The average person takes 4 seconds to do this. Yet the Australian government has decided to deliberate over this question for 2 months.

Meanwhile...

Meanwhile thousands of Australian cattle shipped to Indonesia prior to the suspension are still being brutally killed using these cruel boxes. And in as little as two weeks, the Gillard Government may resume the live cattle trade, sending thousands more animals to this brutal fate.

Not only are these boxes present in Indonesian abattoirs — they have also been installed by the live export industry (and subsidised by Australian taxpayers) in countries including Malaysia, Libya and Brunei.

Animals Australia’s most recent investigation revealed the full truth about the Mark 1 box: Australian animals with their legs tied, tripping over and falling violently onto a sloping concrete slab. In their attempts to escape they repeatedly slammed their heads against the concrete, and were then forcibly restrained while their throats were cut multiple times. This same cruelty is occurring nightly in other countries as well. For all those animals exported from Australia, there is no time to wait. They cannot plead for mercy. Please send a message on their behalf.