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The pertinent question is "why live?" Live transports are (for example) the biggest animal welfare issue for kiwi sheep.
by netcan 7y ago
The pertinent question is "why live?" Live transports are (for example) the biggest animal welfare issue for kiwi sheep.
- Lev1a 7y agoBecause of religious BS.
- ruthless_banker 7y agoCareful, you are dangerously close to hate speech.
- zanybear 7y agoI'm assuming because of the way an animal is sacrificed in order to be considered "halal". It would require a large slaughterhouse with the proper setup, which in an 98% orthodox country is not a easy arrangement.
- toomanybeersies 7y agoAbout 25% of red meat exports from New Zealand are halal, and almost every slaughterhouse is capable of halal slaughter. It's actually not particularly difficult to do halal slaughter, the two main requirements are that it is killed with a cut to the throat (common in non-halal slaughter) by a Muslim.
- netcan 7y agoI'm not sure the muslim is a requirement per se, it's just that in practice there's an overseer. Many/most Muslim clerics accept kosher meat as halal, for example, even though the supervision is not necessarily Muslim.
- aivisol 7y agoThis might give some clue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhabihah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhabihah "The slaughter itself must be done by a sane (mentally competent) adult Muslim."
- netcan 7y agoHalal abatoirs are the norm in most Sheep producing parts of Australia/NZ. This is far from unbridgeable. The immediate reason for live exports now is there there's a premium on live sheep, often in the middle east. Anyway, either the exporting or importing country can "ban" live shipping, so if origin and destination countries have different opinions that doesn't mean things can't change. Obviously ban doesn't mean ban, just regulate to the point where transport-to-abatoir doesn't make sense. Obviously breeding stock and such will still travel.