Take Action Against Live Exports

What you can do:

1. Email Tony Burke (Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) or your State Minister for Agriculture, or local MP.
2. Contribute to public debate about live exports through talk back radio, letters to the editor, blogs, social networking.
3. Talk to your friends about this important issue and encourage them to get behind Australian animals.

Eid Al-adha is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims throughout the world. Every year, Australian sheep make the long and arduous journey to the Middle East to be sacrificed during this commemoration. This is one of the worst times for Australian animals exported overseas. Many are sold for individual slaughter, which means we lose total control over how they are handled, transported then killed. Despite this, the Australian government continues to send them there. In fact, every year, Australia sends around four million sheep to be slaughtered overseas.

With your support however, these animals will have a voice. Please join the RSPCA in its condemnation of this unnecessary trade and send a clear message to the Australian Government that it is not OK to treat animals this way.

The RSPCA has long been a vocal advocate of increasing Australia's meat exports, eventually replacing the live export trade all together. It's realistic and achievable. Australia already successfully exports Halal-certified meat to all countries we supply live animals to. Increased meat exports mean more jobs in Australia. We have the capacity to ramp up the meat trade and secure farmer livelihoods for the long term; we just need a government with the foresight and the political courage to take the first step.