Dickie is a privileged individual at OLO and so has enlarged the scope of informal authority he feels entitled to wield.

Be careful what you say to Dickie you might be disciplined by the moderator.

Dickie is an expert at feigning obtuseness. It has to be a pretence because Dickie consistently chooses to miss the point of many postings.

The main point Dickie -- (in lower case letters for the moderator) And yet these "over the top, zealous, misinformed greenies" are raving on about this culling like it is the end of civilisation as we know it.

MyOpinion -- my apologies as I did not mean to insinuate anything in your direction. Merely, attempting to reinforce your points by highlighting a current issue of human suffering that ALs seem immune to. I also wonder if they ever do anything other than protest and harass others to change their behaviour and value systems.

oooooooooow. Bitch fight!

Human sensibility! Rock and a hard place! It never stops. So? What are you going to do about it?

Roo's or humans?

EVO

Where are you Nicky?

Good news awaits you.

Jordanian King’s sister, Princess Alia, armed with Animals Australia’s footage and emails of concern from Australia, has personally intervened in the issue of the disgraceful abattoir in Jordan which was portrayed on the ABC. As a result, this brutal abattoir and also the main livestock market where Animals Australia investigators filmed cruel treatment of Australian sheep have been closed down. This outcome, which will save countless animals from unimaginable terror and suffering, could not have been achieved without the efforts of AA and the Action Team members.

Animals Australia’s work in exposing the cruelty endured by Australian live exported animals in the Middle East is also resulting in much needed change for non-Australian animals in the region.

Importantly they have been able to reveal just how flawed and misleading one of the live export industry’s public defences of their trade is. We regularly hear their carefully crafted PR mantra that they ‘need to export animals in order to improve welfare in the Middle East’. As Animals Australia’s achievements in Jordan and Egypt have proven, it is exposing and opposing cruelty that creates change—not participating in it by supplying millions of animals each year to be cruelly treated.

I understand Princess Alia has expressed her heart-felt thanks to Animals Australia for documenting this evidence and to their supporters for bringing their concerns to the attention of the Jordanian Royal Family.

Bye for now.

Hi all

Dickie
I'm sorry. I got suspended for 24 hours or so because I hurt PALE's feelings on the other thread (I quoted some stuff from the 2006 "Animal Welfare" thread).

I did know about that, AA sent out a media release and it's wonderful news. I happened to be watching a tape of that footage again just recently, and that poor bull will never leave my mind. He was hit so hard with a metal bar that it brought him to his knees, trembling. The he was hacked to death with machetes.

Now we must all keep up the pressure. The resumption of the trade in cattle to Egypt is just a disaster. Those savages had two "MoU"s in place which were shown to be absolutely worthless (as are all the others of course, and the OIE Standards, since there are clearly no sanctions imposed). There is another thread about this, but no-one seems to be responding to that one.

Australia asked Egypt for an explanation after the last expose, but at the last time I checked, Egypt had not even condescended to reply. As for a "new abattoir" for Australian animals, what does that achieve, beyond some kind of bizarre salvaging of the government's conscience? And what are the guarantees - for Australian or indeed any animals, while we keep supplying them?

Anyway - I'm back now, and great to catch up.

Cheers
Nicky

Oops, Nicky and others will now have to eat their words about
them all being a bunch of savages in the Middle East. AA are
clearly learning from farmers, that it is better to work with
people and progress, then just call them names as Nicky does.

Which has been the point all along.

With all this drama over mulesing, many farmers are switching
to meat sheep, which don't need mulesing. What that will mean
however is extra lambs, as they are far more fertile. So we'll
need extra ships to cope with rising numbers shipped to the
ME.

Running unmulesed merinos would be cruel, as most farmers know,
but the animal liberation brigade know too little about livestock
to even understand that fact. Ignorance is bliss in Nicky's world!