1. The Australian standards, developed and strongly regulated by government officials, are also monitored by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). He said Cameron Morse, editor of Western Australia’s The Countryman newspaper recently checked for himself PETA’s allegations by making a three–week journey from Australia to Jordan aboard the livestock ship MV Becrux, which safely unloaded nearly 58,000 sheep. «Morse found that animal activists’ claims about poor conditions on board were ‘simply not accurate.’ Each sheep has access to as much food as it wants... (I have) yet to see an empty feed bin or water trough,» Brown said. «We need sensible, evidence–based policy, not publicity–seeking stunts from radicals who have ulterior motives.