I thought about starting this list when I read the unexplained clanger by a fashion editor in a spread on handbags in the The Weekend Australian Magazine last year: ‘do your bit for the environment by not buying leather handbags’ (Are petrochemicals really better for the environment? How about ‘do your bit for the environment […]
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People who make unexplained environmental statements re. agriculture
August 21st, 2009RSPCA
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 […]
Imported pet food has killed cats so they stop irradiating it, rather than banning importation
June 6th, 2009A link has apparently been proven between the irradiation of imported pet food and cat deaths. By law, imported pet food has had to to be irradiated, to ensure no pests and diseases are imported into Australia. As pet food is made from the very worst rubbish meat and scraps that can’t be sold for […]
Life Source – Queensland
June 1st, 2009Life Source is a new organisation which was launched at Beef 2009 at Rockhampton, aimed at countering increasingly negative agricultural stereotypes. Peter Mahoney, of Theodore, is the primary contact. While the Queensland Country Life has indicated that fighting the tree-clearing ban is a primary objective, Life Source appears to have broader objectives than that. Life […]
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 […]
Be Veg Be Green Save the Planet! at it again – now in newspapers
May 14th, 2009Yesterday’s free Townsville newspaper, Sun community Newspapers, has a 3/4 page full colour ad from Supreme Master Ching Hai; ‘world-renowned Humanitarian, Artist and Spiritual teacher’ (her words). We’ve seen the Go Veg Be Green Save the Planet! ads during prime viewing time on SBS television over the last 6 months, but in the newspaper ad, […]
The Seventh Day Adventist church have been funding a barrow push for animal rights extremists
May 1st, 2009As long as I can remember, there’s been Sanitarium Weetbix in our cupboard for breakfast. Well not any more – Vita Brits only from now on. Nestle may not be 100% Australian owned, but at least they’re not pushing vegetarian propaganda onto the general public. And guess what, Vita Brits are usually cheaper anyway. A […]
Voiceless – domestic animals matter but native animals don’t
April 24th, 2009The Voiceless website has a dramatic counter on the home page which purports to show ‘the number of farm animals killed in Australia by the meat, dairy and egg industry, since you opened this page’. Perhaps Voiceless could consider a similar live counter that shows the worldwide number of acres of rainforest being cleared minute […]
Farmers are uneducated peasants who destroy the landscape and cause global warming
April 3rd, 2009In today’s Sydney Morning Herald newspaper Paul Myers, freelance journalist and former Rural Press General Manager, former editor of The Bulletin and R.M. William’s Outback Magazine, has written an excellent piece on the woeful state of the general public’s image of Australian farmers and graziers. Paul rightly points out that the world only grows enough […]