Live sheep ship sails unhindered
Timaru reporter The live sheep carrier El Cordero took on 23,000 ram lambs in Timaru yesterday and sailed for Saudi Arabia last evening. Up to 30 protesting meat workers, many from Southland and Otago, stood at the gates leading on to the port’s North Mole wharf throughout the loading. They confined their protest to occasional jeers and placard waving and the loading proceeded without a hitch. A union spokesman, Mr Ken Anderson, said the aim of the protest was to make the public aware
that meat workers were still strongly opposed to the live sheep trade. The sheep were transported from the feedlot of New Zealand Agricultural Exports, Ltd, at Rangitata where they had been adapting to the pellet diet they will receive during the shipment. In Timaru they joined the 15,000 lambs already in the El Cordero which had been loaded in Napier earlier this week.
Agricultural Exports plans further shipments to Saudi Arabia in the next few months and already has contracts to supply 250,000 lambs for the Haj religious festival.
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