K Rudd's take on Live Exports

I received the usual xeroxed reply from the office of K Rudd after sending an email protesting the resumption of live exports. Below are the links mentioned in this reply. The letter itself is fairly standard stuff about how much the industry is worth, what it's doing to educate the "ignorant, poor " in the middle east, blah,blah. What I thought was interesting is their reasoning that if we don't supply live animals to other countries, they are "likely to source live animals from elsewhere". While this is probable, how about we clean up our own backyard and set an example for these other countries to follow. Profiting off the misery of animals is not fine, even if "everyone else is doing it."

Australian Standards for Livestock Export

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry