This is so long since the last entry I am sorry. I have been so busy with baby joeys and big ones. I have some information I would like to share with you all but will take a bit of time to add it. It will be here in next week or so.
I was at a meeting for R.S.P.C.A. and Derm They are now going to let RSPCA take over their roll. It sounds good and hope it will work as the old system was not working. The Australia wide No.1300 264625 is such a good idea. In our area we are doing up flyers to put in Gas Stations , vets and shopping centres, showing how and where people can contact someone that can help if they find an injured animal.
There are a lot of wonderful people who check the pouch’s of young but in the country you are not sure where to take them. This should help.
This is Yulie, he has been in care for 5 weeks now. He is just beautiful and doing so well, he is getting to the point he doesn’t like going back into the humidicrib just wants to be with you, so days I carry him in a bag next to me to make sure he is warm and nights back into the humidicrib.
The twins are now going into the large paddock with the bigger ones . That always makes me very nervous till they settle down with the mob. They seem to have made their place with them so hopefully they will be in the next lot of releases.
It seems so easy just now I only have 5 on bottles. How easy is that! I will get some photos of the little black stripe Lily, she is adorable and so tiny.
In August I have some wonderful things happening my good friend Lynda Staker will be comming down to stay for a bit and will be doing one of her incredible lectures. She is so knowledgeable about wildlife and is always there for anyone to get help from, You should check out her latest book, “The Complete Guide to The Care of Macropods” it even has sections for the vets you would never need another another manual this is so full of information and photos.
As you know I have a cruelty page I am passionate about our wildlife and all animals I love them and would do nothing in this world to hurt them, in fact I would say they are my whole life. I received an email the other day about one of the sites possum killing. I will not take it off like I was asked to but I will put up the email and other letters I have received and you can all make your minds.
Once you have done such terrible things to animals and have since been told to stop then you think it is alright because you dont do it anymore, wrong. All animals have feelings and family groups . People have to start seeing what some of us are doing to them, the show on the cattle was a start as awful as it was , it needed to be shown so people see how they are treated. and not only the cattle but the chickens , the whales the baby seals. It is sickening and I get to see all these things on a regular basis, so someone that says its ok now, because they dont do it any more means nothing to me. I feel for his family, but, did he feel anything for the animals family.
Above is the email I received below is another letter from another caring person, anyone that has anything they would like to say feel free to write to me I will add it.
Dear Mr Kelly
I write re the trade of Tasmanian wildlife and your profit from the suffering of hundreds of thousands of them through your company Lenah Meats.
Your website says:- Lenah is a company with a deep ethical position.
My understanding of ethics is:-
Ethics is concerned with distinguishing between good and evil in the world, between right and wrong human actions, and between virtuous and nonvirtuous characteristics of people.
What is the virtue of profiting from the death of native species, who just want to live like you and your family? If you truly care about other species and their suffering, you would be promoting the education of farmers and the general public to live in harmony with wildlife, (stop shooting them, remove barbed wire fences, give them wildlife corridors, drive more slowly especially at dusk and dawn, etc.)
Native animals are considered pests by the Tasmanian rural community and their control a wasteful cost. Lenah is attempting to turn this situation around so that with time and market development it is hoped the rural community will come to see the animals adapted to the Australian landscape as ‘friends’ rather than foe.
By profiting from the death and suffering of our native species, nothing is changed in the minds of the farmers who still think that native animals are pests (all untrue, humans are the biggest pest on this planet because we are destroying it). How can it be considered a friendly thing to do to kill and eat another creature? By the time you have acculturated everyone to the taste of wallaby, possum etc, never again will they think of them as ‘friends’ only ‘meat’. We are not stupid Mr Kelly.
…a vision of Australian farmers producing indigenous animals, rather than relying solely on ‘exotic’ sheep and cattle
Since when do humans ‘produce’ indigenous animals? I know you like to think you ‘invented’ the wallaby but the simple fact is Mr Kelly, you are NOT God! So you do not produce or invent animals, you just kill them and make a lot of money. Nothing virtuous or ethical about that.
Prior to Lenah John was an Agricultural Advisor with the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries and the States Specialist Deer Farming Adviser.
That figures. All your friends and connections in the DPI would get your all the permits you needed. Very handy.
In response to the environmental damage caused by European style grazing agriculture he observed first hand from the Northern Territory to Tasmania, he decided there must be a better way.
You are right that European agriculture has been tremendously destructive to our landscape, environment and biodiversity and, yes, there is a better way. It’s called VEGANISM. If you want to promote the most environmentally friendly food, open up a chain store of soy sausages.
Lenah was established to create markets for wallaby and possum meat from the belief it makes sense to produce food from the animals perfectly adapted to the environment.
What doesn’t make sense about eating native species is that eventually they will become extinct. There is a limited and dwindling supply of them (due to ongoing habitat loss, pollution, roadkill etc) and at the same time an increasing demand for them (as people continue to reproduce). Meat of any kind (especially wild meat) is not sustainable. Why do you think that the commercial killing of ringtail possums last century drove their numbers so far down that they never recovered?
From a climate change perspective, the development of these markets is extremely important. Wallabies are low carbon emitters. They do not produce methane, a very harmful greenhouse gas, whereas ruminates do. Thus wallaby meat can be eaten with a carbon free conscience.
What a crock! Using the climate change scam to sell more meat and make more money? That is pretty low. Are you exhaling with a carbon-free conscience Mr Kelly? And what about your family and all your pets? All living creatures exhale co2 constantly. Carbon is NOT a pollutant. Water vapour makes up 97% of Greenhouse gases and the remaining 3% is made up of Co2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide. Of these only 3% comes from human activities, the rest from termites, volcanoes, the ocean etc. No big deal.
Lenah has developed systems to ensure that only product from animals younger than three years old is used for restaurant grade cuts
Making money from the flesh of baby animals – again hardly ethical Mr Kelly.
It’s only the last 100 years or so that there’s been a bit of a hiccup in its marketing program and he reckons Lenah is well on the way to turning that around.
We are in the midst of the 6th mass extinction of species so in time you will eventually close down due to there being no more animals left to process.
Awards…
On behalf of wildlife lovers all over Australia and the world, I would like to present you with our own award – the award for:-
TASMANIA’S LEAST COMPASSIONATE HUMAN BEING
for your tireless work in
HELPING TO ENSURE THAT TASMANIA’S NATIVE POSSUMS AND WALLABIES BECOME EXTINCT IN TIME
by
promoting the consumption of their bodies by human beings.
Nobody in the entire state of Tasmania deserves this award more than you. The international community looks on your work with revulsion and disgust, knowing of your dirty deeds from the online footage taken in 1999. While you are no longer allowed to continue with the sadistic, heartless way those possums were killed in your abattoirs, they still suffer in the field.
Do you sleep well at night thinking of the ones that the bullet didn’t quite get the brain for an instant death? The ones with their faces blown off who got away to die of gangrene elsewhere in agony? What about the possum families who were separated thanks to one of your loyal shooters?
Think animals have no feelings? Check up Mr Kelly, there is plenty of evidence that animals do have feelings like us. They feel love for their families, grieve when they lose them, fear when they are about to be killed, anger when their territory is threatened, joy at the beauty of nature and juicy fruits they find, the feeling of the warm sun on their bodies in winter. If you don’t believe me, ask any wildlife carer who has raised an orphaned joey when their mother has been killed.
Until you stop this gruesome trade in suffering and death, wildlife lovers will continue to air your video footage and malign your company all over the world.
Do yourself and your family a favour – develop compassion for our native wildlife and help them. That would help undo all your bad karma. You reap what you sow.
For the animals,
Menkit Prince
Well that has to be it today I will try and not let it go so long next time. Take care all of you
We have had quite a few baby joeys come into care this month our new carer has taken two of the most beautiful little Eastern Grey males and they are thriving