More than 200 animal welfare activists converged on Sydney Town Hall today to protest against the governments new live export regulations which they labelled as tokenistic and ineffectual.
NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge said the government had failed to live up to the communitys expectations to stamp out cruelty in the live export trade.
The so-called supply chain assurances do not protect our animals and do not stop the cruelty, he told the crowd. At its highest, it encourages the use of stunning the animals before theyre killed in Indonesian abattoirs.