AR-News: No one wants ship full of sheep

[Animalconcerns]

Jakarta, Indonesia -- For more than seven weeks, a ship full of unwanted
sheep has wandered the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf searching for a
country that will accept them.

The ship set out from Australia with nearly 58,000 sheep, all of them bred
for slaughter during the forthcoming month of Ramadan, Islam's holiest
month. But Saudi Arabia, alleging that too many of the animals had a skin
disease, rejected the shipment. Now Australia can't give the sheep away --
even to war- torn Iraq and Afghanistan.
...
In Australia, animal rights advocates say the conditions of the voyage
amount to extreme cruelty to the animals. For the past month, some
prominent activists have urged the government to kill the sheep at sea.

"Those sheep cannot be allowed to suffer like this, and the only solution
is an emergency slaughter," said Dr. Hugh Wirth, president of the
Australian Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

full story:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/13/MN188784.DTL

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