Merry Christmass belly and John Dickie PF Yabbs and anybody reading this thread.

Dickie a speciaL thanks for your common deceny towards our fellow creatures and know you are making a difference.

Christmass Eve 2007

Ooh dickie, you have given me a few ideas now. I of course run
a commercial operation and last year in fact rented out a few
of my rams. The result was lots of fun for the boys, 420 lambs
on the ground and a healthy cheque for me!

There is no reason I could not start a new service. Given
your expression of love for sheep as pets, perhaps little old
animal libber ladies like yourself would like to rent a companion for the weekend.

Sounds like an interesting new business venture for me, some
fun and games for my boys and some err companionship for you
little old ladies who clearly love sheep :)

Merry Xmas!

dickie, Andrew Spencer is trying very hard to justify his over paid job. The amount of money APL throw away on incompetent staff when their members are going broke is criminal. We should be demanding cuts in that office immediately.

The productivity commission has ruled that there is no case for protection methods against imported pork. The WTO rules are tough and it is the drought that is mostly affecting the pig industry: along with the fact that they refuse to listen to consumers and change their factory farming methods.

Intensive pork is a hard sell and it is only going to get worse as people are making ethical choices about the food they eat.

Intensive piggeries have been closing their doors at a rapid rate and the latest PC decision will close a lot more that were hanging on in the hope of a favourable decision.

The pork industry, in my opinion, backed itself into this corner with bad marketing "the other white meat" and promoting pork as a 'cheap' meat. Along with the facts that intensive pork is dry and tasteless and grown in conditions that people find appalling, I think the writing is on the wall for them.

"The pork industry, in my opinion, backed itself into this corner with bad marketing "the other white meat" and promoting pork as a 'cheap' meat. Along with the facts that intensive pork is dry and tasteless and grown in conditions that people find appalling, I think the writing is on the wall for them."

PF, I do believe you are spot on.

Yesterday, at a festive gathering of good-natured friends, I overheard the hushed remarks about the roast pork on offer as being "dry and tasting like card-board."

Naturally, I was unable to resist joining in that conversation!

Perhaps, I shall email them the following video though knowledge can create anguish in those of "delicate" nature who prefer to see or hear no evils whilst feasting on the flesh of tortured pigs:

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=meet_your_meat&Player=flv

PF
Australian Pork assured me they were branching out and opening new Free Range Farms.
When I questioned them where? they went on to say several of their members were branching out.
This conversation took place three months ago when I contacted them to offer a meeting with Russian Business men to create several free range farms and other projects.
We invited Australian Pork and Woolworths to the table.

Ah, We are already on to that was the reply.
Umm I said may I enquire WHERE these new farms are to be established.?
Caught out they mentioned a few names of intensive breeders.

When I pointed out they were intensive breeders they claimed they were "re doing their pens."

When I pointed out that Free Range required much more land they replied they HAD required more.

When we offered to donate funds after seeing the new area where these pigs would be free ranged they claimed they had plenty of funding.

I know you are not surprised but I thought I would put on record on OLO what lies these Australian Pork heads "spin."

APL policy:

Tell them what they want to hear, but NEVER put it in writing.
Protect the intensive farmers at all costs, even at the expense of free range members.

I believe they HAD great plans of developing a free range standard and label that encompassed pigs grown out in sheds. They will now try and save the pork industry by duping the public and trying to cash in on free range demand. There is a lot happening to prevent that and public support and awareness is the key.

http://www.pigout.net.au

Have you done the survey yet?