202. Bobby Calves situation

Catching up on world news on theage.com.au, I came across 2 articles related to the state of young calves in Australia : ———————————— Article 1 Brutal secret behind the dairy industry Brian Sherman and Ondine Sherman January 28, 2011 http://www.theage.com.au/environment/animals/brutal-secret-behind-the-dairy-industry-20110128-1a7tb.html Many of us don’t give a second thought to where the milk in our latte [...]

116. The affected animals – Victorian Bushfire

That photo came from the Parks Indigenous Officer and this accompanying text: “The Ash Wednesday Fires in South Australia and Victoria in 1983 burnt 2,000 square kilometres. 260,000 farm animals died or had to be destroyed. And billions of wildlife perished, as well as their habitats.  Just a one acre fire will burn literally millions [...]

101. A high celsius day

I have played hours of soccer in the deserts of Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), went for a walk at peak noon in Rajkot (Gujarat) and went sight seeing in the middle of high summer in New Delhi. Places I have experienced heavy heat. But yesterday, here in regional Victoria, when I stepped out for a break [...]

100. But you are killing those plants !

  “Hi. That was an interesting post. On the topic of vegetarianism, how can you say that you are not causing greater pain to the plants when you kill them for your sustenance? We eat a plant by tearing it limb from limb. Who’s to say this is not barbaric? What is the difference between [...]

77. “A Cruel Trade”

There was a report about 2 months ago in the papers about the cruelty met out to Australian cattle in Egypt. I did some search on the net and came across this TV transcript done a few years ago from the slaughter house there. Here is a sentence from that report: Richard Carleton : And [...]

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