Conservativehippie,

You can view a youtube titled "What Did the Buddha Say About Eating Meat" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSjKt3fSziM where a Buddhist monk attacks vegetarians, with a lot of his arguments, verging on strange, crazy, hypocritical and bizarre.

Being vegetarian what have I done wrong? I keep my killing as low as possible. I had put down in my high school newsletter that I would be running an insect welfare shelter - as a joke by the magazine committee. Please note, I don't like killing insects - but am I about to kill two people in Indonesia - and leave their parents permanently damaged mentally and emotionally for the rest of their lives? No.

My dad worked in a meatworks. I honestly don't how he or any other of the workers in the factory did the work required. An animal alive one minute and killed the next.

Sorry Mr Hinch - but saying the Prime Minister has spent too much time trying to address this issue is unfair - or I could easily lecture you to bits (on a chopping block) - about the meat industry. I would assume you eat meat, so let the Prime Minister get on with trying to save these people's lives.

Beach,

Read your article from the 'NT News' and I'll have to bow to the superior knowledge of Colin Riddell on the subject of dugongs. Unlike you who has superior knowledge on everything, including dugongs, and without hearing anything from the other side of the argument I'll go along with Mr. Riddell for now.

How about the greyhounds, no comment?

Paul405,

Your red herrings never work. It is obvious that the hypocritical NSW Greens are choosy as to what animal cruelty they sensationalise, or ignore.

The cynical Trotskyist 'Watermelon' Greens, see-through green on the outside but Marxist red all of the way through, routinely support the political correctness of extreme multiculturalism that ignores and even mandates cruelty to animals.

Harpooning and taking two hours to drowning a Dugong to death, or taking the preferred pregnant females, or cutting off the flippers of sea turtles and placing them on their backs to 'store' them for consumption later that could involve removal of prized body parts while alive, are practices that were known to the Anna Bligh Labor government and Labor (with Greens preferences support) introduced the responsible law that mandated cruel slaughter to happen.

As for greyhound racing, it is not something I support for many reasons, of which animal cruelty is just one. Whereas the NSW 'Watermelon' Greens are hitching a ride on merely one aspect of cruelty in the industry to get headlines and ignoring everything else.

The NSW 'Watermelon' Greens policy is to increase the aerial drops of cruel and dangerous 1080 poison in State and national parks. 1080 is a horrific poison that affects non-target animals as well. The Greens are hypocrites and more so for their ignorance and overbearing arrogance.

Australian 1080 poison (NZ footage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrCQZ1B4ks0

Paul,

As you are a Green and know the difference between a policy statement and a media release, perhaps you could explain the meaning of Policy Statement 11. "In the development of framework agreements to facilitate treaties and other formal agreements that recognise the inherent rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples in New South Wales;"

In particular how Torres Strait Islanders have traditional rights in NSW.

Hi there IS MISE...

Now that is an interesting question;...'how Torres Strait Islanders have traditional rights in the state of New South Wales...' ? It very nearly slipped through to the keeper ?

Beach you are all over the shop on this animal cruelty issue, everywhere from the Northern Territory to New Zealand, always pitched with some stinging diatribe against The Greens. On another thread you were lampooning The Greens for failing to win even one seat in Queensland and on this one you are crediting them with legislation in that state re credulity to dugongs and turtles. I don't believe you give a rats about crudity to animals and have singled out indigenous hunting as it presents another vehicle to attack non whites in our society, peppered with your usual anti Green stance.
You had little to say about the greyhound industry and their friendly and supportive polititions. What do you have to say about how unborn calves are slaughtered in the dairy industry and their friendly and supportive polititions in the National and Liberal Parties?

http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-pregnancy.html

Care to comment before you put the milk on your next bowl of 'Coco Pops'.