Live Export Trade | Reuben Brand

Live Sheep Export: Cruel, Ruining Local Industry and Exporting Jobs

July 7, 2010

My following article regarding the live export trade from Australia to the Middle East was published today at the Window Dressers Arms – it was also re-published at The Daily Bludge, where it made headlines on the front page. Live export is not only cruelly exporting Australian animals; it is crippling...

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Mayor of Fremantle calls to end live export – Uganda bans it completely

Articles, Australia, Blog, Middle East

May 17, 2010

The following is my latest piece regarding the live export trade – it was published today on the Humane Chain website: By Reuben Brand Pressure is mounting for Australia to make a stand and put an end to live animal export as the Government of Uganda takes the lead and announces a total ban of …...

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Live export: Crippling Australia’s Meat Processing Industry

Australia, Blog

April 20, 2010

Below is a video I shot and produced for the AMIEU and WSPA Live export campaign. It is a series of interviews I conducted with Australian Meat Workers who are now either unemployed or or have had their shifts cut right back due to the live export trade taking business offshore. Broadcast at Parliament House...

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Over 63,000 people say NO to live export!

Australia, Blog, Middle East

April 19, 2010

WSPA and The Body Shop teamed up and initiated a campaign aimed at raising awareness and putting an end to the inherently cruel live export trade. During the month long campaign (March 15 to April 11) staff at every Body Shop store throughout Australia informed customers about the cruelty these animals...

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My qoutes in the Daily Tele

Australia, Blog, Middle East, News

March 10, 2010

The Daily Telegraph published the following article regarding today’s forum at Parliament House: Calls to end Australia’s ‘inhumane’ sheep export * By Andrew Drummond * From: AAP * March 10, 2010 2:56PM IN years to come, Australians will view the nation’s “inhumane”...

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Live export, it’s just cruel

Australia, Blog, Middle East, News

March 10, 2010

Below is a video I put together regarding investigations I undertook within livestock markets and abattoirs in the Middle East. Included in the video are interviews I conducted with Associate Professor Paul McGreevy, veterinary Behaviourist, Dr Manuela Trueby and Murshid F.A. Ali ElSenossi, Islamic Scholar...

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Animal Cruelty Investigation Launched at Parliament House

Australia, Blog, Middle East, News

March 10, 2010

Today I launched an investigation I did in the Middle East regarding the live export trade from Australia. The forum was held at Parliament House in Sydney and opened by Lord Mayor Clover Moore. Over the past seven months I have been working closely with the World Society for the protection of Animals (WSPA)...

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NSW Parliament House Forum

Australia, Blog, Middle East, News

March 10, 2010

Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore is hosting a Humane Chain forum to highlight the ongoing inhumane and economically damaging live animal export industry in Australia. The event will also present evidence collected during WSPA’s recent investigation into the mistreatment of Australian sheep. Investigators...

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