Pledge your support to end live animal exports

Dear friend,

Did you see last night's Four Corners, with the most shocking footage ever uncovered of Australian animals being buried alive as a result of the live export trade? If it didn't convince Australia that the time has come to end live animal exports, nothing will.

Despite hundreds of thousands signing petitions and tens of thousands hitting the streets, the old parties still haven't pledged to end live animal exports. So let's talk to them in the only language they understand: votes.

Pledge your support to end live animal exports.

'Another Bloody Business', 4 Corners, ABC 5 November 2012

The Greens have a bill in both houses of Parliament, and an open invitation to Labor and the Coalition to get it passed. Greens Senator and animal welfare spokesperson Lee Rhiannon has been working hard to build support and keep the pressure up. Can you help by taking the animal exports pledge?

By mid-morning, millions of Australians will have seen what many of us saw on the TV tonight: Australian sheep being bulldozed by the dozen; their throats slit in a fashion most of us can hardly bear to watch, some still breathing. We can't turn back the clock to save the Australian animals that have already been tortured. But we can make sure it never happens again.

At the end of last night's 4 Corners episode, Labor Minister Joe Ludwig failed to guarantee that the shocking treatment of our animals in Pakistan would never happen again. Let's change his mind: can you pledge to support the Greens' bill to ban live animal exports and then ask your friends to join you?

Every year, millions of animals are shipped from Australian shores to places beyond the reach of our law and animal welfare standards. Many animals don't survive the journey - and those who disembark alive are at risk of appalling treatment and painful, prolonged deaths.

Incredibly, 4 Corners revealed that Australian animal exporters are seeking to expand this dangerous trade. But today we have a chance to help end it forever. The Greens in Parliament have pursued responsible action to end the live export trade. We can have a win-win here: we can reduce animal suffering and create thousands of jobs across regional Australia.

Let's leave the old parties with no uncertainty by building a movement of tens of thousands of Australians pledging support to end the live animal export trade.

I'll keep you updated with the progress of our bill as this issue unfolds over the course of this month. In the meantime, please share the pledge with your friends and family. It could give us the momentum we need to pass crucial legislation to finally end this trade.

Yours sincerely,

Christine

P.S. The next few days provide a crucial window of opportunity to finally end live animal exports, but we can't get our legislation passed without a major shift in the attitude of the two old parties. There's only one thing they're more scared of than a 4 Corners expose - and that's the possibility that people will switch their vote based on their compassion for the animals we are responsible for. Take the animal exports pledge here.

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