John Alexander, MP for Bennelong (Liberal), has an excellent summary of the issues regarding Australia’s live export trade. How odd that it should take a politician from Sydney’s north west to provide the most sensible summary on the live export trade yet. Clearly, a career roaming the world playing professional tennis plus a background in small […]
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John Alexander, Member for Bennelong – comment on Live Export
June 12th, 2011Richard Aedy’s ABC Life Matters, A vegetarian love-in
June 18th, 2010Anyone feel like reading a couple of hundred posts by a pack of white middle-class professional holier-than-though people convinced they are morally superior because they choose to not eat meat; engaging in a session of mutual back-scratching? If so, check out the vegetarian diatribe on ABC Life Matters with Presenter Richard Aedy. I was going to call […]
Townsville meatworks & the live export trade
February 9th, 2010There are rock-throwers who periodically accuse the live export trade of being a threat to the only remaining meatworks in northern Australia – the JBS-owned meatworks at Townsville. For example some people who regularly write in to the Townsville Bulletin, bagging the live export trade. Such criticisers clearly need a lesson in basic economics (if […]
MLA ‘Give chops a chance’ ad
September 2nd, 2009It’s the 40th anniversary of the famous Woodstock music festival, and the MLA has a top new ad out – Give Chops a Chance (We love our lamb in spring), featuring a bunch of ultra-clean (and healthy) hippies, tucking into barbequed lamb chops to ‘Turn, turn, turn’. Enough to make you want to run to the […]
RSPCA
June 19th, 2009Dug up a very interesting website commenting on the activities of the RSPCA (primarily in NSW), SOS News; ‘RSPCA – The Dark Side’. Well worth a read. I can’t verify the facts quoted; however I do know that the RSPCA has shifted from what was originally a conservative, well-respected organisation set up to protect domestic […]
Farmers and the Emmissions Trading Scheme
June 5th, 2009Steve Truman of Agmates whops it up state and federal farming organisations, for their lack of effort on preventing the Federal Governments nutter Emissions Trading Scheme. I guess I just keep thinking that eventually people will wake up and realise the ludicrousness of the scheme, and that’s it’s simply a bright idea that even the […]
The best way to prevent animal extinctions – farming
May 26th, 2009The recent Swine Flu drama has illustrated exactly what the future would be for many animal species that are currently raised for human consumption, if extremist vegetarians had their way. There is apparently only one pig in the whole of Afghanistan, and it is in a zoo, as curiosity. Pork products are illegal in Afghanistan. […]
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) ads are scrutinised by The Gruen Transfer
May 14th, 2009Last night’s episode of ABC television’s Advertising/Marketing programme, The Gruen Transfer, scrutinised several Meat & Livestock Australia advertisements produced over more than a decade. These television advertisements are hugely expensive to produce and incredibly expensive to run. Many meat producers complain about their high industry levies, so they should be thrilled to see this intelligent […]
People for the Eating of Tasty Animals
August 5th, 2008I don’t know how I missed it for this long, but I only recently stumbled upon P.E.T.A. – People for the Eating of Tasty Animals. There are t-shirts, mugs, keyrings and stickers, etc. Well done Mike Doughney, for standing up for free speech in the face of abusive bullying. Check out his excellent website http://www.mtd.com/tasty/ […]
Australian Farming & Grazing Organisations
October 21st, 2007The main national agricultural producers body, the National Farmer’s Federation (NFF), has a good list of state grower organisations. The Country Women’s Association of Australia is Australia’s largest women’s organisation. The website has links to the state CWA organisations such as the Queensland Country Women’s Association. Australian Women in Agriculture (AWiA) is also a national body […]