Live trade ban lifted

[Bennymiata]

So this is better than being in a confined space, tied up and terrified, and having your throat cut slowly and struggling for life for a long time until you bleed to death? Or worse than being in a confined space, tied up and terrified, and having your throat cut slowly and struggling for life for a long time until you bleed to death? I'm battling to work out what your point is here.

I guess that my point is that if they stay here, they are still living in poor conditions for a much longer time than they should, and if it's better to wait under these conditions rather than going to be slaughtered.

There is a big cultural difference between the Indonesians and us as far as animal welfare is concerned.
To them, animals are just there to be used and abused, with no regard for their welfare (as it is written in the Quaran), whereas here, we do worry about the feelings, both physical and emotional, of the animals.
When you ship something to another country, you have to be aware of their cultural differences and how your products will be viewed and looked after over there.
It's no good complaining about what they do with your product sometime after you've been shipping them out to them for some years.

[Scotty72]

When you ship something to another country, you have to be aware of their cultural differences and how your products will be viewed and looked after over there.
It's no good complaining about what they do with your product sometime after you've been shipping them out to them for some years.

I guess that is one of the arguments for suggesting we end the live trade.

Should we let $$$ buy off our humaneness: and if so, in which other areas are we willing to sell our conscience?

Clearly, at least some in, the industry think we should.

Scotty