Dr. Lynn Simpson
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Live Animal Export: Dirty deeds, done dead cheap
“One sheep becomes multiple swollen, gelatinous and often gas filled slimy lumps with shedding wool, discoloured skin and eyes, tongues,…
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Live Animal Export: Australian horse transportation by sea for slaughter
Dr Lynn Simpson returns with a depressing look at horses being shipped around the world. Horses at sea? Really? I’ve…
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Live animal export: Recruiting, training, competency and retention
It is overdue that an international training requirement for crews of live export ships is implemented, argues regular Splash contributor,…
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Live Animal Export: Alternate facts
Dr Lynn Simpson enters the ring in the fight between veterinarians and those she describes as spin doctors. In this growing…
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Live Animal Export: International regulations needed for crew, animal and consumer safety
Award winning writer Dr Lynn Simpson warns no ship trading today is perfectly suited to let animals thrive. As with…
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Live Animal Export: Contributing to the global development of superbugs?
Dr Lynn Simpson, the outspoken Australian vet, is back with her first article for Splash in 2017. She takes a…
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An open letter to the IMO demanding changes to the livestock trades
Having created one of the world’s greatest exposés in the history of shipping journalism, Australian vet Dr Lynn Simpson has…
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Live Animal Export: A seafaring Christmas
I’m not sentimental about Christmas. At sea I learned to celebrate some, ignore others. Some companies/captains decided crews of mixed…
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Live Animal Export: Crews share diseases
Humans pick up some nasty gifts from livestock as Dr Lynn Simpson details in her latest instalment for Splash. I’m…
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Live Animal Export: Escapees: Part 2
Dr Lynn Simpson on what happens when an animal makes a bolt for freedom. Part one can be found here.…
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Live Animal Export: Escapees: Part 1
Dr Lynn Simpson on what happens when an animal makes a bolt for freedom. Escapees in live export are not…
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Live Animal Export: Simply safer ships
Australian vet Dr Lynn Simpson highlights flaws in livestock carrier designs. There’s an old saying: “Amateurs built the ark, professionals…
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Live Animal Export: Trapped at sea
What happens when animals try to escape ship? Dr Lynn Simpson explains. Get me out of here! That’s normally how…
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Live Animal Export: Monitoring sheep for the long haul
In 2015 Australia exported 2.01m sheep, 12,560 (0.62%) died and were thrown into the ocean. Cruiseships don’t operate like this.…
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Live Animal Export: Bodies overboard
What happens when animals die in transit? Dr Lynn Simpson has the gruesome details. Unknowingly, at birth, farm animals enter…
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Live Animal Export: Shipping fever
Dr Lynn Simpson, a leading Australian livestock expert, highlights the biggest killer of cattle at sea. “Shipping fever” is the well…
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Live Animal Export: Shitty, shitty sheep
Dr Lynn Simpson discusses an issue that kills large numbers of live export sheep. Quite frankly, sheep give me the shits! “More…
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Live Animal Export: Blindsided
Dr Lynn Simpson on dealing with animals with eye troubles in transit. I recently went to a charity ball for…
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Live Animal Export: Reject the rejects
How come so many animals that clearly do not meet the rules are still being herded on ships and transported?…
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Live Animal Export: Born on the high seas
Dr Lynn Simpson explains what can happen when preganant animals travel on livestock carriers: “The morale of the ship plummets…
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