The live sheep and cattle trade from Australia has been a contentious issue from Animal liberationists within Australia for some time. Visiting Mawashi, gave us a great perspective of how this trade is operating within the Middle East. It was great to see how the work that the MLA has been doing to improve livestock handling of Australian sheep and cattle is paying off by also improving the way local livestock is handled. It is a slow process but significant inroads are being made. If live export was banned the traders would source stock from other less caring markets, which would have no desire to invest in changing the traditional practices.
The livestock Doha markets we're an amazing array of different sheep breeds, cattle and camels, all for sale for meat.
We also visited the Veg & fish markets. For my Riverland friends, I found a fish that comes out of Qatar and looks very much like a Murray cod. See what you think?
Definitely looks like a cod of some sort, the Murray Cod is a prettier fish though! :)
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