20 years ago I used to know a fellow who set up a rabbit meat business in suburbia Melbourne supplying restaurants etc. with fresh organically grown bush meat, until they put him out of business for some stupid sentimental reason.Has anyone (not European by birth) ever tasted smoked or fresh horse meat? It is a prized delicacy over there.With so many slaughterhouses going bust or out of biz how hard would it be to create a "organically grown horse" meat export business? Great idea for Aboriginal horsemen as drovers and keepers?

Pale with respect, horses are not native to this country, we bought them we let them get out of control.
In wild herds they are rarely in good nick, often worm infestered at the least.
Damage done to the environment can be extremely bad to the habituate of native animals .
I am content to have animal welfare in the hands of people who both care for them but understand sometimes we must cull.
It is well worth repeating so very many animal lovers do far less for humans in need than they do animals.
One point is the thread can we trust DOCS?
every week another dead or dreadful tortured child is bought to our notice, failures to look after children yet we have double the posts here that thread has?

Fester
Quite rightly so. The Governments- both State and Federal have a duty of care. These programes must be introduced now.
Also people can say its global warming but the fires that our fathers and grandfathers managed through the bush were not as bad because the stock kept the growth down.
There is good feed and plenty of it in the areas where they are shooting.
In QLD we require about four five star accomadation boot camps to bring this online as a tourist attraction. this is the very thing the Aboriginal people need. By the way if you are going to shoot an Animal you do it from ground. You dont fly accross like a coward leaving hundreds lying and suffering for days and little foals without their Mums to die slowly.
Thankfully the international people are up in arms and I hope to be able to let those of you who do catre know of progects to do this in another way.
the trick is for people to all work together. Only by working together will we acheive the results that we need to make the government show some humanity.
They are annoyed they were caught out because they told the others to hide the carcuss from the public.

Belly
I dont mean to get cross with you all the time- I really dont.
Has it ever occured to you the two problems could both be handledin the same manner?
We need some contol over birth rate.
The public of course care about both.
Why or why do you put it on DOCS instead of going back to the drawing board and check out what checks are in place.
As the population grows you will have more cases unless some laws are put into place.
Putting more staff on in docs isnt the answer.
Taking steps to curb the type of people allowed to raise children IS .
Now as to your argument- We are SICK TO DEATH of people using kids as an excuse to turn their backs on cruelty toAnimals.
Church leaders are in particular very very good at this.
Cruel is cruel and they both are just as important as the other.

Pale ,

I agree - cut back on environment destroying people but DEFINITELY do the same for environment destroying brumbies in National and State parks.

Put them in museums - the brumbies I mean .