Below are a variety of research/study sources from around the world plus some well thought out personal opinion pieces that refute misinformation portrayed as truth by those intent on eradicating all meat from the menu. Please note more references are added to this blog post as they are discovered, and sometimes links to articles may be broken, […]
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Care for the environment – like charity – must begin at home
February 12th, 2017Pheasant coucals are one of Australia’s most splendid birds. They are quirky characters with disproportionally long tails, a habit of engaging in disorganised, ungainly dances in bare spaces that include roads, and a hauntingly memorable call. I heard a pheasant coucal long before I ever saw one, several decades ago, in the thick vegetation lining […]
Well-known people choosing not to be vegetarian
July 10th, 2013Australian newspapers regularly print anti-meat eating opinions. Unfortunately, almost all of it is situated amongst what is supposed to be objective news reporting. The Weekend Australian Magazine has been a front runner. A classic comment from the fashion editor a few years ago, was a pronouncement on a handbag double-page spread, to not buy leather handbags as […]
Coles and Animals Australia
June 15th, 2013The following anonymous article appeared in the magazine that came with our local (News Ltd) newspaper today. As there is no byline; the source is dubious. In fact, I’d put money on this being an Animals Australia media release (either issued by them formally or written and sent out by a member, to increase chance of […]
Alastair Lucas & Nicolle Flint’s letters in the Melbourne Age Newspaper
May 17th, 2013Bush-bashing via media appears to be becoming a national sport. The latest is a letter in the Age Newspaper by Alastair Lucas AM. He criticises Nicolle Flint’s recent letter regarding the particular section of ABC television which increasingly looks like an unquestioning mouthpiece for animal rights extremists. They are not presenting the full facts regarding […]
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” […]
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 […]
Vegetarianism chosen for moral reasons
December 21st, 2011An objective, analytical discussion on the choice of vegetarianism for moral reasons, was written by Michael Martin of Boston University in 1976. It is publicly available today on the internet as it is on the American ‘Reason Papers’ website. Michael Martin’s article is titled ‘A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism’ and it runs to 43 pages including footnotes/references. I haven’t […]
Humans obtain more energy from cooked meat
November 10th, 2011Harvard University researchers have released the results of a very thorough study which measured the availability of energy from eating meat or sweet potato that is still raw or has been cooked. The observations are fascinating – in summary – more net energy is obtained from eating cooked meat than raw. No wonder my hairdresser is as thin as a stick, […]
Richard 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 […]