Lamb Shanks on the Australia Day BBQ?

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Edited by CJ Tointon

"Australia Day" seems to be an excuse to bring out the worst kitsch and violence amongst the carnivorous population of the country. Meat and Livestock Australia's latest ad suggests blowtorching a vegan's food! It encourages us to barbeque animals; more specifically, the babies of animals, since the younger they are the tenderer they are to eat (apparently). Doesn't that make you ashamed of being Australian? But what's it all about?

Well, just watch a few seconds of Vegan Australia's "Hilarious Behind the Scenes" clip. They've used the word "hilarious" to get the inquisitive amongst us to see that there's nothing 'hilarious' at all about lamb-slaughter. And once you've opened the clip; you just have to watch it until, like me, you sicken at the sight of it all. Then you realise that if you eat lamb on Australia Day (or any other day) you are eating a frightened, terrified, panicked animal that has been brutally executed. By eating your Australia Day barbequed lamb, you are literally eating terror! Imagine how that affects your finely tuned body and your sensitivity in general? Is it any wonder there's so much cancer and other deadly health conditions killing off the carnivores.

If you see footage of lambs living in safe conditions (say at a sanctuary) you'd see something you've perhaps forgotten - lambs have tails! 'Down on the farm' their tails are routinely cut off. When a lamb is happy, it wags its tail. It likes to wag its tail - just like the family dog does! Presumably, the 'Meat' people, knowing their lambs will never be happy, regard a wagging tail as superfluous, although they'll give us some other reason for it being amputated.


The following statistic may not affect you if you are a 'lamb-flesh-lover'; BUT, well over one thousand of these babies are executed every day in Australia - that's forty thousand a month! This sort of massacre almost makes it a moral imperative to become vegan! But the suggestion in these ads is that to be a true-blue, ridgy-didge Aussie you must eat lamb on the 26th January. For any intelligent, free-thinking person, however, no clever or 'hilarious' TV ad can convince us that it's UN-Australian to avoid eating lamb on Australia Day - or any other day!