Allegations that feed additives, including drugs used to treat asthma, are being given to Australian cattle in Indonesian feedlots have the potential to again threaten the future of the live export industry.
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: An embarrassment to the Australian public
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The live animal trade
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Violence, animals and the live export trade
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Live export industry’s hypocrisy on animal activists
A 2009 report shows that the cattle industry regarded animal welfare as a marketing problem, that needed more funding for ads.
Crikey Says: Marketing won’t save the live export industry now
As late as 2009 the cattle industry itself viewed concerns about live cattle exports as simply the “rhetoric” of “animal activists” and thought the solution was to spend more money on a marketing campaign.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: NSW Police have banned access to Crikey
NSW Police have banned access to Crikey from its computers. Bureaucrats, police officers and even the media unit are required to fill in a special “request” form for access.
CSIRO diet is bad for the environment
Both a Lancet article and cancer report squarely indicate that the CSIRO is swimming like a dying salmon against a huge waterfall with its high red meat, high methane, totally misnamed “Total Wellbeing Diet”, writes Geoff Russell.
