Kangaroo slaughter protests -Viva! (UK) Director in Australia

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(My comment) ..

 

The kangaroo slaughter issue and native animals for pets issue are very

important

here in Australia. Both issues involve senseless cruelty to animals of all

ages.

Kangaroos are exploited, killed, bashed to death, joeys starve to death and

such.

The second issue of making pets of native animals is bizarre.

 

People from the Australian Museum have supported the use of native animals

as pets (ie a philosophy of getting rid of all the cats and keep poor native

animals

as pets instead!) No thought is given to the poor animals (exploit, exploit,

exploit)

and there will be those breeders who start churning out native animals for

money (who is going

to rescue the unwanted native animals once the novelty wears off and they

are dumped?

What about the emergence of feeder animals etc for native carnivores- more

suffering.?

We have enough trouble with homeless cats, dogs, rabbits and other pets

without adding

more poor lives to the unwanted poor defenceless animal lives who end up

abandoned

on the streets and in refuges).

.....Marguerite (Western Australia)

 

Fwd from Animal Liberation in Australia

 

Juliet Gellatley - the Director of the UK animal welfare organisation,Viva!

is coming to Sydney. Juliet was responsible for kangaroo meat being taken

off supermarket shelves in the UK. See Juliet and join us in participating

in the following two events, both on

 

Friday 13 July

 

First, at 12.00 - 1.15 pm:

Join us in asking for an end to

THE KILLING OF KANGAROOS

FOR THE SKIN AND MEAT TRADE

AND TO OPPOSE

THE USE OF WILDLIFE AS PETS

 

OUTSIDE THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM

CORNER OF PARK AND COLLEGE STREETS.

 

 

THEN, AT 1.30 - 3.30 PM

A DISCUSSION IN THE JUBILEE ROOM AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE

 

Hear Juliet speak on environmental, welfare and disease issues linked with

wildlife use, and mad cow and foot and mouth disease in the UK. The possibi

lity of establishing a Kangaroo Coalition will be raised.

 

Contact Halina Thompson 0407 456 683

Katherine Rogers 041 920 8132

World League for Protection of Animals Inc.

Box 211 Gladesville NSW 2111

 

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THE KANGAROO

An orphaned joey dies a pitiful death of exposure and dehydration, either i

n the putrefying pouch of the dead mother or helpless in its separation fro

m the only safe place it has ever known. In their panic, older roos who esc

ape the slaughter often suffer injuries or stress so profound they lead to

a slow, wasting death.

 

Without the guidance and example of the dominant adults which are the hunte

rs' favoured target, adolescents fail to learn the life skills essential to

healthy survival. And without those dominant adults, each mob breeds from

a steadily weakening gene pool.

 

 

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