Is a certain television commercial featuring a certain football-has-been telling you how un-Australian you are for not eating lamb on Australia Day driving you crazy? Me too!
A few things to remember –
1. Sheep aren't even originally from Australia.
2. Masses of native vegetation have been cleared to graze sheep, irreversibly changing the Australian landscape.
3. Countless native Australian animals are extinct or endangered because of habitat loss through land clearing (livestock production being one of the main causes of this land clearing). In fact Australasia leads the entire world in species extinction :(
4. Sheep produce methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide, which is affecting the whole planet (which btw includes Australia).
5. Sheep have wonderful personalities and are just as smart and deserving as the beloved dogs and cats in the homes of countless Australians.
And finally, this:
Would anyone seriously want that adorably cute and bouncy critter to have to die for their dinner?
These undisputed facts only point to one conclusion – Sam's got it backwards: it's eating lamb that is un-Australian!
Take that Kekovich!
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I'll be spending my day working at animal emergency. Saving animals, not eating them.
Good work pughugs & SandyL
I don't like to celebrate Invasion Day but a friend & I decided to throw a vegan BBQ, we thought if everyone will be out eating dead animals & drinking beer, we may as well try & reduce the suffering
Don't eat lamb on Australia day! You know it makes sense!
i love the video soo cute! my sheep do that its sooo funny watching them
also enjoyed that Angus and Julia Stone got No. 1
On another note though. FU*K I HATE SAM KEKOVICH WHAT A DI*K!
I love sheep, lambs, all animals, and I will not be eating anything that once had a face and heart and soul.
All ruminant animals (like cows and sheep, that have four stomachs) produce a lot of methane while they rechew their food (it's all very biochemistry-y as to which of the 4 stomachs it is produced in and how and I've forgotten a lot of it since uni - my animal nutrition lecturer would be livid!) - Anyway this has to come out and basically they burp out methane all day! (They fart it out too, but it's mainly from the burps!)
We should ask our politicians to start educating our children at school how harmful meat eating is!