On Saturday November 10, groups across Australia came together to protest against the live animal export industry. Great, you may say. Unfortunately they also did the meat industry's work for it, promoting an increase in local slaughter.

Yes that's right, the groups want to have more animals murdered in Australia, and spent the weekend promoting the industry.

The final straw in this mess is the support the campaign is getting from the meat industry itself:

http://www.animalsaustralia.org/media/in_the_news.php?article=65

This highlights perfectly what's wrong with many animal welfare groups; when the meat industry is behind your campaign, you've lost the plot.

Animal rights and veganism are the answer to the problem (and all problems relating to animal issues), not spreading the meat industry's propaganda about "humane slaughter" (which in an oxymoron). Did the Suffragettes campaign for more humane dominance of women? Was the American Civil war fought to give black slaves a more comfortable bed in their slave quarters? No - these were abolitionist positions fought by dedicated people willing to put their freedom and even lives on the line for a cause.

It all boils down to this; animals are not property, resources, food, entertainment, test subjects, clothing or anything else people make money from - animals are not ours.

In what is hopefully a final decision on the matter, the last operating horse slaughterhouse in the US has been closed by an appeals court:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/23/bloomberg/bxhorse.php

[QUOTE]A company attorney, J. Philip Calabrese of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Cleveland, said he was disappointed at the ruling and was "assessing our options."[/QUOTE]

Hmm, let's see, options... Option 1) STOP KILLING HORSES! Option 2) see option 1

[QUOTE]Cavel, based in DeKalb, Illinois, kills as many as 60,000 horses a year, according to the court's ruling.[/QUOTE]

Not any more it doesn't.

An Australian slaughterhouse has been exposed for using cruel killing techniques:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/
Abattoir-probed-over-illegal-slaughter/2007/08/03/1185648091225.html (long URL warning).

[QUOTE]If this is now revealed as the truth, what else is going on and where?[/QUOTE]

Answer: The worst possible abuses and everywhere. From the factory farm to the slaughterhouse, the animal is simply a way to make money.

Solution: Go Veg