Today I discovered the South Australian Government is now listed as a ‘partner’ on the “Do Something” Meat Free Monday “Foodwise” website. I’ve previously written about the Meat Free Monday campaign. It purports to help the health of the planet and relies on the endorsement of celebrities who are too distracted or too busy to […]
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Meat Free Monday supported by the South Australian Government
April 16th, 2015Meat that isn’t real (artificial, fake, faux, mock, pretend)
October 10th, 2014You know vegans who tell the rest of us not to eat meat, because methane from cows is causing polar icecaps to melt and bovines are water hogs as they’re drinking but not excreting? And how healthy, wholesome and nutritious a meat-free diet is? And how tasty a vegan or vegetarian diet is? Guess what […]
The rise & rise of Australian food snobbery
February 7th, 2014In relation to the SPC cannery, someone recently tweeted, in summary: Canned food is old-fashioned SPC needs to modernise (and produce more relevant products, which people will want to buy) The only people who buy tinned food are the ‘price sensitive’. (The implication being, tinned food buyers are either peasants or bogans, or both.) Unsurprisingly, […]
Objective journalism and the ABC
December 29th, 2013You can give identical film footage, photographs or facts to two different film producers or print editors/journalists and end up with two entirely different stories. Judicious editing, with specific sounds or music added, can produce polar opposite outcomes (both well away from the truth, if desired). Australian taxpayers fund the ABC so we have a […]
Animal Rights Extremist propaganda
November 23rd, 2013It’s depressing enough seeing “celebrity” cooks (eg Maggie Beer, Curtis Stone), musicians (eg Missy Higgins) and sports people (eg Pat Cash) jumping onto fashionable bandwagons without having the wisdom to check whether they’re being told the truth, and seeking information direct from people at the coal face. Which can now be done easily, within minutes, […]
RSPCA’s Lynne Bradshaw, at the LiveExchange Conference in Townsville
November 3rd, 2013Here’s another reason why all farmers should be on social media (see previous blog post). To actively counter misinformation, and share quotes. Lynne Bradshaw, National President of the RSPCA, spoke at the LiveExchange conference in Townsville last Friday. The talk was in the form of an interview by Landline presenter, Pip Courtney. These are some […]
Real charities and the questionable organisations who appear to do little hands-on good
June 13th, 2013Australia has many organisations, religious and otherwise, doing fabulous community work that could not be funded by governments. For example; Blue Care & Frontier Services (Uniting Church); St Vincent de Paul (associated with the Catholic Church, but not funded by it), Masonic Care Queensland (Freemasons). Etcetera. Quite rightly, these organisations have been granted Charitable Status, so […]
The truth about Australian animal welfare
June 5th, 2013There’s a few questions arising from the Weekly Times article re the withdrawal of Animal’s Australia’s ‘Make it possible’ fundraising bags from Coles supermarkets: What does Animals Australia’s Lyn White mean by her threat ‘we’re about to push hard on the accelerator’. More illegally installed surveillance cameras, like the one found at the piggery near Young (NSW), followed […]
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 […]
Sustainable fishing of tuna & other fish species
July 11th, 2012It has always puzzled me that there’s a substantial group in society persistently accusing farmers of environmental vandalism while virtually ignoring what is involved in providing the seafood they’re eating (a number of whom will be self described ‘vegetarians’; but that’s another discussion). A farmer sinks money into buying land, machinery, livestock and undertaking capital […]