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Online petition calling for the live export ban to be lifted
June 24th, 2011Another farmer’s comment on conservation – at Mission Beach (NQ)
June 21st, 2011Here’s a classic comment on farmers and conservation, written by Mission Beach farmer, Maurice Franklin. A must-read for anyone who thinks farmers don’t care for the environment and that the natural environment and farming can’t co-exist. And the recent residential development around Mission Beach should give everyone cause for serious thought. Queensland’s wet tropics region is only a tiny […]
Classic modern hypocrisy – palm oil instead of products from farmed animals
June 21st, 2011I bought some lemon myrtle soap the other day. At home I noticed ‘Contains NO Animal Products’ written on the side of the box, along with ‘delights and vitalises’ and ‘natural freshness’, amongst the pretty symbols. A closer inspection was required. The spiel on the back described the lemon myrtle tree as being a Queensland rainforest species that […]
Banning live exports and meatworks in northern Australia
June 18th, 2011During the 1970s beef crash in northern Australia, there was no money to employ staff, muster, wean and truck cattle as sale prices were at rock bottom. Many beef producers simply went broke. Others hung on by the skin of their teeth with increasingly large debts. They had no option but to leave cattle to die in overgrazed paddocks at […]
Rural producers from southern regions, making ill-informed judgements regarding Australia’s live export trade
June 16th, 2011It’s exasperating to find southern producers who have posted online comments supporting the blanket ban on live exports because a) I haven’t come across a single one whose comments demonstrate any understanding of agriculture outside their own specific region and b) they’ve played right into the hands of animal rights extremists – apparently oblivious to the fact that […]
Farmer-bashing turning into a national sport
June 15th, 2011Poking around various websites, forums and blogs it has become apparent that there’s a noticeable difference between those making comments in support of banning live exports, and those in favour of fixing the problems and resuming the live export trade as soon as possible. Generally speaking, people making online comments in support of Australia’s live […]
Australians Supporting Beef Farmers (ASBF) – brand new website now online
June 14th, 2011The ‘Australians Supporting Beef Farmers’ (ASBF) brand new website is online today. The aim of the website is to provide objective industry facts and a united voice for Australian cattle farmers, especially those in the north who are directly or indirectly involved in the live export trade, as well as people indirectly involved (from truck drivers and mustering chopper […]
John Alexander, Member for Bennelong – comment on Live Export
June 12th, 2011John Alexander, MP for Bennelong (Liberal), has an excellent summary of the issues regarding Australia’s live export trade. How odd that it should take a politician from Sydney’s north west to provide the most sensible summary on the live export trade yet. Clearly, a career roaming the world playing professional tennis plus a background in small […]
Why do people raise animals destined to be eaten?
June 11th, 2011A comment by Kelsey Neilson: Why we send the cattle we grow and love to slaughter? Everything that lives someday dies. Animals, plants, people. What we do as beef producers is care for our cattle whilst they are alive as they are grown for food and yes they will die. You know that your grandparents […]
Australia’s live export trade
June 7th, 2011How many of the people calling for the banning of Australian livestock exports, will forgo holidays in Indonesia (in particular, Bali) by way of protest? How many Australians care enough to protest loudly about the way prisoners are treated in Indonesian prisons? How many of the people complaining about Australia’s live export trade, continue to […]