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Essay On Australia Export Live Cattle For Slaughter

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A) Should Australia export live cattle for slaughter?
Arguments for:
• Benefits the economy, supports thousands of Australian jobs and is helping to provide protein to some of the world’s poorest people across Asia and the Middle East. Australia’s beef cattle exports are wroth $1.35 billion and the sector employs more than 10,000 people, including many Indigenous Australians.
• Animal welfare conditions overseas would decline if Australian stopped exporting livestock. Australia is the only country in the world that actively works in overseas markets to improve animal welfare conditions. Approximately 95% of Australian cattle in Indonesia are now stunned pre-slaughter, up from less than 10% in 2011.
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