Howard: Sheep slaughter unlikely

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Fifty thousand Australian sheep stranded at sea will be brought home rather than slaughtered if a buyer can’t be found, Prime Minister John Howard said Thursday.

Shooting the sheep on board the ship was impractical, he said. “The current intention of the government, I can tell you, is clearly to bring them home,” Howard told radio station 2GB. “I can’t see the circumstances in which they could be slaughtered at sea.”

Bron: CNN, 09-10-2003;