Following the heart-breaking death of Ayen Chol, a young child from Melbourne who was mauled by a dog widely reported to be a pit bull crossbreed, there has been both new State legislation and intensified public debate about dog breeds and breed-types. Of late the excitement has been around the pit bull terrier or American […]
Continue ReadingThe act of killing, not least when it is violent, can strike us as repellent and also as strangely fascinating. In certain circumstances, such as when it goes beyond a crime of passion and receives a degree of social approval, the phenomenon of killing calls out for explanation. What leads us to kill and how […]
Continue ReadingDear Editor, Export of live animals for slaughter is a result of one motive – there is money to be made. In the article, the first response that “Australia has an obligation to animals to continue the trade to countries with mediocre welfare records” beggars belief. It is painfully obvious that the Meat and Livestock […]
Continue ReadingThe exposure on Four Corners of the treatment of Australian cattle exported to Indonesia had a number of interesting features. For one thing, few people would have seen so graphically such relentless and extreme animal cruelty. As everyone now knows, cattle in the abattoirs variously suffered eye gouging, repeated throat slashing, goading, dragging, thrashing, and […]
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