Australia to phase out live sheep trade by 2028

The first live sheep export was in 1845, Mauritius and Singapore were the first to accept our sheep.
We export to at least 17 countries including Vietnam, Israel, Qatar, Lebanon, China, Turkey and Russia, to name a few.
Personally I feel pleased that the live sheep export trade will come to an end.
Imagine being a sheep on a ship ladened with up to 85,000 other sheep. Being loaded onto the ship at the height of summer, a 3 - 4 week trip with no respite.
When the ships are being loaded, Fremantle bears the brunt of the odours, for as long as it takes to load the shipment. Unpleasant yes, what would the sheep say if they could talk to humans?

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fanuc2013 · 51-55, F

That is assigning human feelings to animals, a Disneyfication so to speak. A sheep knows no difference if he is in the hold of a ship, or in the bedroom of a mansion!

Thrust · 56-60, M

@fanuc2013 they will sell them to Wales as mail order brides!

OogieBoogie · F

@fanuc2013 i find it amazing that you arent aware that animals feel.

And i dont think you know what Disnyfication means - its actually more about how animals are harmed and treated in his animated depictions.
Perhaps you mean anthropomorphizing?

Animals get depressed, scrared, happy, angry and all those feelings we get.
They have brains, nevous systems, an amygdala - which specifically deals with flight and flight type base feelings.

Same as with us.

Denying this reality is really just a defence mechanism of our natures, to ignore inhumane treatment of other creatues who, although cognite at lower levels, still process the same base mental functions and feelings we do.

Gusman · 61-69, M

@fanuc2013 The sheep would be able to differentiate between the stuffed smelly confines of a transport ships hold and the smelly confines of a mansion. 🙂

being · 36-40, F

@fanuc2013 have you ever been close to sheeps ? Animals also get happy under the sunshine and the warmth. That's their natural environment.. especially the sheeps. They're so sweet and sensitive animals ❤

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@being They look sweet and sensitive until you find yourself with a herd of feral sheep led by rams with horns on one side and and a cliff edge with a precipitous and lethal drop down to the Pentland Firth on the other.

being · 36-40, F

@ninalanyon lol