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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

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The livestock carrier Bahijah berthed at Fremantle port, Western Australia, 2018. (Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
April 8, 2024, 1:45 pm
Controversial shipment of livestock reaches Israel from Australia after months-long odyssey
Animal rights groups slam both governments for allowing the consignment of some 14,000 sheep and calves to sail after original journey was diverted by Houthi missile attacks
By Sue Surkes
A live shipment of animals bound for fattening and slaughter in Israel arrives at the port of Eilat on the Red Sea coast on June 19, 2023. (Omri Omessi)
July 3, 2023, 1:06 am
Over 500,000 calves, lambs have arrived in notorious live shipments so far this year
While meat industry insists ships meet regulations, activists say treatment of animals imported for fattening and slaughter violates animal welfare laws
By Sue Surkes
Deli authority Sy Ginsberg at the Stage Deli in West Bloomfield, Michigan, September 13, 2022. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
December 3, 2022, 4:22 am
Deli tycoon Sy Ginsberg talks nosh-talgia, dishes on future of Jewish-style eateries
After starting at Detroit’s iconic Lou’s in 1960 at the age of 15, the Motown restaurateur’s eponymous brand now distributes over 150,000 pounds of meat a week nationwide
By Yaakov Schwartz
Alternative beef burgers made of plant-based materials by Redefine Meat. (Courtesy, Redefine Meat)
July 30, 2021, 11:29 am
At sizzling event, Israel’s Redefine Meat launches its 3-D cow alternative
With slogans like ‘A whole different animal,’ and ‘Precisely the same, entirely different,’ startup unveils its high-end, plant-based 3-D printed products at Tel Aviv tasting
By Sue Surkes
Sheep being shipped for fattening and slaughter in multi-story vessels. (YouTube screenshot)
July 7, 2021, 9:09 pm
Record number of calves and lambs shipped to Israel for fattening, slaughter
More than half a million animals transported to country in first six months of 2021, up 59% over same period last year
By Sue Surkes
Human brain development and eating habits (Dr. Miki Ben-Dor)
April 4, 2021, 5:20 pm
For 2 million years, humans ate meat and little else — study
Tel Aviv University researchers says Stone Age humans were apex predators, only moved to more plant-based diet 85,000 years ago
By ToI Staff
Chicken in crates and on the floor at the Off Hagalil poultry processor, in footage aired on February 2, 2020. (Screen capture: Channel 20)
February 2, 2021, 11:10 pm
Whistleblower footage shows filthy conditions at Galilee poultry plant
Ministry fires vet training to be inspector after he complains of Off HaGalil employees picking carcasses off floor and throwing them back onto production line
By Sue Surkes
Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)
August 10, 2020, 5:38 pm
WHO expert on lessons of COVID-19: ‘Live animal trade has to stop’
Australian epidemiologist warns that live shipment of animals for fattening, slaughter, is ‘getting to a stage when it can’t be safe’; Israel continues to import
By Sue Surkes
Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)
January 16, 2020, 11:05 pm
Calves survive Australian bushfires just to be shipped to Israel for slaughter
New video footage of cows who made it through the flames and were sent to Eilat draws fresh criticism of intense suffering endured during live shipping
By Sue Surkes and Omer Sharvit
A photo of Mike Bloomberg as a meatball tweeted January 14, 2020, by Bloomberg's social media team. (Twitter)
January 15, 2020, 10:00 am
Democrats gave you a debate. Bloomberg gave you a meatball
The New York mayor’s social media team has fun during the TV debate from which he was excluded, and has confirmed the Twitter feed was not hacked
By Ron Kampeas
A cow on a live transport ship lying in filth because extra sawdust could not cope with the hot and humid conditions on board. (From a presentation by Agriculture Ministry veterinarian inspector Dr Lauren Stein at a closed conference held in Europe in mid-June, published by Animals formerly Anonymous for Animal Rights) on June 24, 2019.
June 24, 2019, 5:08 pm
In first, Agriculture Ministry admits to cruel conditions on animal transports
Veterinary inspector says ‘common problems’ include injury and suffocation from overcrowding, high temperatures, poor ventilation
By Sue Surkes
A cow carcass washes up to the shore of the Jaffa dog beach on June 9, 2019. (Screen capture/YouTube)
June 9, 2019, 7:58 pm
For second time in a week, cow carcass washes up on Tel Aviv area beach
Onlookers in Jaffa say they first thought calf was a human being and rushed to move it to shore before realizing it was a long-dead animal
By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes
The rotting carcass of a cow, possibly thrown overboard from a ship carrying live animals to Israel for fattening and slaughter, washed up onto a beach in Tel Aviv, June 1, 2019. (Or Keren)
June 2, 2019, 9:08 am
Cow carcass washes up on Tel Aviv beach, horrifying bathers
Environmental group says cow possibly thrown overboard from ship carrying live animals to Israel for slaughter
By Sue Surkes
Screenshot from Australian TV's "60 Minutes" broadcast about live shipments, "Sheep, Ships and Videotape," shown April 8, 2018.
November 15, 2018, 1:03 am
Knesset votes to stop live animal transports within three years
Bill by Likud MK clears preliminary reading unopposed. Controversial shipments of lambs and calves for fattening, slaughter in Israel to be replaced by chilled meat imports
By Sue Surkes
Protesters demonstrate in Tel Aviv against live shipments of animals for fattening and slaughter in Israel, April 28, 2018. (Adi Avikzer)
July 11, 2018, 6:57 pm
Agriculture minister protests gov’t-backed bill to stop live animal shipments
As Netanyahu and Kahlon throw support behind legislation, Uri Ariel warns restrictions would lead to layoffs, huge meat price rises
By Sue Surkes
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