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National Call Your MP Day
16 August 2011 Have your say
What's the most important phone call you'll make today?
Tomorrow, Thursday, 18th August, the future of live exports will rest in the hands of our elected representatives in Canberra. Federal politicians will be presented a historic opportunity to right a dreadful wrong and end Australia's cruelest trade.
If the Government rejects the proposed legislation and continues to support live export, it will be condemning millions of animals to unspeakable brutality and putting short-term profit before long-term benefits to the economy and Australian jobs.
On Sunday, 20,000 people gave several hours of their time to attend rallies across the nation. (Please read on below the video to find out what important phone call you can make today.)
Today the animals need just 5 minutes of your time. With thousands of people making one urgent call to their elected member today (Wednesday), politicians will hear loud and clear that those they represent want an end to the cruelty.
Please join us in a "National Call Your MP Day" urging politicians nationwide to support the Bills to end live export.
This is your last chance to make your voice heard before the vote. Whether this is the first or twenty-first time you'll call your MP, please take this important opportunity to speak up.
Please also call Julia Gillard's office (02) 6277 7700 to urge her to put the Bills to a conscience vote and free up politicians to honestly represent the will of the Australian public and support the Bills without the threat of being expelled from their party.
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melissa:
let's let retailers know
Friday, 2 December 2011 at 8:55pm
'Traditional Medicines' using ingredients from tortured animals ARE available in Australia, as are other hienous products like shark -fins and the pelts fo dogs and cats who have been SKINNED ALIVE ( see animalsaviours.org) so that ugg boots etc cab have afluffy lining.
Please let retailers know you will not spend money in their stores whilst the keep such deplorable stock.
Please let retailers know you will not spend money in their stores whilst the keep such deplorable stock.
kerry williams:
thisabominations you allow will come back on you
Friday, 23 September 2011 at 10:14am
I am still traumatised by the little I could watch on the 4Corners programm. I am dumbfounded that we, as a civilised society perpetrate these crimes in our own country, and they are crimes, against the animal kingdom. I have received replies from the pollies I have e-mailed and it still boils down to one thing, money & profit. Let me tell you something, they do not care one iota about the atrocities. I can only say this to all of those breeders, politicians,& depraved people who carry out the torture & atrocities, Universal Law/Karma is as real as what you are doing, every thought, word & deed you put out there will come back on you, do not doubt that.
Margo Bouvier:
Live ban
Sunday, 4 September 2011 at 7:43pm
As we, of a widely humanitarian country know, Knowledge is Power. We know what cruelty these Animals face, who incredibly make an unknowingly Noble sacrifice for Human consumption. Humans are,
of course, the intelligent race!! @ the top of the food chain. In business we have "Code of Conduct" & "Code of Ethics" isn't it about time, that we of an intelligent race, help other Nations, who are behind in bringing their businesses into the 21st Century.
We can no longer use the excuse, " this has been going on for hundreds of years", because we know from world Media that these countries have readily accepted modern weapons & modern intelligence when it comes to War & technical advancement in
Military. So isn't it our DUTY OF CARE to see that the people of other Nations STAY in the 21st Century. SPEAK UP AUSTRALIA this is not just going to go away.
Margo
of course, the intelligent race!! @ the top of the food chain. In business we have "Code of Conduct" & "Code of Ethics" isn't it about time, that we of an intelligent race, help other Nations, who are behind in bringing their businesses into the 21st Century.
We can no longer use the excuse, " this has been going on for hundreds of years", because we know from world Media that these countries have readily accepted modern weapons & modern intelligence when it comes to War & technical advancement in
Military. So isn't it our DUTY OF CARE to see that the people of other Nations STAY in the 21st Century. SPEAK UP AUSTRALIA this is not just going to go away.
Margo
catfood:
EARTHLINGS
Thursday, 25 August 2011 at 11:06pm
The three stages of truth. Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 - 1860).
1 ridicule
2 violent opposition
3 acceptance
From EARTHLINGS - the film can be seen for free here - dare the politicians to watch this:
http://www.earthlings.com
Show 1 reply1 ridicule
2 violent opposition
3 acceptance
From EARTHLINGS - the film can be seen for free here - dare the politicians to watch this:
http://www.earthlings.com
Jill Ryan:
What Do We Do Now?
Thursday, 25 August 2011 at 3:40pm
I have sent emails,signed petitions,gathered signatures on petitions etc.etc.I don`t think there are many pollies out there that really care about animal welfare.All they seem to care about is profit.they should be transported like the sheep and cattle then taken to an abbatior and foced to watch the cruelty first hand.We all know that will never happen,so we need something that will shock them into realising that live export has to stop.Any ideas???
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Karen Johnson:
Stop Australia's Live Export Trade!
Wednesday, 24 August 2011 at 1:39pm
From the Care2 petition site:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/779/856/763/?z00m=20046406
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/779/856/763/?z00m=20046406
Andrew Webster:
Vile!
Wednesday, 24 August 2011 at 9:57am
Despite the fact that we have all now seen what fate awaits these poor Animals when exported overseas. We still have these so called Australians who seem more determined than ever to pursue this Horrifyingly Gruesome trade.
What a VILE slice of the Human Race they are!!!
What a VILE slice of the Human Race they are!!!
catfood:
HUMANE: THE MYTHOLOGY YOU WANT TO BELIEVE
Monday, 22 August 2011 at 3:34pm
Inherent risks in assembly line slaughter. This is the link to the full story:
http://animalrightskorea.org/factory-farming/they-die-piece-by-piece.html
Gail Eisnitz (Slaughterhouse, The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect and Inhumane Treatment Inside The U.S. Meat Industry, 2006) author and chief investigator for Humane Farming Association (HFA), like Lyn White, Eisnitz is another incredibly brave person working tirelessly for animals in the US. Some will say, this is America, not us, I hope they are right, but going undercover in our own abattoirs would be the only way to find out.
Show 2 replieshttp://animalrightskorea.org/factory-farming/they-die-piece-by-piece.html
Gail Eisnitz (Slaughterhouse, The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect and Inhumane Treatment Inside The U.S. Meat Industry, 2006) author and chief investigator for Humane Farming Association (HFA), like Lyn White, Eisnitz is another incredibly brave person working tirelessly for animals in the US. Some will say, this is America, not us, I hope they are right, but going undercover in our own abattoirs would be the only way to find out.
interzone:
"Animal" consciousness, greater than ours
Monday, 22 August 2011 at 3:02pm
AsiaOne
Friday, Aug 05, 2011
"The Chinese media has reported on an extraordinary account of a mother bear saving her cub from a life of torture by strangling it and then killing itself.
The bears were kept in a farm located in a remote area in the North-West of China. The bears on the farm had their gall bladders milked daily for 'bear bile,' which is used as a remedy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
It was reported that the bears are kept in tiny cages known as 'crush cages', as the bears have no room to manoeuvre and are literally crushed.
The bile is harvested by making a permanent hole or fistula in the bears' abdomen and gall bladder.
As the hole is never closed, the animals are suspect to various infections and diseases including tumours, cancers and death from peritonitis.
The bears are fitted with an iron vest, as they often try to kill themselves by hitting their stomach as they are unable to bear the pain.
A person who was on the farm in place of a friend witnessed the procedures and told Reminbao.com that they were inhumane.
The witness also claimed that a mother bear broke out its cage when it heard its cub howl in fear before a worker punctured its stomach to milk the bile.
The workers ran away in fear when they saw the mother bear rushing to its cub's side.
Unable to free the cub from its restraints, the mother hugged the cub and eventually strangled it.
It then dropped the cub and ran head-first into a wall, killing itself."
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest News/Asia/Story/A1Story20110805-292947.html
Show 1 replyFriday, Aug 05, 2011
"The Chinese media has reported on an extraordinary account of a mother bear saving her cub from a life of torture by strangling it and then killing itself.
The bears were kept in a farm located in a remote area in the North-West of China. The bears on the farm had their gall bladders milked daily for 'bear bile,' which is used as a remedy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
It was reported that the bears are kept in tiny cages known as 'crush cages', as the bears have no room to manoeuvre and are literally crushed.
The bile is harvested by making a permanent hole or fistula in the bears' abdomen and gall bladder.
As the hole is never closed, the animals are suspect to various infections and diseases including tumours, cancers and death from peritonitis.
The bears are fitted with an iron vest, as they often try to kill themselves by hitting their stomach as they are unable to bear the pain.
A person who was on the farm in place of a friend witnessed the procedures and told Reminbao.com that they were inhumane.
The witness also claimed that a mother bear broke out its cage when it heard its cub howl in fear before a worker punctured its stomach to milk the bile.
The workers ran away in fear when they saw the mother bear rushing to its cub's side.
Unable to free the cub from its restraints, the mother hugged the cub and eventually strangled it.
It then dropped the cub and ran head-first into a wall, killing itself."
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest News/Asia/Story/A1Story20110805-292947.html
Trisha:
From Sydney Morning Herald on our sheep
Sunday, 21 August 2011 at 1:04am
200 sheep die on stricken ship
Nino Bucci
August 19, 2011
The RSPCA says more than two hundred sheep have died aboard a transport ship that returned to Port Adelaide after breaking down at sea.
The RSPCA boarded the ship, which is stranded with 67,000 sheep on baord, at Port Adelaide today after gaining a warrant to inspect conditions amid fears of animal cruelty.
The Kuwaiti-flagged Al Messilah, bound for Qatar, returned to Port Adelaide last week after a mechanical failure.
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An RSPCA spokeswoman confirmed earlier that the group had gone on board and planned to film their visit.
Sheep were being offloaded this morning, but it will take about three days to empty the vessel.
The sheep will be taken to a feedlot at Dublin, north of Adelaide, to await the arrival of another transport ship in two to three weeks.
Agriculture Minister Michael O'Brien said yesterday that he had been advised the sheep remained in good condition.
"There have been some deaths, but the number is within the expected mortality rate for any feedlot exercise of this type," Mr O'Brien said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/200-sheep-die-on-stricken-ship-20110819-1j1l1.html#ixzz1Va8GE3Dg
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/200-sheep-die-on-stricken-ship-20110819-1j1l1.html#ixzz1Va7UtLhh
Show 2 repliesNino Bucci
August 19, 2011
The RSPCA says more than two hundred sheep have died aboard a transport ship that returned to Port Adelaide after breaking down at sea.
The RSPCA boarded the ship, which is stranded with 67,000 sheep on baord, at Port Adelaide today after gaining a warrant to inspect conditions amid fears of animal cruelty.
The Kuwaiti-flagged Al Messilah, bound for Qatar, returned to Port Adelaide last week after a mechanical failure.
Advertisement: Story continues below
An RSPCA spokeswoman confirmed earlier that the group had gone on board and planned to film their visit.
Sheep were being offloaded this morning, but it will take about three days to empty the vessel.
The sheep will be taken to a feedlot at Dublin, north of Adelaide, to await the arrival of another transport ship in two to three weeks.
Agriculture Minister Michael O'Brien said yesterday that he had been advised the sheep remained in good condition.
"There have been some deaths, but the number is within the expected mortality rate for any feedlot exercise of this type," Mr O'Brien said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/200-sheep-die-on-stricken-ship-20110819-1j1l1.html#ixzz1Va8GE3Dg
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/200-sheep-die-on-stricken-ship-20110819-1j1l1.html#ixzz1Va7UtLhh
Trisha:
Please read Catfood's post
Sunday, 21 August 2011 at 12:12am
Re-posting this as it's important to know:
catfood: Friday, 19 August 2011 at 4:50pm
HUMANE: THE MYTHOLOGY YOU WANT TO BELIEVE
...only one day? This is what eating meat supports, anywhere animals are "humanely" killed.
"The live cows cause a lot of injuries," said Martin Fuentes, (a slaughterhouse worker) whose arm was kicked and shattered by a dying cow. "The line is never stopped simply because an animal is alive"...animals get stunned, but many animals are completely conscious, kicking and crying out, as they are skinned and cut to pieces. "During one inspection, federal officials found nine live cattle dangling from an overhead chain"
Modern Meat: A Brutal Harvest
'They Die Piece by Piece'
In Overtaxed Plants, Humane Treatment of Cattle Is Often a Battle Lost
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 10, 2001; Page A01
All of you who are still eating meat, try getting in to an abattoir these days. When I was phoning abattoirs to do a photo shoot of the killing floor, one woman told me guilelessly "Oh yeah, we used to have school kids coming through, then we found out they all became vegetarians." Wake up guys, there's no "nice" way to kill an animal immersed in a world of blood and pain.
Show 4 repliescatfood: Friday, 19 August 2011 at 4:50pm
HUMANE: THE MYTHOLOGY YOU WANT TO BELIEVE
...only one day? This is what eating meat supports, anywhere animals are "humanely" killed.
"The live cows cause a lot of injuries," said Martin Fuentes, (a slaughterhouse worker) whose arm was kicked and shattered by a dying cow. "The line is never stopped simply because an animal is alive"...animals get stunned, but many animals are completely conscious, kicking and crying out, as they are skinned and cut to pieces. "During one inspection, federal officials found nine live cattle dangling from an overhead chain"
Modern Meat: A Brutal Harvest
'They Die Piece by Piece'
In Overtaxed Plants, Humane Treatment of Cattle Is Often a Battle Lost
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 10, 2001; Page A01
All of you who are still eating meat, try getting in to an abattoir these days. When I was phoning abattoirs to do a photo shoot of the killing floor, one woman told me guilelessly "Oh yeah, we used to have school kids coming through, then we found out they all became vegetarians." Wake up guys, there's no "nice" way to kill an animal immersed in a world of blood and pain.
Karen Johnson:
Australia's Only Ethical Politicians
Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 5:49pm
Thank heavens for Adam Bandt and Andrew Wilkie!
http://adam-bandt.greensmps.org.au/content/petition/demand-end-live-exports
http://adam-bandt.greensmps.org.au/content/petition/demand-end-live-exports
Janene Ryan:
People and planet
Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 5:21pm
I switched to vegetarian 10 years ago.
My body is healthier
My environmental footprint is smaller
My body is healthier
My environmental footprint is smaller
000:
COUNTER SPIN
Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 4:16pm
In reply to concerns about what the loss of this industry really entails:
Previously posted by catfood
Excerpt from:
http://www.liveexportshame.com/publications/ABS_facts_vs_industry_claims.htm
Independently assessed facts and figures figures:
The Heilbron Report was commissioned by the 'Australian Meat Processor Corporation Limited', and undertaken by SG Heilbron Pty Ltd . The report was completed in April 2000 and the findings published in the Heilbron report established that the trade employs just over 3000 people. These are confirmed as jobs which exist because of the live animal trade. All other jobs claimed by the industry would exist regardless of the continuation of *live export. The report goes onto say that live exports costs some $1.7 billion in lost GDP; around $280 million in household income and about 12,000 jobs %u2014 mostly in regional areas.
*The figures provided by the industry in the Hassall report include dentists, doctors, bankers, insurance salesmen even the lady who sold cigarettes to the wife of the man who's brother sometimes drives a sheep truck. The industry included anyone they could use to inflate their figures, however these have been determined to be misleading even if industry and the govt who support industry are not willing to admit this to be so."
The Heilbron report is also mentioned on the RSPCA Qld. site
http://www.rspcaqld.org.au/news/campaigns.htm
The Live Animal Export Trade Costs Jobs
Previously posted by catfood
Excerpt from:
http://www.liveexportshame.com/publications/ABS_facts_vs_industry_claims.htm
Independently assessed facts and figures figures:
The Heilbron Report was commissioned by the 'Australian Meat Processor Corporation Limited', and undertaken by SG Heilbron Pty Ltd . The report was completed in April 2000 and the findings published in the Heilbron report established that the trade employs just over 3000 people. These are confirmed as jobs which exist because of the live animal trade. All other jobs claimed by the industry would exist regardless of the continuation of *live export. The report goes onto say that live exports costs some $1.7 billion in lost GDP; around $280 million in household income and about 12,000 jobs %u2014 mostly in regional areas.
*The figures provided by the industry in the Hassall report include dentists, doctors, bankers, insurance salesmen even the lady who sold cigarettes to the wife of the man who's brother sometimes drives a sheep truck. The industry included anyone they could use to inflate their figures, however these have been determined to be misleading even if industry and the govt who support industry are not willing to admit this to be so."
The Heilbron report is also mentioned on the RSPCA Qld. site
http://www.rspcaqld.org.au/news/campaigns.htm
The Live Animal Export Trade Costs Jobs
Risto Siljanoski:
WSPA LINK
Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 4:14pm
http://www.global.humanechain.org.au/Default.aspx?id=10511#.Tk9JcpcEZWg.twitter
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000:
A Pound of Flesh
Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 4:09pm
In answer to Roslyn, thank you for making an ethical choice for the animals and for the reasons PETA outlines below...
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/more-reasons-to-go-vegan.aspx
BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO END WORLD HUNGER
There is more than enough food in the world to feed the entire human population. So why are more than a billion people still going hungry? Our meat-based diet is largely to blame. We funnel huge amounts of grain, soybeans, and corn through all the animals we use for food instead of feeding starving humans. If we stopped intensively breeding farmed animals and grew crops to feed humans instead, we could easily feed everyone on the planet with healthy and affordable vegetarian foods.
Raising animals for food is extremely inefficient. For every pound of food that farmed animals are fed, only a fraction of the calories are returned in the form of edible flesh. The rest of those calories are burned away raising the animal to slaughter weight or contributing to feathers, bone, skin, blood, and other parts of the animal that are not eaten by humans. This is why animals raised for food have to eat as many as 16 pounds of grain to create just 1 pound of edible flesh. The prestigious Worldwatch Institute states, "[M]eat consumption is an inefficient use of grain, the grain is used more efficiently when consumed directly by humans. Continued growth in meat output is dependent on feeding grain to animals, creating competition for grain between affluent meat-eaters and the world's poor."
As a meat-based diet spreads to developing countries, farmers who are trying to feed themselves are being driven off their land. Their efficient, plant-based agricultural model is being replaced with intensive livestock rearing, which also pollutes the air and water and renders the once-fertile land dead and barren. If this trend continues, the developing world will never be able to produce enough food to feed itself, and hunger will continue to plague hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Author George Monbiot, writing in theU.K.'s The Guardian, explains that there's only one solution: "It now seems plain that [a vegan diet] is the only ethical response to what is arguably the world's most urgent social justice issue."
More than 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to create cropland to grow grain to feed farmed animals, and according to scientists at the Smithsonian Institution, the equivalent of seven football fields of land is bulldozed worldwide every minute to create more room for farmed animals.
Livestock grazing is the number one reason that plant species in the United States become threatened and go extinct, and it also leads to soil erosion and eventual desertification that renders once-fertile land barren.
Ecologically we face similar problems in Australia, as the oldest continent in the world our ecosystem is very delicate. Introduced species, including cloven hoofed animals create havoc with the natural environment, polluting waterways, causing erosion and destroying native grasses.
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/more-reasons-to-go-vegan.aspx
BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO END WORLD HUNGER
There is more than enough food in the world to feed the entire human population. So why are more than a billion people still going hungry? Our meat-based diet is largely to blame. We funnel huge amounts of grain, soybeans, and corn through all the animals we use for food instead of feeding starving humans. If we stopped intensively breeding farmed animals and grew crops to feed humans instead, we could easily feed everyone on the planet with healthy and affordable vegetarian foods.
Raising animals for food is extremely inefficient. For every pound of food that farmed animals are fed, only a fraction of the calories are returned in the form of edible flesh. The rest of those calories are burned away raising the animal to slaughter weight or contributing to feathers, bone, skin, blood, and other parts of the animal that are not eaten by humans. This is why animals raised for food have to eat as many as 16 pounds of grain to create just 1 pound of edible flesh. The prestigious Worldwatch Institute states, "[M]eat consumption is an inefficient use of grain, the grain is used more efficiently when consumed directly by humans. Continued growth in meat output is dependent on feeding grain to animals, creating competition for grain between affluent meat-eaters and the world's poor."
As a meat-based diet spreads to developing countries, farmers who are trying to feed themselves are being driven off their land. Their efficient, plant-based agricultural model is being replaced with intensive livestock rearing, which also pollutes the air and water and renders the once-fertile land dead and barren. If this trend continues, the developing world will never be able to produce enough food to feed itself, and hunger will continue to plague hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Author George Monbiot, writing in theU.K.'s The Guardian, explains that there's only one solution: "It now seems plain that [a vegan diet] is the only ethical response to what is arguably the world's most urgent social justice issue."
More than 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to create cropland to grow grain to feed farmed animals, and according to scientists at the Smithsonian Institution, the equivalent of seven football fields of land is bulldozed worldwide every minute to create more room for farmed animals.
Livestock grazing is the number one reason that plant species in the United States become threatened and go extinct, and it also leads to soil erosion and eventual desertification that renders once-fertile land barren.
Ecologically we face similar problems in Australia, as the oldest continent in the world our ecosystem is very delicate. Introduced species, including cloven hoofed animals create havoc with the natural environment, polluting waterways, causing erosion and destroying native grasses.
Risto Siljanoski:
PLEASE JOIN WSPA
Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 4:08pm
Please join Humane Chain WSPA and tell Australian Government it's
time to stop cruel Live Animal Exports!
Show 2 repliestime to stop cruel Live Animal Exports!
GV:
Revolution!
Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 4:00pm
I feel like we need to get a revolution going - in the schools perhaps, like Jamie Oliver did with healthy eating. Wouldn't it be wonderful if every school child (as horrendous as the footage is), viewed the Four Corners footage? It could become a part of the education curriculum. I doubt that any of them would choose to eat meat again. These children, would then impact on their parents, and maybe this could be the start to vegetarianism! Our children are the adults and decision makers of the future - we need to educate and expose them! But we can all start small, by educating all individuals who we know - already 1 of my co-workers has said she has stopped eating meat!
See also:Live export exposé wins at the LogiesEvidence mounts against live exportAnimals Australia urges Egypt to take stranded cattleOpinion: Our live export shameLabor MPs tell government not to settle with cattle exporters
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