Dr. Lynn Simpson
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Live Animal Export: Canberra opens the door to exemptions for improving animal welfare
The Australian government is backtracking on its commitment to improve conditions onboard livestock carriers. Dr Lynn Simpson is not impressed.…
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Live Animal Export: Rescue of survivors restarted three days after ship capsizes
“If these passengers wore school uniforms instead of wool …” Dr Lynn Simpson is not letting up in her condemnation…
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Live Animal Export: Queen Hind survivors condemned to a slow, cruel death
The Queen Hind, which capsized in Romania’s Midia Port on Sunday, is now a torture chamber of a different sort,…
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Live Animal Export: Loaded sheep ship capsizes, 13,567 sheep drown
Dr Lynn Simpson questions what the EU will do in the wake of yet another livestock shipping tragedy yesterday. How…
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Live Animal Export: Running out of options
Dr Lynn Simpson looks at the South African livestock trades. With no apparent intention to comply with the new Australian…
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Live Animal Export: Poetic justice
Dr Lynn Simpson recalls how she put pen to paper 16 years ago to record her worst ever livestock voyage.…
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Live Animal Export: Can farmers find an alternative in only 40 weeks?
Livestock carriers have the oldest age profile in deepsea shipping. The sulphur cap should ensure many of them find their…
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Live Animal Export: Industrial insecurity
Regular livestock contributor Dr Lynn Simpson makes her 2019 debut warning there’s still plenty to fix in this trade. Where…
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Live Animal Export: Review dismembers current Australian regulations
Dr Lynn Simpson gives her verdict on the Moss review looking into Australia’s Live Animal Export industry. Several months late…
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Live Animal Export: Australian export licence permanently cancelled
Dr Lynn Simpson reports on a remarkable day as the livestock trades edge ever closer to oblivion. After decades of…
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Live Animal Export: The global trade is dying
Dr Lynn Simpson reports on the pullback from live animal exports seen across the world in recent months. Too many…
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Live Animal Export: As one DAWR opens, another Daw closes
Dr Lynn Simpson looks at what has happened to the Australian livestock export trades since April’s dramatic 60 Minutes exposé…
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Live Animal Export: Seafarer ethics, morals, bravery and honour
Splash’s livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson praises the brave choices made by one Pakistani seafarer who may have changed the…
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Live Animal Export: Ignorant, defiant or stupid?
Splash livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson is disappointed with changes made to the animal export industry in Australia this week.…
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Live Animal Export: The dead sheep handicap
Dr Lynn Simpson reimagines the Australian livestock trade scene post-60 Minutes as a horse race. Who will make it past…
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Live Animal Export: Who really cares?
Our livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson returns today, with some serious questions for Australia’s Department of Agriculture. I mean, seriously.…
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Live Animal Export: Emissions reprieve?
Dr Lynn Simpson ponders whether environmental rulings might spell the end of much of the livestock carrier fleet. Here’s a…
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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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