Poor cows

[So_Cynical]

There was a cartoon in the paper the other day that depicted a cow going into a slaughter house, the cow had a choice of 2 entry's into the slaughter house with signs above both.

One sign read humain death and the other in-human death..point being that death was the only option....this ban is really going to hurt the industry in the north, cost many jobs just to shore up green/left city votes in the south....rural Aust getting screwed yet again for city votes.

 

[pilots]

What a joke we are here, we tell Indonesia that you must stun your cows b4 you kill them, yet here in Australia we don't have to.

 

[Calliope]

I love it when the bulls get a bit of their own back. This may be a market indicator.

PAMPLONA, Spain ”” An Australian man was gored in the leg and six other people were injured Friday as daredevils ran with fighting bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamploma.
The second of eight mad dashes at Spain's most famous summer festival featured bulls known for being fast and prone to poking people with their horns.
The Navarra regional government said on its website that besides the 25-year-old gored man, six other people were treated at hospitals, most of them foreigners. None of their names or hometowns were given.
Two Americans aged 22 and 21 – the first with an injured right leg, the second with a hurt lip – were treated and released. The other four were a Briton from Birmingham, an Italian from Rome, another Australian and a Spaniard, all with minor injuries from falls or being trampled.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...11_n_893375.html#s305765&title=Running_Of_The

 

[Glen48]

 

[drsmith]

The ban may be lifted, but the government's still dragging the chain.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-28/20110728elders-cattle-delay/2814198

 

[bellenuit]

Sky News are reporting that a Liberal Senator (or was it an MP) is claiming that he has evidence that Animal Rights Activists bribed an Indonesian abattoir worker to perform the acts of cruelty for the news footage. I don't have any other details at this stage.

 

[moXJO]

Sky News are reporting that a Liberal Senator (or was it an MP) is claiming that he has evidence that Animal Rights Activists bribed an Indonesian abattoir worker to perform the acts of cruelty for the news footage. I don't have any other details at this stage.

Yeah need confirmation if it's true or not. It's been floating round for a while.

THE row over live cattle exports has reignited amid claims Indonesian peasant meat workers were bribed to mistreat animals for explosive television footage that sparked a four-week suspension of the industry.

Liberal senator Chris Back made the allegations before a Senate committee yesterday, raising the possibility that the damaging shutdown of the $320 million-a-year industry could have been based on a lie.

Citing a "very reliable source", he said a white man, a white woman and a driver had visited the slaughterhouse and "the driver and the cameraman" had offered a man 150,000 rupiah to kick the animal in the head.

"He did not want to do this for religious reasons but his family needed money so he did," the senator said. "He kicked it a number of times and then stopped. They asked him to keep going and he did."

He said the worker had been ostracised by colleagues because the affair had caused a downturn in business. The man had been beaten and his wife and daughter had been raped.

Too early to make a call without info. If it is true heads should be thoroughly kicked though
Where the F are all the investigative journalists in this country, the just seem to focus on the latest celebrities hair or boob exposure.

 

[Trish]

I am appalled at the slaughter but why are we going Hal Al in Australia. we are all eating meat and poulty killed by a Muslim slaughter man after he has cut the throats of the animals and said his prayers. Why are Australians being forced to consume this food. All the supermarkets are serving Hal Al and the poultry people Inghams and steggles also. Most of the abattoirs in Australia slaughter that way. Why are we laying down and letting this happen. We all should be outraged. I know it is a financial decision but not at the expense of your fellow Australians because some people get really upsry over the animals and some people have beliefs that really mean a lot to them.

 

[LifeChoices]

I guess because we are



Trust me, no one wants to watch this to the end - most disturbing. I think I made it to the three minute mark.