Festive_Felicitations
Well-Known Member
Given the size of the out back, lack of fences and general facilities traqualising and 'humanely' destroying the brumbies is just not viable. It would be very easy to tranq a horse, then loose them. Supposing that horse then fell whiel drugged and broke a leg? Your condemming them to a slow and painful death.
I've met and interrogated one of the 'shooters' in the NT, they aim for the head (prefered shot, but hard) or heart region. They use high powered rifles that will cause a lot of damage and therefore kill as quickly as possible. Sure not every shot is going to be a perfect instant kill but they have to maintain a 95% plus 'kill rate' and a monitored on the job.
Having also been around corraled wild horses waiting to be sold/shot and the sheer smell of stress/fear in the yards I honestly believe shooting is the best option for Australia.
With the live export from Aus, as I understand the price paid to the farmers for the stock is determined by the condition they are in on boarding the ship. The whole fee may not be paid till they arrive.
Unfortunately the numbers are such that the buisness run on a erm 'margin'. So if they want 3500 sheep they buy 3750 on the principal that they will have a loss rate of X %. There are enough sheep/cattle exported to do this, and I presume that they don't care about the ones that die.
If meat can be certified as organic, and products as nut free etc, I sure that the Middle East can learn to accept meat certified as butchered 'halal' in Aus so that nothing has to be exported live.
But no country is going to insist that they accept their meat allready butched as long as they have the lovely political trump card of controling the worlds oil stocks... (thats my cynical opinion)
I've met and interrogated one of the 'shooters' in the NT, they aim for the head (prefered shot, but hard) or heart region. They use high powered rifles that will cause a lot of damage and therefore kill as quickly as possible. Sure not every shot is going to be a perfect instant kill but they have to maintain a 95% plus 'kill rate' and a monitored on the job.
Having also been around corraled wild horses waiting to be sold/shot and the sheer smell of stress/fear in the yards I honestly believe shooting is the best option for Australia.
With the live export from Aus, as I understand the price paid to the farmers for the stock is determined by the condition they are in on boarding the ship. The whole fee may not be paid till they arrive.
Unfortunately the numbers are such that the buisness run on a erm 'margin'. So if they want 3500 sheep they buy 3750 on the principal that they will have a loss rate of X %. There are enough sheep/cattle exported to do this, and I presume that they don't care about the ones that die.
If meat can be certified as organic, and products as nut free etc, I sure that the Middle East can learn to accept meat certified as butchered 'halal' in Aus so that nothing has to be exported live.
But no country is going to insist that they accept their meat allready butched as long as they have the lovely political trump card of controling the worlds oil stocks... (thats my cynical opinion)