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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-give-the-gift-of-cruelty-this-christmas/ Considering the comments posted on previous articles on The Punch, it’s safe to say that the issue of animal experimentation for medical research is a controversial topic, often generating strong views from largely polarised positions. When it comes to the specific testing of cosmetics on animals however, clearly the jury is in. The vast majority of us consider it cruel and unnecessary to subject animals to painful tests merely for the sake of our own vanity. In fact, in late 2008 Humane Research Australia commissioned a public opinion poll to gauge the public’s understanding and view of animal experimentation. As expected, 87 per cent of respondents were opposed to the use of animals in testing cosmetics. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-give-the-gift-of-cruelty-this-christmas/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-give-the-gift-of-cruelty-this-christmas/#item10126 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/shattered-nation-rallies-behind-a-bunch-of-sheep/ They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/shattered-nation-rallies-behind-a-bunch-of-sheep/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/shattered-nation-rallies-behind-a-bunch-of-sheep/#item9953 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/another-bloody-business-live-exports-dead-sheep/ The title of ABC’s Four Corners program ‘Another bloody business…’ really said it all. For the second year running viewers were shocked and appalled by vision of horrific treatment of Australian exported animals – this time sheep – and this time in Pakistan. Many Australians are today outraged that the ALP, Coalition and rural lobby groups continue to defend an indefensible trade where the cost of ‘mistakes’ and ‘isolated incidents’ is not determined in dollars and cents, but in mass animal cruelty and suffering. For years, Animals Australia and RSPCA Australia have spoken about the unacceptable risks involved in live animal export. The factors outside of our control once animals leave Australian shores are numerous. ‘Pakistan’ provided another chapter in an ongoing story few Australians will be proud to recount to our grandchildren.  feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/another-bloody-business-live-exports-dead-sheep/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/another-bloody-business-live-exports-dead-sheep/#item9921 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/for-the-love-of-dog/ My childhood dog, Neddy, had manky bald bits and he’d scoot across the lawn on his bum whenever we had company. He was partial to trying to have sex with inappropriate things. But we could dress him up and he’d sigh with martyred forbearance and let us photograph him. Our cats were called Soft and Stupid, and Hard and Hairy. Later there was Sophie, and Fergus, and Sam. And of course long-forgotten goldfish who always got flushed. And rats called Romeo and Juliet. Juliet ate Romeo. I think it may have been my fault for forgetting to feed them. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/for-the-love-of-dog/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/for-the-love-of-dog/#item9562 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/animal-cruelty-a-repugnant-and-really-stupid-idea/ There has been recent public uproar over an experiment conducted at University of Adelaide. Researchers have shaken anaesthetised lambs to death in an attempt to prove whether shaking alone is sufficient to produce brain injury and mortality, or whether additional head impact is required. To quote from the research paper itself, “Nine anaesthetised lambs were manually grasped under the axilla and vigorously shaken with sufficient force to snap the head back and forth onto the chest…” During the experiment, three of the lambs died unexpectedly (to the researchers at least). The remaining lambs were killed after six hours and left overnight. The next day, brains, spinal cord and eyes were collected for examination. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/animal-cruelty-a-repugnant-and-really-stupid-idea/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/animal-cruelty-a-repugnant-and-really-stupid-idea/#item8980 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/animal-experiments-arent-going-to-cure-me-from-cancer/ Lying on a cold table in an unfamiliar place and undergoing a core biopsy was probably one of the most traumatic events of my life. I was frightened, confused, hurting and, yes, I cried - but not just for myself. As I lay there, experiencing a needle digging around inside me and having small pieces of flesh cut from my body, I thought about the animals in laboratories who are subjected to similar experiences. Of course, I had been given some analgesic, the process was explained to me and ultimately it was for my own benefit… not so the case for lab animals. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/animal-experiments-arent-going-to-cure-me-from-cancer/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/animal-experiments-arent-going-to-cure-me-from-cancer/#item8561 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/aussie-shame-on-animal-cruelty-cruels-world-efforts/ Australia is a proud and beautiful country. The people are warm, progressive, well-educated and known across the globe for their outstanding hospitality. It is no wonder that Australia ranks No 2 on the global human development index. This is why the world watched in shock last year when we became aware of the horrific circumstances that Australia’s live export industry was willing to supply animals to Indonesia. While Animals Australia’s investigation and the subsequent award-winning ABC Four Corners program generated outrage across Australia, the images of Australian cattle being eye-gouged, kicked, whipped and tortured created a similar outpouring of rage across the globe. The vision that we had of Australia as an ethical and forward-thinking nation changed in that moment. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/aussie-shame-on-animal-cruelty-cruels-world-efforts/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/aussie-shame-on-animal-cruelty-cruels-world-efforts/#item7888 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Enjoy-your-porterhouse-but-consider-the-slaughterhouse/ “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.” So goes a rather weary old dog of a proverb attributed to Paul McCartney. Admittedly, his sentiment makes me as misty-eyed as the next idealist softie. But in light of the latest abattoir cruelty scandal, I need to have a quiet word with Paul. “Glass walls” don’t come much clearer than the hidden footage uncovered by the ABC and subsequently splattered across our news last week. You don’t exactly need Windex to see inside the pure barbarism of NSW’s Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Enjoy-your-porterhouse-but-consider-the-slaughterhouse/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Enjoy-your-porterhouse-but-consider-the-slaughterhouse/#item7765 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/would-you-kill-for-a-job/ Who would work in an abattoir? Most of us have done jobs we didn’t want to do because we needed the cash. There are plenty of dirty, smelly, difficult, revolting jobs out there that usually get left to immigrants, to the uneducated, to the desperate. Slaughtering animals is something most people would turn their noses up at, but someone has to do it. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/would-you-kill-for-a-job/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/would-you-kill-for-a-job/#item7737 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/other-stuff-to-be-angry-about-today-with-video/ Once at an NRL match, Wests Tigers fullback Tim Brasher hurled a small novelty footy my way. Pretty sure the thing was intended for his nephew or cousin, but I snatched it, I took it home and that was that. Leaving aside the fact that a Sydney rugby league fan actually got off his backside and went to a game, there is nothing remarkable about this anecdote. Finders, keepers. Especially at sporting venues. Yet public sympathy today appears to be leaning heavily towards 14 year old obsessive Novak Djokovic fan Melissa Cook, who missed out on a shirt thrown her way. And public fury is being unleashed on the fan who snatched the shirt. feedback@thepunch.com.au (The Punch Team) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/other-stuff-to-be-angry-about-today-with-video/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/other-stuff-to-be-angry-about-today-with-video/#item7643 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 They say that sheep aren’t very bright. Some of their supporters aren’t that sharp either. They don’t seem to get politics. They don’t get that the only logical result of their campaign to unseat this apparently heartless Federal Government would be the installation of another Federal Government which cares even less about how animals are treated once they are exported overseas. I can understand people being angry, but the loss of perspective and absence of thought on this issue is quite remarkable. Talkback and the letters pages are jammed, and Government MPs are being bombarded by thousands of emails and form letters denouncing them as callous and complicit through their negligence in the brutal slaughter of several thousand sheep in Pakistan. Just 18 months after footage emerged showing Australian cattle being hacked to death in Indonesia, the call to end live exports is louder than it was last year. It was pretty loud the first time around. Much of it is understandable but a lot of it is just ludicrously over the top.