Animal Rights...again.

Simple points in simple point form...things to remember.

1. Animal Rights and Animal Welfare are 2 completely different things. One wants to improve the conditions and treatment of animals to humane and acceptable standards. The other is worrisome cult driven ethos of wanting to ban Live Export, the consumption of meat indeed all animal based food products and wants all animals "released" - There are plenty of "Animal Rights" nutters hiding amongst the genuine, reasonable Animal Welfare groups. Sift them out.
2. The "Moral" dimension. Apparently meat and other animal based products (not restricted to food) is "immoral". It isn't. Its just one of the usual hocus pocus vague over statements lobbed like a hand grenade. Its designed to go off before you have a chance to throw it back or look at it and disarm it. Once you know how to crack it open and look at it closely you soon find the nutters are throwing a pin and holding the grenade. Once you get to this point, expect personal attack or indignation...generally both. Eating meat is neither moral nor immoral
3. Milk is rape - Yeah well that'll take about 2 seconds to dismiss. Its bizarre if not sad that we have to put up with this rubbish. Again, they're throwing the pin at you as they scurry back to their trench tightly clenching their own grenade. They get away with it every time no one calls them to account. Milk is not a sex thing, its a food. Lets spell that out big & slowly F-O-O-D. It's what its for, its what it does its what it designed to be. Food is collected like honey from the hive and sold. Tomatoes are a great plant, the actual fruit is part of the tomatoes reproductive organs but no one is mortifiably stupid enough to say picking "tommies" and eating them is a vile act of debauched rape.
4. Investigators - If they're trespassing they are criminals. Interesting thought they have been known to defend this practice by playing the moral high ground card. That doesn't work and kinda looks pretty sad too. There is no legal defence for breaking the law under moral grounds. None, never has been, never will be. If you're a criminal, you're a criminal not a moral crusader. I cannot break into a vegan's house, put in secret cameras to see if they're drinking milk or nibbling on beef jerky. If they did those "immoralities" would you argue they do it mainly in the shower & install cameras there? Hideous lie at best.
5. RSPCA - Slowly seeing Animals Welfare being replaced with Animal Rights. I'd expect this organisation to be re-born and reinvented in years to come, especially as its likely it government role will probably be lost as impartiality is exposed. Recently come under an WA Upper House Committee & haven't read a report nor sure its available yet. I expect no shocks but lots of process driven charter derailments.
6. Animal Rights groups forming alliances with Meat Worker Unions. Yes its happening and its stunning on every level. Currently the idea is to keep slaughter works here the only place to kill and process me and to ban Live Export. Problem is, if you draw a line from Geraldton to Cairns, maybe Brisbane...you'll need close to 30 abattoirs to process all the current Live Export animals. Then you need all the staff that currently equates to 457 visas. There's not enough Australian staff in the south. Then there's the factor that its not financially viable for many of the overseas customers, they want Live because its affordable & sustainable to them.

And I can see this point form exercise blowing out. I'll add to it periodically