Cameron Blewett

This article was written by the founder of VeganPolice.com.au, Cameron Blewett. Cameron is a long term vegan (30+yrs), and is passionate about veganism, and helping people to understand more about it and giving other animals equal consideration. You can find Cameron's other rants on his website, CameronBlewett.blog

Teys Brothers Slaughterhouses

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According to their About Us page; Teys is the largest Australian-owned and second-largest beef processing company in Australia, processing one million cattle and turning over more than $AUD1.2B per annum. Teys comprises four modern beef processing facilities, a 30,000-head feedlot, a tannery, wholesaling divisions, and a value-added facility. It amazes me that they have changed … Read more

A random day in Brisbane

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I originally sat down and wrote a blog post about Animal Liberation V’s Vegan Education from a neutral perspective, to give the reader an opportunity to make up their own mind.  Except, by the time that I had finished it neither position came out a clear winner to me.  I had managed to make a pretty convincing argument for both sides.

As I was sitting at a train station going over what I had written making the odd correction here and there, a fully laden cattle train rolled on by, heading for the Dinmore slaughterhouse.

Looking at all the sad and confused faces on the cattle that went by, and whilst we humans may think that they have no idea where they are going, you can see it in their eyes. They know that where they are going, can’t be a good place.  They were wet and probably cold because today was a wet and cold day in Brisbane, and there is no shelter from anything once they are loaded on to the cattle wagon.

It was a depressing and emotional thing to see the first wagon full of sentient beings looking out at you as they went past.  They are looking for someone that can explain to them what they did that was so wrong to deserve being treated like this.

Then the second wagon rolls by and all the eyes looking out at you between the horizontal bars have that look, that for those of us that have an affinity for animals is just too painful to bear, and it just reaches down into your soul.  The eyes were the same on the third, then the forth and every other wagon after that.

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Have you been licked by a bull?

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This past weekend I had the opportunity to spend time on the property where the Charlie’s Angels Horse Rescue charity is located.

While I was there, I found out that approval has been given to a slaughterhouse in WA to kill horses for human consumption in Australia. Horses have been killed for human consumption in this country for years, though they are usually for the export market to countries in Europe and Asia.

Looking at this from a vegan perspective this doesn’t surprise me. Really, it was only a matter of time considering all the other animals that are killed for food.

And on a side note, I think it is amusing to see all the people puffing their chests with false nationalistic pride, waving the Australian flag around. Yet do nothing about the slaughter for human consumption of the iconic Australian animals, the Kangaroo, Emu and Crocodile.

Though what is even stranger is that we should remember that Australia is a nation that for generations has a proud heritage of horsemanship. From Banjo Patterson’s The man from Snowy River to the legend of The charge of the Light Brigade and in modern times the story of Gendarme and Alex Tassell from the Victorian Police Force.

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And I am back…

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Once again it has been quite a while since I posted something on here, and I thought it was time for another one.  Plus I have a few things to rant about.  After all, isn’t that what blogs are for?  🙂

So lets get started…

It would seem that the people over at the ‘forum that shall remain nameless’ are continuing on their pro-welfarism quest. Now I can’t call their rants ‘anti-abolitionist’ because in her humble opinion, a regular contributor to the forum has decided that all vegans are abolitionist, even though she isn’t vegan herself.

This is strange, because if all vegans want to see an end to animal use, why don’t they just say that? Instead they bring out all sorts of reasons why they promote welfarism and vegetarianism, none of which seem to be valid.

The main one they seem to trumpet a lot is the ‘at least we are doing something…‘. Yes, I do agree they are doing something, and that is furthering the speciesist attitudes of society. This may give them a sense of achievement with their shallow victory, such as increased cage size for layer hens, or the more people choosing ‘happy meat’. Yet it does nothing to get people to question why they are using animal products in the first place, or that we are talking about Animal Rights here. Which is the rights of ALL sentient beings not to be exploited, used/abused or treated as property.

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Copy of my last post to a certain forum

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I wasn’t going to include my last post on a particular forum on this blog.  Though I decided to in light of recent censorship by one of the moderators of one of my posts to an obviously anti-abolitionist thread.

Here is the link to the thread, if it stays up, and the post below.

Final Post.

All,

It’s been a few days since I last made a comment on many of the different threads, I was going to reply to each then decided that I would start my a new one and respond to all those that I can remember.

Whilst I am not conceding defeat, I am taking a break from this forum for who knows how long.  As the overwhelming wave of ignorance and hypocrisy is getting too great, and I do have more important things to focus on.

There are those who puff their chest up and say that this forum is all about open discussion, blah blah blah.  Yet as soon as the discussion moves away from the mutual back patting and highlights the hypocrisy of their arguments they resort to personal attacks and bullying tactics, then it usually goes to the whole proverbial pi**ing contest, “I am/have done this for the animals, what have you done?”

Further evidence of this hypocrisy is the deletion of my post, by a moderator, to a thread where I highlighted the original post breached the forum rules.  Mind you, I believe the thread was started by a moderator, so I guess that goes to show how “impartial’ the mods are…

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Hunting and conservation

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There seems to fair amount of propoganda coming from the hunting community claiming that they need to have yearly “culls” to ‘protect the species’ and assorted BS.

Now I know it is going to be hard for some readers to fathom this, and if you are shocked easily, please sit down before you read any further.

I am going to tell you now, and will stand by the following statement, hunting has about as much to do with conservation as McDonalds has to do with educating people on vegansim. Hunters hunt for their own selfish reasons and it has nothing to do with conservation whatsoever.

Now, if there are any hunters or those sympathetic to hunters reading this, before you get your flame thrower out and head straight to the comment section to tell me how ignorant and deluded I am, let’s have an objective look at the arguments/myths that the hunting fraternity use to justify the existence of this particular blood sport.

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Jockeys protest over unchanged whip rule.

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Well it appears that those precious things that wear all those pretty colours while sitting on a horses back whipping it to make it run faster are having a little cry that the Australian Racing Board (ARB) won’t reverse its ruling restricting the number of times that they able to use the whip “at their … Read more