Anybody catch 4 corners tonight

Brenny · Joined: 05 Apr 2011 Location: Westpac Centre

Just out of curiosity, did anybody catch Four Corners tonight? 30/05/2011??

If so, have any thoughts?

Tannin · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 11:33 pm

What is it about?

annewilo · Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Location: Victoria Park

I knew the story was coming but I had to turn it over as I just couldn't watch the cruelty anymore. All those poor animals and those brutes.

Brenny · Joined: 05 Apr 2011 Location: Westpac Centre

Tannin · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 12:37 am

Ah, thankyou. I think I'll follow Anne's advice.

pies4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2002 Location: rosebud,vic,australia

i was watching it,but had 2 stop b4 it made me throw up,i couldnt stand watching anymore animal cruelty like that.

annewilo · Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Location: Victoria Park

Brenny · Joined: 05 Apr 2011 Location: Westpac Centre

Was actually a very good doco. They do get monitored and trained on it. The government and the cattle industry in Australia are well aware of it and what's going on.

If you can stomach it, it's very much worth the watch. Will turn you off meat. Even the humane way of stunning the cattle first is a turn off.

Didaksgoal · Joined: 12 Mar 2004

It was very hard to watch, and I had to change programs. Something needs to be done ASAP. The inhumane slaughter and treatment was shocking.

Tannin · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 3:21 pm

http://www.theage.com.au/environment/animals/live-cattle-exports-to-some-abattoirs-suspended-20110531-1fdsn.html

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

thank god for that - i could not watch it all either,

if you want to add your voice please see link

http://humanechain.org.au/take-action?j=12919334&e=capsules4hire@bigpond.com&l=2094912_HTML&u=121524566&mid=88761&jb=0

its really easy, letter writing tool to your local member.

please guys, add your voice, the more the better.

i have supported many of the campaigns through WSPA, buying honey for rescued bears in asia, and humane needles for rabbid dogs in vietnam.

please help these poor cattle, this is a national disgrace.

stui magpie · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 7:38 pm

I watched the video on the Aged website. No excuse for treating an animal like that, not even ignorance.

swoop42 · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:34 pm

Some cultures have no respect for life.

Human or animal.

Tannin · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:38 pm

^ just so. The Javanese Empire has carried on in exactly the same manner as its friends and mentors from Imperial Japan.

pietillidie · Joined: 07 Jan 2005

No worries about putting a swift stop to that, that's for sure. Poor old beasts of the earth. There are no doubt plenty of simple things that can be done to eliminate that sort of thing.

But as always this comes with an enormous caveat, namely that we need to be careful judging things outside of our own historical-economic circumstances. The closer to the edge of survival, the cheaper all life tends to become. Some peoples seem to stumble upon humaneness early for whatever peculiar fortune, but for others, including ourselves, it comes very late in economic development.

So there's no need to make this a specific cultural matter. It's clearly a general human problem. To put it into context, watch this documentary of the poor Indonesians who work in the sulphur mines on the edge of Indonesian volcanoes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2NYNdoMtEk