Bush-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 [...]
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Starving cattle to graze in Queensland National Parks
May 16th, 2013Predictably, conservationists are jumping up and down about the prospect of certain (starving) cattle being allowed to graze in some of Queensland’s National Parks. Quite a few of the parks being considered would already have (feral) cattle in them, and all would have been cattle stations at one time. They were made National Parks due [...]
NAPCo – North Australia Pastoral Co – shares for sale
May 13th, 2013The North Australia Pastoral Co (NAPCo) is one of Australia’s oldest large pastoral companies; having been established in the 1870s. Renowned for conservative, steady management (the most likely style to make a healthy profit, long-term); the ownership of NAPCo has always been kept as secret as possible; with long-term shareholders living unassuming lives out of [...]
Agricultural Travel to Ireland, Scotland, Wales & England
April 30th, 2013Anyone like to come with Kerry Moss and I on a Quadrant Agricultural Tour to the British Isles? We’ll be zig-zagging over farms and memorable sites in Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales, for almost a whole month in August/September 2013. This farm tour includes visits to a range of beef, dairy, sheep and cropping farms [...]
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 – [...]
