by FLOSS FLOSS | Dec 9, 2012 | News
By ANNE GREENAWAY Dec. 1, 2012, 4 a.m. IN MAY 2011, Four Corners’, A Bloody Business, opened the collective eyes of the Australian public to the horrific way in which Australian cattle ended their lives in Indonesian abattoirs. These horrific and brutal acts...
by FLOSS FLOSS | Dec 9, 2012 | News
RSPCA approved farming labels challenged By ANNE GREENAWAY Nov. 24, 2012. A recent assessment by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) rejected an application by the Australian Egg Corporation relating to a free-range certification trademark....
by FLOSS FLOSS | Oct 31, 2012 | Media, News
Newcastle Herald LETTER: Death-row pets don’t need to die By ANIMAL RESCUE GROUPS Oct. 26, 2012, 5:06 a.m. EVERY year more than 250,000 dogs and cats are killed in our shelters and pounds. The number keeps rising and the cruelty and neglect associated with it...
by FLOSS FLOSS | Oct 31, 2012 | News
Newcastle Herald OPINION: Poor rescue groups shame rich RSPCA By DAVID ATWELL Oct. 23, 2012, 7:38 p.m. EVERY year thousands of companion animal rescue volunteers save thousands of dogs and cats from pounds and shelters across the state. These community-based...
by FLOSS FLOSS | Oct 31, 2012 | News
LETTER: Come together, now Newcastle Herald By GEOFF DAVIDSON Oct. 29, 2012, 7:13 a.m. JEFF Corbett (‘‘A dog’s life, or death’’ Herald 26/10) – there is a link between the RSPCA’s kill rates and puppy breeding, but not just the one assumed. So few animals pass...