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Animals, Farmers and Cartesian Scientists
The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) describes itself as “an active, powerful lobby group dedicated to the interests of farmers and making a difference to communities”. On 5th January 2018, the...
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The global juggernaut of animal slaughter
This post highlights some material from this site’s memes and charts page, focusing on animal slaughter and meat production figures from 1961 to 2016. Although there appears to have been significant...
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Is this action plan designed for animals or business?
I did not expect to see significant improvements for animals in the Victorian government’s recently released Animal Welfare Action Plan, so I was not surprised when I read it. [Footnote 1] It has...
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Open email to Youth Food Movement Australia
The following email was sent to Youth Food Movement Australia on 1st December 2017: Hello, I refer to your Facebook comment of 21st November 2017, inviting me to contact you at this email address...
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Some questions for Youth Food Movement Australia
I have written three articles dealing with Youth Food Movement Australia (YFM) and its relationships with the animal agriculture sector. Links to the articles can be found below this post, which...
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Herding youth toward dairy
I have written previously of my concerns regarding the practices of Youth Food Movement Australia (YFM). Those concerns relate primarily to YFM’s close relationship with the meat and dairy industries,...
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Youth Food Movement and the farce of NSW’s Green Globe Awards
The New South Wales government’s Office of Environment and Heritage has just announced the winners of its 2017 Green Globe Awards, which are supposedly designed to “showcase people and projects making...
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The global slaughter index
A recent initiative of Terrastendo has been the creation of the global slaughter index. Across 194 countries for which relevant data is available, the index shows the number of land animals...
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Propaganda at the expense of animals
Recent material from the federal and Victorian governments on the treatment of food production animals includes some disturbing examples of political doublespeak and propaganda. We should not be...
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Less Meat Less Heat: Falling short of what’s required
Less Meat Less Heat (LMLH) is an Australian climate change campaign group that was created in early 2015. Its mission is “to reduce the consumption of meat most damaging to the climate by promoting a...
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The pork industry in the classroom
Australian Pork Limited (APL) is an industry organisation that describes itself as “the producer owned organisation supporting and promoting the Australian pork industry”. Despite potential bias, the...
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Righting legislative wrongs
The Victorian State Government in Australia has created an opportunity to right past legislative and regulatory wrongs. Examples of those wrongs are exemptions to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...
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Youth Food Movement Australia and the red meat industry
It may be easy to assume that an organisation with the word “youth” in the title is progressive. However, there have been exceptions in the past, and sadly, it seems there are today. I have commented...
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Open letter to Sydney Peace Foundation
This post contains the text of my open letter to the Sydney Peace Foundation concerning its decision to award the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize to author and activist, Naomi Klein. The organisation is a...
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Free range is not the answer
Ceres Agricultural Company Pty Ltd has applied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to register a Free Range Pasture Finished certification trademark in respect of cattle raised...
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Animals and the decay of public language
I recently posted an article containing the text of a letter I had sent to Victorian Minister for Agriculture, Jaala Pulford. My key point was that the website of Agriculture Victoria claims that...
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Open letter to Jaala Pulford
Here is my letter of 31st March 2016 to Victorian Minister for Agriculture, Jaala Pulford. I have informed Ms Pulford that I would be posting the content of the letter online. Some of the material was...
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Is helping the helpless a crime?
Animal rights campaigner, Dori Kiss, spoke at the Melbourne Pig Save rally outside the GPO building in the heart of the city’s shopping precinct in late October, 2015. In her speech, Dori spoke of...
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Questions for Breakthrough climate forum
In a recent article, I referred to questions I had raised over the past couple of years at public forums arranged by Australian climate action group, “Breakthrough: National Centre for Climate...
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Letters in newspapers
Here’s a selection of my letters published in newspapers since early 2008, listed under the headings: animal rights; climate change in general; environmental (incl. climate change) impacts of animal...
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