Sheep Sranded @ see

[Guest Babybear]

I jsut herd a snippet of news about some sheep stuck out at see an noone is claiming them or wants them , so Mr howard wants them to aussie , under strick quirentean...

anyone herd anythin more then that in soild form?

man woudnt we all be fucked if that some crazzy barsted has put somethin into the sheep an when they get here Fuck up all our meat or even spread a virus , Freaky shit for a early Thursday morn hehe

[boulder]

Sheep set for burial at sea

Luke McIlveen and Alison Rehn

October 9, 2003

 

 

MORE than 50,000 sheep aboard the Cormo Express would be slaughtered, minced and dumped at sea under a plan to be considered by Federal Cabinet today

 

A top-level meeting of Department of Agriculture officials in Canberra yesterday drafted a plan to kill the sheep on board and dump their minced remains into the ocean.

 

It will be one of three options to go before Cabinet following intensive lobbying by representatives of the livestock and agriculture industries that are opposed to returning the animals to Australia because of quarantine risks.

 

The sheep have now been at sea for 64 days, unable to be offloaded in Saudi Arabia as planned because officials there ruled they had unacceptable levels of the disease scabby mouth.

 

A spokesman for the Prime Minister yesterday conceded slaughter at sea was a definite option.

 

A team of bureaucrats is preparing for the task, which would require shooting each of the sheep in the head with a bolt gun.

 

The sheep would then be put through a giant mincer fixed to the ship's hull and the remains squirted into the sea. The whole process could take more than three weeks to complete and government sources said the ship would have to be reconfigured to deal with the massive task of disposing of the carcasses.

 

Two other options will be considered by Cabinet ? offloading the sheep in Iraq or Afghanistan, and returning them to Australia for slaughter for domestic consumption.

 

The Iraq option, crafted by officials from the Departments of Agriculture and Foreign Affairs and Trade, faces logistical difficulties.

 

Returning them to Australia is opposed by the livestock industry because of the risk to the $1 billion live export industry of contamination by foreign disease.

 

Supporters of the scheme argue that the sheep have not set foot on foreign soil and the risk is low, but its opponents fear that the sheep may have contracted illness from fodder they have been eating. The fodder has been sourced from several countries in the Middle East.

 

Thousands more sheep are estimated to die on any return voyage.

 

Mr Howard and Agriculture Minister Warren Truss have repeatedly refused to give the order to slaughter the sheep at sea.

 

Mr Howard has previously ruled out slaughtering the sheep.

 

Asked last week whether the sheep should be slaughtered and thrown overboard, Mr Howard said: "It is just quite impractical and horrendously difficult to slaughter them at sea."

 

A series of crisis meetings have been called in Canberra today to consider the slaughter proposal.

 

A spokesman for the Department of Agriculture said yesterday the slaughter-at-sea option had never been ruled out.

The Courier-Mail

[Guest Babybear]

thanks boulder , ewww scabby mouth sheep

[boulder]

The Government can give them to me or part there of.

Would be a multi millionaire by febuary next year. The disease runs its coarse and the sheep recover (cold sores).

[Chev]

PM rules out killing sheep

By Shane Wright

October 9, 2003

 

PRIME Minister John Howard today ruled out slaughtering 52,000 Australian sheep at sea, effectively consigning the animals to a two-week trip back home.

 

Mr Howard said it was his intention to bring the sheep home if a new buyer for the animals could not be found.

 

The sheep have been stuck aboard the MV Cormo Express for more than eight weeks after they were turned away from Saudi Arabia over disease concerns.

 

The Cormo Express, in the port of Kuwait, has been further delayed because of problems getting enough pellet food for the animals.

 

It is now likely to leave port by Saturday, and will start its slow journey back to Australia.

 

Three teams within the Department of Agriculture are working on finding a buyer for the sheep, looking at killing the animals at sea or bringing them home.

 

But Mr Howard said he had serious concerns about a slaughter on the high seas.

 

"All of the advice I have is that that is impractical and my current intention and the current intention of the government I can tell you is clearly to bring them home," he told radio 2GB.

 

"I can't see the circumstances in which they could be slaughtered at sea."

 

Agriculture Minister Warren Truss said there were big logistical problems with killing the sheep at sea.

 

He said it could take up to two months to kill all the animals, shooters would have to be flown on to the Cormo Express, and a second boat would be needed to store the refrigerated carcases.

 

Mr Truss said by bringing the sheep home, authorities could offset the costs of purchasing the animals from their Saudi owner, feeding the animals and their transportation.

 

"Bringing them back to Australia and perhaps recovering some of the costs through sale of meat is an attractive option financially," he told radio 3AW.

 

The Australian Veterinary Association is one of a range of organisations to have raised concerns about returning the sheep, claiming they could expose the domestic livestock industry to a range of exotic diseases.

 

Mr Truss said tests so far showed the sheep were disease-free and in good condition.

 

"We'd certainly need to have effective quarantine measures and work is being done on that," he said.

 

"The sheep, while they've been in Kuwait have been examined by a number of vets and have been found to be fit and in good condition."

 

More than 30 countries have been contacted about buying the sheep, with only three or four still realistic options.

 

Mr Truss said negotiations with those countries would continue, even as the Cormo Express left port and started heading towards Australia.

 

Afghanistan still remains a possible option, although Australia has yet to gain permission from Iran to transport the ship through that country.

 

Other possible buyers include Indonesia, which is already the biggest purchaser of Australian live cattle, and Malaysia.

 

AAP

Just put the poor bastards out of their misery, if they're as bad as media reports suggest

Edited October 9, 2003 by chev81

[white_cluster]

I'm sure theres plenty of arabs willing to eat that shit man.

 

I hate these stupid dickheads who watch bullshit A Current Affairs reports then go protest over animal exports, like fuck, is the death of some fucking sheep bred to be slaughtered such a sad thing, they where gonna die anyway, Do you think they enjoy life anyway?? sheep are stupid fucks, I bet they dont even notice they are neck deep in shit man. They should give em to some poor starving fuckers, get the fucking protesters off there backs so they can get back to business.

Like there conditions aren't much diff to a piggery really, just that stupid a current affair carried on about it for ratings cos they know the viewers are all retarded, trying to show arabs mistreating livestock, man, have you seen african natives with there cattle, they sexually molest them, slowly bleed them alive from nicks in the jugular, there just animals to eat. Have you seen what aliens do to cattle?? them fellas are meant to be way more advanced than us, so we must be on the right path.

[budsta]

News Just In: Sheep Crisis Solved

 

The crisis of the ship containing 50,000 Australian sheep in the

Persian Gulf has been solved.

 

The ship has been redirected to New Zealand and renamed "The Love

Boat".

[pipeman]

hey you know in South Africa the joke is that all Australians are sheep fuckers. go figure.

[lokm8]

How fucked is Howard.

 

Seriously , why doesn't he just put the blame on the Suadi's and their religion.

Who gives a shit if they are 'dumb animals', they poor bastards are going thru fkn hell on a sad-excuse of a livestock transport ship thats just floating there, while howard wipes his arse and wonders how on earth he can still make some $$$ from this.

You seen the state of them tranport ships ? The fookers cant even work out that , loosing $500, 000 per load because of 'dying animals' gradually amounts to a fuck load more then the immediate repair of the ship so the total losses would be cut by atleast 80%.

 

IMO, this country has fuck-all going for it except for sports, that and getting some faces onto Hollywood. We have just become another country that hasn't got a clue how to make good use of whats on offer in this land. We sell shit for basically fuck all and then buy it back. Our own waters are being raped by the asians who are contracted by the middle east, and what do we do, took two weeks to catch a fishing boat with all our advanced Navy technology.....thats weak, where was the fkn torpedo ???? Blast the fuckers and set an example to all the other pirates waiting to take thir position.

Ill get off that topic though. Back to the sheep.

 

Working @ a veterinary clinic for two years I came across some pretty fucked up animals, be it a sheep or a dog, an animal deserved abit of dignity in death, especially where such conditions could be prevented.

Each to their own.

[boulder]

Sheep face slaughter in Albany

October 12, 2003

 

 

A SHIPLOAD of 52,000 unwanted sheep face slaughter in an Albany abattoir after several more weeks at sea, the Federal Government said yesterday.

 

Agriculture Minister Warren Truss said the MV Cormo Express would probably leave the port of Kuwait tomorrow night and start its journey towards WA.

 

It will head for the Cocos Islands first where it will be resupplied with fodder and veterinary tests will be made.

 

If the animals are free of disease they will be sent to an abattoir near a major port, with Albany the most likely.

 

Farmer groups and some members of the Government backbench have argued against returning the animals to the mainland because of quarantine fears.

 

Mr Truss said more than 1000 blood tests on the animals had already been done, and further tests on sheep which had died, with no signs of exotic diseases.

 

He said the sheep would be checked again once at the Cocos Islands where the Cormo Express would anchor about 10km offshore.

 

The time it would take for the voyage to the Cocos Islands would be ample for any symptoms of possible diseases to develop.

 

"The likelihood of any disease not having manifested itself over that period would give a greater degree of comfort to the Australian industry," he said.

 

"Most of the diseases we are talking about have an incubation period of just a few days."

 

Mr Truss said it was all but impossible to slaughter the animals at sea, as backed by farm groups, the RSPCA and the Australian Veterinary Association.

 

He said the people killing the animals would have to be tied to the ship for their own protection, and carcasses dumped overboard could end up washed ashore.

 

But he said the animals might have to be slaughtered at sea if they were found to be diseased in the coming weeks.

 

Meanwhile, negotiations with countries were continuing to see if they would buy the animals on their way home.

 

"While it's travelling, we'll continue the negotiations with various countries and interested parties, and will obviously divert to whatever port might be appropriate for unloading," Mr Truss said.

 

The cost of the whole saga was beginning to mount, and $6 million was a conservative estimate, he said.

 

About 30 animals a night were dying and, so far, more than 5000 had perished.

 

Opposition Leader Simon Crean called for the Government to release a report on the quarantine risks posed by bringing the sheep back.

 

"It's another report that the Government is sitting on," Mr Crean said.

 

The sheep should never have left the country if there was doubt over whether they would be accepted, he said, and the whole episode had been handled badly.

 

"It's been a debacle ? these sheep went as lambs and they are coming back as mutton, it has taken so long," he said.

 

Prime Minister John Howard denied the Government was sitting on a report and said the Government was "between a rock and a hard place" on the matter.