Rockhampton’s Beef Week is next scheduled for 4-9 May 2015. Today someone asked me why I attend. Good question! It is the biggest Australian event of it’s kind and has a special buzz about it; helped by the fact that it’s only held every 3 years, thus efficiently concentrating attendance and the money involved. Here’s […]
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The Vegetarian Myth, by Lierre Keith
March 19th, 2013Lierre Keith was a vegan for twenty years, suffered severe health problems then started researching. She wrote a book about what she discovered, called “The Vegetarian Myth”. I haven’t read Lierre Keith’s book (only found out about it today) but this television interview is very interesting. Lierre explains how being vegan “becomes who you are” […]
Nutritional value of red meat
March 15th, 2013Today someone asked me ‘what is the nutritional value of red meat’ (in a person’s diet). Good question! Unprocessed red meat includes a number of elements vital for human health. Nutrition and human health is an incredibly complicated field; research results often throw up conflicting views, some of which are later discredited. Above all – […]
SLM Australia Livestock Fund
March 12th, 2013SLM Partners Australia Pty Ltd has set up the SLM Australia Livestock Fund, which has apparently been buying property around Cunnamulla (Southern Queensland) and Enngonia (North Western NSW). The plan is to cell graze large numbers of cattle to “improve productivity while enhancing the environment”. SLM stands for “Sustainable Livestock Management”. Presumably SLM Partners will […]
#Peasenhallpigs – A tide of change against the noisy minority
March 10th, 2013Peasenhall Primary School in Suffolk, UK, has developed a scheme to educate students about where their meat comes from by raising pigs. Fairly predictably, there has been an abusive outcry from vegans/animal rights extremists. Organisers received 400+ derogatory emails, calling them ‘child abusers’, ‘pointless mothers’ etc. Nothing especially unusual about any of the vitriol, unfortunately. […]
Australia 3rd for both life expectancy & meat consumption
March 6th, 2013So much hot air is spoken about what a healthy diet consists of these days. And most of emanates from people with underlying attitudes, with an urge to steer the general population in a particular direction (veganism). Commonsense suggests the most intelligent course is to eat moderate amounts of good quality, sustainably produced food from […]
Meat Free Monday Propaganda
December 29th, 2012Do you know who is associated with the latest push to ‘reduce’ Australian meat eating – ‘Do Something’/ Foodwise ‘Meat Free Mondays’? No? The funny thing is I doubt the high-profile Australians supporting it really do either. Or if they do know it’s Animals Australia who are driving the campaign, they’re blind to the dark […]
Cattle station work featured on ‘Big Australia’ – 7Mate TV channel
November 26th, 2012The most recent episode of 7Mate’s ‘Big Australia’ TV series featured life on a northern Australian cattle station. Over the one hour programme, 3,000 head were mustered out of Green Holes paddock on the Acton Land & Cattle Company’s ‘Millungera’ Station, in Queensland’s Gulf Country. Brothers Graeme and Evan Acton are well known in the […]
Foreign ownership of Australian rural land
September 10th, 2012Anyone with an interest in the foreign ownership debate may like to visit Monica Attard’s article on The Hoopla called ‘Quick Facts. Selling the farm?’ and put their two bob’s worth in by adding a comment. Unfortunately there seems to be next-to-no discussion on whether foreign land ownership is good for Australian farms in a […]
Foreign investment in Australian agricultural land & food production companies
August 6th, 2012Trade Minister Craig Emerson says the increase in foreign ownership of Australian farm land has been negligible. ‘Barely 6%’ is foreign owned and there has been ‘little change in 25 years’. How about Craig trots out the precise figures, so we can draw our own conclusions? Or do his figures only include land sales that […]