Australia suspended live cattle export to Indonesia Wednesday for up to 6 months over issues of how the animals were being treated.
The suspension in exports comes when pictures of animals at slaughterhouses shocked Australians and led to a public outcry over the trade, AFP reports. the photographs were from an investigation into the slaughterhouses done by Australia's ABC broadcaster.
The trade, estimated at Aus $318 million (US$340 million) a year, won't resume till Indonesia implements safe guards that finish the brutal slaughter of the animals.
"We got to establish sufficient safeguards to make sure exporters offer verifiable and clear offer chain assurance up to, and as well as, the purpose of slaughter for each consignment that leaves Australia," Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig told AFP.
"I did not need to place a timeframe on it (but) this suspension is up to 6 months. it's necessary that business use that amount to figure through and are available up with offer chain assurance."
Last week, Canberra suspended exports to those slaughterhouses shown within the broadcast documentary, however Wednesday it moved to create a blanket ban, BBC reports.
The documentary showed steers being whipped, beat and slashed and being in a very state of terrible pain before slaughter, it states.
Indonesia is that the biggest marketplace for Australian live cattle, the Wall Street Journal reports. Indonesia's growing population, expanding economy and rising incomes are leading individuals to Westernize their diets and eat additional pork, it states.
In response, Jakarta said Wednesday it might get additional beef from New Zealand and wasn't however happy that a video showing brutal abuse of Australian cattle in Indonesian slaughterhouses was authentic, Agence France-Presse reports.
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