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By Michael Slovanos
The people of the cattle industry and the transport of Western Australia will direct a convoy of protest trucks that are severely interrupting traffic in Perth today, March 28.
The protest is part of the Keep the Sheep Grassroots movement that aims to take measures against the prohibition of the Albanese government of live sheep exports that enters into force on May 1, 2028.
But the organizers of the protest say that a few hours of interruption in the workday of the people of Perth is nothing compared to the devastation that the prohibition of the export industry of the living advantage will have in the agricultural families of WA and their communities.
“More than that, it will have consequences that will damage truckers, agents of values, shellings and sports clubs in WA cities such as Kojonup, Wagin and Kulin,” the protests organizers point out.
“The nations that buy our sheep abroad are concerned about the ban. They change with Australia for our upper and high quality sheep.
“The prohibition will not create demand for cold meat or in cash, it will simply push trade to countries with much lower animal welfare standards.”
Then, the “moral argument” of the Federal Government and groups such as Animals Australia and Peta (people for the ethical treatment of animals) is that prohibiting exports of sheep lives stops an important source of animal cruelty.
There is no argument that shipping and murder of animals at an industrial scale is not a beautiful business. It produces large amounts of excrement during transport and blood and guts during the murder process.
Animal liberationists also oppose the fact that Muslims cut the throats of living animals. Well, Australian sheep breeders, most of whom are not Muslims, have been doing the same for the time they have been killing animals for personal consumption.
By the way, the murder of animals for food was given for the first time the moral sanction in Genesis 9: 3: “Everything that lives and movements will be food for you; as I gave you green plants, now I give you all things.”
The slaughter of sheep by throat cuts goes back from a very long path and custom and moral teaching between the Hebrews, long before Muslims, was that the blood should drain from the flesh before it is cooked and consumed.
Hebrew laws to correctly handle the blood originated in Genesis 9: 4–6: “But you will not eat flesh with their life, that is, his blood. And for your vital blood I will require a calculation: from each beast I will require it and of man. Of his neighbor I will require unnens for the life of man”, who spills the blood, by man, by man, his blood, for God The man in his image will require. ”
The context of the passage is where God first allows Noah and his descendants to eat animal meat, while prohibiting them with blood, highlighting the fact that the animal’s blood is their life.
This same teaching was later encoded for Israel in Leviticus 17: 10-16, where God explicitly prohibits blood consumption. The reason for this command is in Leviticus 17:11: “Because the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement of your souls, because it is the blood that makes the atonement for life.”
So, the moral teaching of the Old Testament is that the blood of humans and animals is sacred because it represents, and literally gives life. Then, in obedience to the mosaic and levitic law, the animals were sacrificed daily and their blood sprinkled on the altar of the temple to atone for the sins of the Israelites.
But even before the delivery of the law of Moses, the Hebrews in Egypt were ordered by God to kill the lambs and sprinkle the blood on the door posts and the lintels of their homes. They were also ordered to roast and eat the lamb. “They will eat the meat that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, they will eat. They do not eat anything raw or boiled in water, but roasted, the head with their legs and its internal parts.” (Exodus 12: 8-9)
So that was the Old Testament, what about the New Testament? In addition to the orthodox teaching that Christ is the incarnation of the “sacrifice lamb”, there were some brief moral/ethical instructions on the feeding of flesh in the New Testament.
The sacrifices of daily animals ended in AD70 with the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem, but before that, the first Christians and the Hebrew Christian converts had to deal with the problem of eating meat, which was prominent in the mind of the Hebrews but not with the Gentiles.
The apostles discussed the subject and James made the following recommendation recorded in the Book of Acts (15: 19-20) “It is my judgment, therefore, we should not cause problems to the Gentiles who are returning to God. We must write and tell them that they refrain from food contaminated by idols, of sexual immorality, of the meat of strangulated animals and of the blood.”
Later, St Paul followed this advice in the 1st Corinthians 8 by pointing out that while the believers were free to eat meat and that the idols essentially meant nothing, they had to be sensitive to the other Hebrew believers who fought with the problem. “Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become an obstacle to the weak,” he wrote.
Therefore, any alleged “moral case” against the murder and food of the flesh, such as those beliefs of the liberationists of animals against livestock agriculture and the meat industry, have a very unstable terrain. They have to deny about 4000 years of biblical teaching on the subject.
They are also placed in the position of the executors of some supposedly new and enlightened moral code, without realizing that the apostles themselves warned against the false teachers who “prohibit marriage and require abstinence of certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving for those who believe and know the truth.” (Itimothy 4)
In fact, the anti-carne industry lobby is essentially promoting a new moral code for a new world order based on the new sacred commandment of net emissions of zero under the “new covenant” of the 2030 Agenda.
The new God is nature (or Mother Earth of Gaia) and cattle and farmers are portrayed in some way as enemies of the environment. The supposed solution? East insect protein and “release” the “fragile landscape” from cattle and sheep helmets and the atmosphere of their methane emissions.
This same lobby will tell you that they are in a great humanitarian mission to “save the planet” and “science”, of course, it is guiding them. Religious nuances are obvious, despite the attractiveness for science, or is it “scientific”?
The only solid moral case of the anti-Steep export lobby is that animals are not cruelly treated. Without a doubt, this has happened in the first days of export of live sheep, but it is something that has been addressed. It is essentially a matter of improving technology.
The only other valid argument, which is economics, is if it is better that farmers have all the sheep killed in Australia and meat sent to markets as the Middle East.
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