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February 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Australian Greens have renewed their call for a ban of live exports following new footage showing the inappropriate slaughter of cattle in Indonesian abattoirs.
ABC Television on Tuesday aired footage that showed workers slitting the throats of cattle without stunning them first and cutting animals up while still alive.
The cattle are believed to have been exported from Australia.
Agriculture department officials are investigating whether the cattle are Australian and if the slaughterhouses are part of its approved abattoir system.
Greens senator Lee Rhiannon says the only way to end cruel slaughter practices is to ban the live export trade.
“We don’t have confidence in the present system,” she told ABC Television on Wednesday.
Senator Rhiannon said a total ban would not cause economic harm in Australia because it would result in the reopening of local abattoirs.
About 40,000 meat industry jobs have been lost since the 1980s, when abattoirs in the area closed because of the live export trade.
“So the economics benefits can come back to Australia,” Senator Rhiannon said.
Live cattle exports to Indonesia were banned for two months in 2011 in the wake of footage showing cruel treatment of cattle.
Live Exports Council CEO Alison Penfold dismissed Senator Rhiannon’s comments as naive but agreed that the footage was distressing.
Ms Penfold said the live export industry had been an important part of Australia’s agricultural sector for more than a century and she believed new regulations governing live exports are working.
“There are big economic benefits to people right across northern Australia,” she told ABC Radio.
“There is a process to identify, isolate and fix any activities that do not meet the standards of the new regulatory framework.
“And the industry and exporters are committed to take corrective activity if (an) investigation finds that needs to be done.”
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