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Joeys like this one have no chance of survival once the Mother kangaroo has been shot.

Stop EU Imports - 440,000 Joeys killed every year!

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European Union
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Imagine the peaceful scene, a kangaroo looks out across the Australian night; her baby joey in her pouch and an adolescent kangaroo by her side. A shot rings out and she falls to the ground. Confused, the older joey hops away into the bush in panic. Helpless and terrified, the baby joey is ripped from his mother's pouch and thrown to the ground. 


A metal bar is raised and brought down with force; smashing his tiny head as his mother lies dying at his side unable to save her baby. This scene is repeated every single night in Australia, over and over again. Please help us end the largest massacre of land animals on the planet today. 

This petition saves lives. 

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Australia exports kangaroo meat to 48 countries. According to figures supplied by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in 2008 this business alone was worth $83.6 million.
Kangaroo shooters work all night, driving especially equipped four-wheel-drive vehicles that can usually carry up to 50 carcasses. Their prey is transfixed by a high-powered lamp and shot through the head. They are bled on the truck before being eviscerated and having their heads, tails, and sometimes limbs removed. If the kangaroo is a female with young, the National Code of Practice for Humane Shooting of Kangaroos and Wallabies for Commercial Purposes states the hairless joey (in-pouch)must be killed by having it's head cut off or a single forceful blow to the base of the skull.  For the young-at-foot a single shot to the brain or heart.

Dror Ben-Ami states in a new report that by conservative estimates 440,000 joeys die every year. There is also evidence, he says, that 40 per cent of the adults are not killed by a clean shot to the head, but by a more painful and illegal shot to the jaw or neck. Second, there is no sustainability for the declining kangaroo population.  In 1880 the population was estimated at some 240 Million animals (Chisholm 1963) but 2008 estimates put that same population at some ,  25.8 Million kangaroos.

This trade must be banned in Europe! Please sign this petition.  Seal clubbing has been banned and so must this! Sign up for progress and updates on EU and this issue at:-www.440000joeys.eu
PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE NOTED BY SIGNERS ON THIS SITE WILL BE REMOVED BY THE MODERATORS.

Imagine the peaceful scene, a kangaroo looks out across the Australian night; her baby joey in her pouch and an adolescent kangaroo by her side. A shot rings out and she falls to the ground. Confused, the older joey hops away into the bush in panic. Helpless and terrified, the baby joey is ripped from his mother's pouch and thrown to the ground. 


A metal bar is raised and brought down with force; smashing his tiny head as his mother lies dying at his side unable to save her baby. This scene is repeated every single night in Australia, over and over again. Please help us end the largest massacre of land animals on the planet today. 

This petition saves lives. 

Also Visit:-www.440000joeys.eu 

to find out more and register with us.


Australia exports kangaroo meat to 48 countries. According to figures supplied by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in 2008 this business alone was worth $83.6 million.
Kangaroo shooters work all night, driving especially equipped four-wheel-drive vehicles that can usually carry up to 50 carcasses. Their prey is transfixed by a high-powered lamp and shot through the head. They are bled on the truck before being eviscerated and having their heads, tails, and sometimes limbs removed. If the kangaroo is a female with young, the National Code of Practice for Humane Shooting of Kangaroos and Wallabies for Commercial Purposes states the hairless joey (in-pouch)must be killed by having it's head cut off or a single forceful blow to the base of the skull.  For the young-at-foot a single shot to the brain or heart.

Dror Ben-Ami states in a new report that by conservative estimates 440,000 joeys die every year. There is also evidence, he says, that 40 per cent of the adults are not killed by a clean shot to the head, but by a more painful and illegal shot to the jaw or neck. Second, there is no sustainability for the declining kangaroo population.  In 1880 the population was estimated at some 240 Million animals (Chisholm 1963) but 2008 estimates put that same population at some ,  25.8 Million kangaroos.

This trade must be banned in Europe! Please sign this petition.  Seal clubbing has been banned and so must this! Sign up for progress and updates on EU and this issue at:-www.440000joeys.eu
PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE NOTED BY SIGNERS ON THIS SITE WILL BE REMOVED BY THE MODERATORS.
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We signed the "Stop EU Imports - 440,000 Joeys killed every year!" petition!
# 1,952:
2:39 pm PST, Nov 20, Soo Hamilton, United Kingdom
# 1,951:
8:41 am PST, Nov 20, Clare Leake, United Kingdom
# 1,950:
6:52 am PST, Nov 20, Judith Ross, United Kingdom
# 1,949:
2:01 pm PST, Nov 19, Anna Szaszorowska, Poland
# 1,948:
12:13 pm PST, Nov 19, Mick Thomas, Australia
Before you vegan, tree hugging, hippy SH!T bags start your boring as batsh!t rant about the roo industry some information, you know i-n-f-o-r-m-a-t-i-o-n- this is something that is based on truth not like the horse sh!t that spews from the ill informed on this petition. 1. not all roo shooters are "inhumane" 2. good luck trying to stop the roo industry 3. Russia is looking at re importing roo meat NICE TRY ON THAT ONE D!CKHEADS!!! and no I don't conduct or even know of roo shooting or shooters so don't try the "must have a intrest in the industry” bulldust and a note to mr woolley delete this i will only sign in with a different name so delete away pork chop!!!!
# 1,947:
10:50 am PST, Nov 19, Paula Burton, United Kingdom
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12:24 pm PST, Nov 18, Andrzej Szaszorowski, Poland
# 1,943:
10:52 am PST, Nov 18, PAWEL KOMISARSKI, United Kingdom
# 1,942:
10:51 am PST, Nov 18, Magdalena Szaszorowska, United Kingdom
# 1,941:
2:18 am PST, Nov 18, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
More unnecessary killing. There is evidence to show that the people that are able to do this to animals have no qualms about doing it to humans - it doesn't help us in the fight against violence all over the world.
# 1,940:
1:37 am PST, Nov 18, Tracey Rae, United Kingdom
# 1,939:
12:21 am PST, Nov 18, Yi Wen Peng, Taiwan
# 1,938:
3:11 pm PST, Nov 17, Neil Sugrue, United Kingdom
# 1,937:
3:07 pm PST, Nov 17, Lara Sugrue, United Kingdom
How any human can cause such devestating harm to such a magnificent creature is beyond me. Only grotesque, inhumane, cowards could earn their living this way, much the same as the canadian fishermen who slaughter baby seals. Kangaroos are now declining because of this revolting trade... It's up to us not to buy anything made from kangaroo skin to hit 'them' where is hurts. Animals are not our to eat or wear full stop.
# 1,936:
5:36 am PST, Nov 17, Elisa Dolléans, France
# 1,935:
5:26 am PST, Nov 17, Shirley Harrison, United Kingdom
# 1,934:
11:33 pm PST, Nov 16, Joyce Skinner, Australia
AUSTRALIA the only country to eat its Coat of Arms. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
# 1,933:
8:33 am PST, Nov 16, Andrew Shepherd, Ohio
# 1,932:
8:25 am PST, Nov 16, Madeline Teagle, United Kingdom
# 1,931:
4:19 am PST, Nov 16, Chris Kinsey, United Kingdom
# 1,930:
9:00 pm PST, Nov 15, Meg Quarrington, Australia
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5:22 pm PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Florida
# 1,928:
8:45 am PST, Nov 15, Christy Fearn, United Kingdom
# 1,927:
6:34 am PST, Nov 15, Catherine Elysabeth, France
# 1,926:
3:27 pm PST, Nov 14, Glenville J Owen, United Kingdom
Do no harm and you will be happy for it.
# 1,925:
11:12 am PST, Nov 14, Lamirand M, France
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9:39 am PST, Nov 14, Amanda Mitchell, United Kingdom
# 1,923:
9:18 am PST, Nov 14, WENDY LIPTROT, United Kingdom
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9:08 am PST, Nov 14, Louise Shutt, United Kingdom
# 1,921:
8:49 am PST, Nov 14, Mhairi Donad, United Kingdom
# 1,920:
5:34 am PST, Nov 14, Gill Wickes, United Kingdom
This is barbaric! Australia is meant to be civilized. Pity Steve Irwin died he would soon sort them out!
# 1,919:
7:40 pm PST, Nov 13, J. D. F. Pawlowicz, Illinois
The kangaroo industry is cruel and unecessary. You DON'T have to support, and you HAVE the power to cripple it.
# 1,918:
3:34 pm PST, Nov 13, Herdis Daugbjerg, Denmark
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1:59 pm PST, Nov 13, Catherine Heckford-Dickinson, United Kingdom
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7:14 am PST, Nov 13, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 1,915:
5:33 am PST, Nov 13, Elsa Leung, China
# 1,914:
5:23 am PST, Nov 13, Dorothy Cullum, United Kingdom
Please do something about this, the world is in a mess, first cat and dog fur being used, and now this
# 1,913:
1:23 am PST, Nov 13, WENDY BROOKS, United Kingdom
Do you have a child? Then, put yourself in the place of this mother kangaroo......seeing her child being smashed on the head whilst she lies helpless in agony.THINK!!! And.......help STOP it!!!
# 1,912:
10:31 pm PST, Nov 12, Flora Tam, Hong Kong
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2:23 pm PST, Nov 12, Monica Mak 蒙妮卡凱莉, Hong Kong
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12:50 pm PST, Nov 12, Cammay Lo, Hong Kong
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9:40 am PST, Nov 12, Ayuni Waini, Indonesia
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9:08 am PST, Nov 12, Theonie Roumbatos, France
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8:22 am PST, Nov 12, Vv Tong, Hong Kong
# 1,906:
12:48 am PST, Nov 12, Helen Johnstone, Australia
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7:11 pm PST, Nov 11, Chelmin Lim, Singapore
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1:13 am PST, Nov 11, Bella McNamee, Australia
# 1,903:
8:38 pm PST, Nov 10, Theresa Egbert, Florida
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4:45 pm PST, Nov 10, Jennifer Deuster, Georgia
# 1,901:
10:24 am PST, Nov 10, Lina Vidmar, Slovenia
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