Geoff Russell
Geoff Russell is a mathematician by training and long time member of Animal Liberation in SA. He has picked up crippled and dead ducks left behind by duck shooters in four states of Australia. His first book is “CSIRO Perfidy” (http://perfidy.com.au), an expose of the most environmentally damaging diet on the planet ... the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet.
Articles by Geoff Russell
Stop using Fukushima for scare mongering
Jim Green’s recent Punch piece on Fukushima accuses Barry Brook and I of having an “indifference to human death and…... Read more
Unbridled hypocrisy over a pie with dead horse
Where would we be without DNA testing? Otherwise who knows what might be lurking under your tomato sauce. Possibly dead…... Read more
Concern for wildlife is sorely lacking
“Stock losses”. The words just rolled off a weary farmer’s tongue on a recent news report on the fires. Lip…... Read more
You’d have to be batty to gun down these critters
In 2008, the Queensland Labor Government banned shotgunning flying foxes in orchards in response to the Queensland Animal Welfare Advisory…... Read more
What’s on the menu for lunch in Rio?
Barnaby Joyce objected with characteristic sophistication to Peter Singer getting the nation’s top honour last week, the Companion of the…... Read more
A Dateline story bursting with hot air but not facts
How does a journalist do a story on a subject they know nothing about? This is a question which has…... Read more
Fukushima was no disaster, no matter how you spin it
The Australian Conservation Foundation is having an anti-uranium rally on Sunday to mark “one year since the start of the…... Read more
The ethics of feeding off the fat of the land
Wildlife harvesting advocate Professor Mike Archer AM has been geeing up the anti-vegetarian ork armies with an article putting the…... Read more
NEWFLASH: Plants do not have feelings
I want to conduct an experiment. I’ve tried it at home and reckon it’s ready for a bigger venue. The…... Read more
Make boverty history
Unless you have been hiding under a rock for some months, you will realise that people are starving in the…... Read more
Cycling in Aussie cities needs some Swiss velocity
I’m cycling on a side street crossing a major suburban arterial road in Adelaide. At the intersection, I scan left…... Read more
You won’t be stunned to hear that slaughter is brutal
When Prime Minister Gillard defended the resumption of live exports to Indonesia, she was questioned by Greens MP Adam Bandt…... Read more
China is leading the way in tackling climate change
It’s time for a quick quiz. 1. In Italy, people marched and voted against nuclear power recently. Every Australian news…... Read more
Katter can’t count, but there are meatier issues at stake
According to Bob Katter on ABC’s Q&A last Monday night, stopping the live export of cattle to Indonesia would add…... Read more
A raw deal for cucumbers
Did nuclear power kill any Germans prior to the announcement last week of their plans to phase out nuclear power?…... Read more
Slaughterhouse live: Our bloody cattle exports
This story was written before I had seen the Four Corners special ‘A bloody business’. I had the intention of…... Read more
Seeing red over the Cancer Council’s meat hypocrisy
The World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AIRC) get together and publish thick reports every 10…... Read more
Chernobyl conspiracies - where are the bodies?
Anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott has argued that the nuclear industry is “conducting a whatever-it-takes propaganda campaign” and distorting scientific evidence…... Read more
Cancer deaths in Japan will be from alcohol and ciggies
The after effects of the quake and tsunamis in Japan will cause clear and on-going pain and suffering for years,…... Read more
Meat: Why Tim Flannery is wrong
The recent revelation that new Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery has a contract with Meat and Livestock Australia shouldn’t be a…... Read more
Guns don’t kill ducks, heartless bastards kill ducks
It’s been a weird year for weather. Irrigators who haven’t been careful with what they wished for have had their…... Read more
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Will Pope Francis have the vision to tackle this?
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Advocating risk management is not “victim blaming”
In a world in which there are still people who subscribe to the vile notion that certain victims of sexual…
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From: Hasbro, go straight to gaol, do not pass go
Tim says:
They should update other things in the game too. Instead of a get out of jail free card, they should have a Dodgy Lawyer card that not only gets you out of jail straight away but also gives you a fat payout in compensation for daring to arrest you in the first place. Instead of getting a hotel when you… [read more]From: A guide to summer festivals especially if you wouldn’t go
Kel says:
If you want a festival for older people or for families alike, get amongst the respectable punters at Bluesfest. A truly amazing festival experience to be had of ALL AGES. And all the young "festivalgoers" usually write themselves off on the first night, only to never hear from them again the rest of… [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
Superman needs saving
Can somebody please save Superman? He seems to be going through a bit of a crisis. Eighteen months ago,… Read more
