Free Range Meat Suppliers

If we are going to boycott certain suppliers of food for their cruel practices, we need to encourage the success of those that prove they will do the right thing. The link below is to a source of humane alternative suppliers posted on the RSPCA website.

Humane food shopping

Here's an article about a free range pig farm from the Queensland Courier Mail, September, 2009

Gooralie Free Range

Australian cruelty exposed.

Let me say at the outset that I am not a vegetarian or vegan. Animals can be killed HUMANELY for food. It's torturing them for weeks or sometimes years before-hand that I find appalling. And the reason this occurs is that the greater majority of people do not know it is occurring.

Normal people will have no part in animal cruelty, but if their complicity is kept from them, how can they do anything about it?

We really need to stop buying pork. The conditions 98% of pigs are kept in is truly disgusting.

Consumers have the ultimate power in ridding the country of cruel animal practices. Today, many industries simply do not exist because their products were no longer wanted. The free market delivered the heavy blow to close these unwanted businesses down.

Check the link below for the honest truth on the pork industry in this country. We can do better than this.

savebabe.com

It's not hard to help

In our local newspaper, I ran across an article on The Animal Rescue Site. It has sponsors that donate food if enough people click on their ads. The site address is

www.theanimalrescuesite.com.

It's American based, but their work looks truly worthy of a look.

I emailed a letter to Ipswich city council and did receive a standard reply. We'll see how this pans out.

Do animals like Rodeos?

Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale has been asked to ban rodeos on council land. There are several councilors who oppose this.

http://www.qt.com.au/story/2010/03/13/rodeos-under-attack-from-activists/

For the people who say rodeos are not cruel; just how much fun is a calf having when its jerked to a stop, slammed to the ground and tied up while a bunch of drunken hicks cheer and clap?

I always believed that rodeos where an American tradition with very little relevance to Australia anyway. Perhaps that is my ignorance. For anyone in the vicinity, here is the address to write to, so that your views can be voiced.

Ipswich City Council
PO Box 191

Ipswich
QLD 4305
council@ipswich.qld.gov.