The tourist country Australia
Australia has many magnificent tourist attractions like the Sydney Opera House, the Great Barrier Reef, the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (Ayers Rock), the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Blue Mountains National Park, Melbourne, Bondi Beach, Daintree National Park, Fraser Island, Whitsunday Island, Purnululu National Park, Kakadu National Park, the Great Ocean Road, Broome and the Kimberley region.
Australia has also many secrets that very few tourists know about. Before you decide to visit Australia as a tourist, please take a moment to find out whether this is a country whose economy and values you want to support. They way innocent and defenseless beings are treated tells a lot about a society. These news stories give you some information on how animals are treated in Australia.
Please note that many of the images in the articles are very graphic.
Australia has also many secrets that very few tourists know about. Before you decide to visit Australia as a tourist, please take a moment to find out whether this is a country whose economy and values you want to support. They way innocent and defenseless beings are treated tells a lot about a society. These news stories give you some information on how animals are treated in Australia.
Please note that many of the images in the articles are very graphic.
NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA
17 February 2015, The Telegraph
In Australia greyhound trainer use live rabbits, possums and piglets to make their hounds more bloodthirsty and supposedly better racers. The live baits are flung around as a lure for hours, and get bitten and killed by the hounds. In a video a trainer instructs his colleague how to smash a baby possum’s head to be able to use its mother as a live bait. The greyhound racing in itself is abhorrent – the greyhounds live in horrible conditions and are frequently mistreated and many run to their deaths when injured during a race. 18,000 dogs are destroyed annually in Australia because they can’t run fast enough.
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11 July 2014, The Guardian
Sheep are severely abused on Australian farms. In videos filmed by the animal rights group Peta, the terrified animals are roughly handled, punched in the face, stamped upon, and beaten with hammers. Shearers are paid by volume which encourages fast, rough work which cuts the bodies of sheep. Australia produces 80% of the world's wool.
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Sheep are severely abused on Australian farms. In videos filmed by the animal rights group Peta, the terrified animals are roughly handled, punched in the face, stamped upon, and beaten with hammers. Shearers are paid by volume which encourages fast, rough work which cuts the bodies of sheep. Australia produces 80% of the world's wool.
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16 October 2013, abc
The greyhound racing industry in Australia is huge, and to increase profits the racing dogs are commonly drugged with substances such as cocaine, amphetamines, caffeine and EPO. There’s a massive overbreading of dogs, and about 17,000 dogs are killed each year, some by very cruel methods.
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The greyhound racing industry in Australia is huge, and to increase profits the racing dogs are commonly drugged with substances such as cocaine, amphetamines, caffeine and EPO. There’s a massive overbreading of dogs, and about 17,000 dogs are killed each year, some by very cruel methods.
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13 February 2008, The Independent
Australia is the world's largest exporter of live animals sending more than four million live sheep every year to the Middle East. The animals are confined to cramped, poorly lit dens, and the journey takes 32 days. During the transport, the animals have to live in their excrement, and many of the animals die of suffocation, disease, heat exhaustion, hunger or stress. Those who survive the journey will be killed at a slaughterhous a few weeks later, often by very cruel methods. The reason for the totally unneccessary live exports is the fraudulent claim that the animals are home-reared.
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Australia is the world's largest exporter of live animals sending more than four million live sheep every year to the Middle East. The animals are confined to cramped, poorly lit dens, and the journey takes 32 days. During the transport, the animals have to live in their excrement, and many of the animals die of suffocation, disease, heat exhaustion, hunger or stress. Those who survive the journey will be killed at a slaughterhous a few weeks later, often by very cruel methods. The reason for the totally unneccessary live exports is the fraudulent claim that the animals are home-reared.
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