AGRICULTURE NEWS - The support expressed by the farming sector, and in particular the Red Meat Producers’ Organisation’s (RPO), for the live export of sheep by sea, has been met with sharp criticism from the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA).
The RPO, together with Agri SA and the Red Meat Industry Forum (RMIF), recently announced that they were in favour of further live shipboard sheep exports from South Africa by Kuwaiti company, Al Mawashi, to predominantly Muslim markets in both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
This was after two animal health and welfare experts, contracted by the RMIF, recently inspected Al Mawashi’s holding feedlot and livestock transport ship in the Eastern Cape.
Read the full article here on the Caxton publication, Farmer's Weekly
