Whether it's Western governments or the Chinese law-makers, cruelty is tacitly sponsored by them for not making certain practices outlawed.

In Australia the government is happy to do nothing about chickens living in appalling conditions in crowded cages.

So many abuses that are tolerated by our ruling elite, including the hideous live cattle trade to countries that are an Auschwitz for beef and sheep exports.

No doubt it's because the cattle barons pay huge bribes to both the major parties at election time that this filthy trade in misery is not dealt with.

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"'I cried every day': British vet's harrowing mission to give sight back to bears blinded in China's cruel 'farms' that harvest their bile for medicine

    Claudia Hartley became first vet to perform cataract surgery on moon bear
    They are starved and locked in cramped cages while their bile is harvested
    Bile, once used in tonic, is now in shampoos, toothpastes and eye drops
    She first heard of their plight in 2008 and has rescued sight of eight bears
    Up to another 20,000 endangered bears thought to still be trapped on farms".


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mantra wrote on Aug 17^th, 2014 at 9:46am:


It is to Australia's eternal shame that our government allows halal killing of our livestock here in Australia ~ a practice that is otherwise by law deemed to be cruel and unlawful if committed outside of religious sanction.

How pathetic is that?

Perhaps the government could sponsor Aztec human sacrifices too under the protection of this being a 'religious right'?

How about the tossing of live goats onto bonfires to propitiate the Gods as certain African tribes do?

Why not have our own Sun bear bile draining farms here in Australia run by our Chinese community as their 'cultural right' to maintain their traditions under the aegis of 'Multicultural Australia'?

mantra wrote on Aug 17^th, 2014 at 9:46am:


It makes me made as hell that bastards like Abbott and the Labor leaders have the power to stop these practices at the stroke of a pen, but won't do it because their parties get bribery-funding from the very people who make a living from these cruelties.

It's one of the major flaws of democracy that political parties depend upon funding and the votes of minorities to push them across the line at election times.

cods wrote on Aug 18^th, 2014 at 8:01am:


A more humane version of halal killing could be supervised here in Australia before the carcasses are sent overseas in deep-freeze cargo ships.

cods wrote on Aug 20^th, 2014 at 7:56am:


We have every right to openly criticise the cruel practices of other countries just as we have the moral right to criticise and report neighbours who are mistreating their pets.

cods wrote on Aug 20^th, 2014 at 7:56am:


13000 people employed in this trade?

That damned Wilberforce who stopped the slave trade has a lot to answer for. I wonder how many people he thoughtlessly put out of work by raging against the slave trade?

Our government can stop this cruel trade in gradual steps over a period of a couple of years while new arrangements are made for selling these livestock to non-Muslim countries.

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