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Joanna Joanna 8 April 2009
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[ADMIN EDIT]
Hi all,

Joanna is conducting a survey and would appreciate your input. If you would like to help her out. Please contact her on her community profile: http://www.unleashed.org.au/community/profile.php?22394

Below are the survey questions.

Thanks,
Jesse (Unleashed Admin)
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1.Are you a vegetarian? Please circle
       
   Yes                    
       
   No

2.A vegetarian is generally referred to as someone who does not eat meat, but who does eat dairy products and eggs. A vegan however, does not eat or wear anything that has required using an animal. Therefore vegans, in addition to abstaining from meat, don't eat milk or cheese, don't eat eggs or honey, and don't wear leather, wool or fur. Most vegans also avoid using products that have been tested on animals. Are you a vegan? Please circle
                 
    Yes                    
   
    No

3.What influenced your decision to become a vegetarian or vegan? Please circle
 
 Parents
 
 Celebrity influence
 
 Peer Pressure

 other (please specify ) _______________________________

4.How old where you when decided to become a vegetarian or vegan? Please Circle

    Less than 10
   
    10- 14
   
    14-16

    16-18

5. Do you ever come under ridicule (teased) because you are vegetarian or vegan? Please circle
 
Yes

No  


6.Please list celebrities whom you know are
Vegetarian?
           
7.If you knew your favourite celebrity was a vegetarian or vegan would that influence your choice?
Please Circle                                                                                          

    Yes

    No


8. Are you aware of issues in the community regarding animal rights? Please circle
For example:

-       Factory farming (save babe)

-        Animal testing (vivisection)

-        Broiler hens (free betty)

-        Sheep-Mulesing

-        Circuses

9.Did this influence your decision to become vegetarian or vegan? Why?


10.Would you consider it apart of a particular scene to be Vegetarian or Vegan? Please elaborate




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Joanna Joanna 8 April 2009
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can you please help me to get people to do my survey its in my about me?
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Rodney Rodney 8 May 2009
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No Milk   ....   No Milo!!!!! cry

But in all seriousness   them figures seem very extreme.
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Sabrina Sabrina 11 May 2009
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I don't eat beef and I havent been for year, I don't see why everyone can just give up one meat. I also dont eat pork and I dont miss it at all. I think everyone should try and give up just one meat if not them all.
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Unleashed Unleashed 9 June 2009
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Hi Zafrina, thanks for the pm and welcome! So glad you like the site. It's great to have you here. If you have any q's just drop us a line...
enjoy happy
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Staceeee Staceeee 21 August 2009
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Done, I sent it to all my friends, gosh it's so mean!
I love dolphins, they are sentient beings and shouldn't be treated like that.
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Swanky Swanky 15 March 2010
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well maybe AA shouldnt have celebrated so soon.
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Karen Karen 23 April 2010
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The strongest message we can send to the animal testers is that we won't give them our MONEY to fund further cruel tests. That's why speaking out against testing and putting your cash behind cruelty-free companies is the best way to go.

There are of course people out there who need our help too, so if you can, do give blood too! love
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Nikki1 Nikki1 7 May 2010
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I'd like my husband to see Earthlings so he can understand why I am passionate about what we eat and how this impacts on a animals life. He's a vegetarian by default. He never complains, but a deeper understanding would be nice.
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Karen Karen 10 June 2010
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happy If you want to thank someone, write to Bryan Green, the Tasmanian minister who announced the ban! bryan.green@parliament.tas.gov.au

And then, tell the other state ministers to follow Tasmania's lead!

www.unleashed.org.au/take_action/no-more-sow-stalls

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ukgaz ukgaz 30 January 2011
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poor inocent animals always suffering because of Heartless Human !!!!!!!
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Jesse Jesse 1 February 2011
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Hi Kezzam, thanks for joining the discussion. It is good to know you are keen to be transparent about your practices and welcome visitors to your farm happy

Unfortunately, Dairy Australia and the Australian government neglected to make it widely known that there was a public consultation on the new standards for bobby calves - something they should have done by now.

As someone who works with calves, I'd be interested to know what you think of the proposed standards to permit calves to be off feed for 30hrs before slaughter?
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Linaeriksson Linaeriksson 15 February 2011
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Humans are just f****d up. the fashion industry is so fake! its some thing that is not even real. just idiots can follow this insane industry. Does any one know what Danish company this is? I want to write to them!
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Jesse Jesse 7 April 2011
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Hi Paris, Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

This incident at Taronga Zoo left me sceptical of at least some zoos' claims about conservation: http://www.unleashed.org.au/blog/2009-08/Zoo-Sells-Endangered-Antelope-to-Hunter

I agree we need to protect endangered animals. But I don't think that a life on public display is necessarily in the best interests of the animals. There are many great sanctuaries rehabilitating and protecting animals, who try to offer them as close as possible to a natural environment.
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LadyLuckDoubt LadyLuckDoubt 18 May 2012
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"Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it." - Brigid Brophy
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Ria N Ria N 18 May 2012
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
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kellzees kellzees 18 May 2012
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Hunting is not a sport.  In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. -Paul Rodriguez
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nichola nichola 18 May 2012
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"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."
~Harvey Diamond

love this one!!
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Unjay Unjay 18 May 2012
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore.
- Franz Kafka
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Lu Lu 18 May 2012
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"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions." - Mark Twain
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Girl Anachronism Girl Anachronism 18 May 2012
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"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."
Paul McCartney
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Girl Anachronism Girl Anachronism 18 May 2012
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"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." - Paul McCartney
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Trish2 Trish2 18 May 2012
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"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant
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TanGola TanGola 18 May 2012
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"I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again."
- Stephen Grellet, 1773-1855, Quaker leader
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LustStarrr LustStarrr 18 May 2012
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"Man is the cruelest animal." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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frith frith 18 May 2012
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"Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals." - Theodor W. Adorno
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Casper.s2 Casper.s2 19 May 2012
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sneak upon tip-toe, a ninja into hearts of the Amazonian
Yell! A Kung Fu "ACAI!" call out, prey deep for blood drink


~the escape route blocked by ToFu masters farm the
tasteless, soft
weak hearts shoot to kill - fear running from out carbonize junglebook dreams


the scurry won't have to try keep warm this winter
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roary roary 19 May 2012
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...."We only need to watch the daily news on television to realize that the madness has not abated, that it is continuing into the twenty-first century. Another aspect of the collective dysfunction of the human mind is the unprecedented violence that humans are inflicting on other life-forms and the planet itself - the destruction of oxygen-producing forests and other plant and animal life; ill-treatment of animals in factory farms; and poisoning of rivers, oceans and air. Driven by greed, ignorant of their connectedness to the whole, humans persist in behavior that, if continued unchecked, can only result in their own destruction." Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth, 2005 (p.11)
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Ratgirl Ratgirl 19 May 2012
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"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves."
- Jane Goodall
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Jonzke Jonzke 19 May 2012
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"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

James Herriot
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JodieC JodieC 19 May 2012
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"What's the kindest thing you did today? Maybe it's what you didn't eat."
~ Edgar's Mission
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Aerin Aerin 19 May 2012
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"If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought." - Nikola Tesla
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TofuUnleashed TofuUnleashed 19 May 2012
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"How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time."

- Henry J. Heimlich
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savageveg savageveg 19 May 2012
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i cannot choose. i love both of these too much!

"Animals of the world exist for their own reasons.
They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men."
~ Alice Walker

"you put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit.if it eats the rabbit & plays with the apple, i'll buy you a new car." -Harvey Diamond
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lololiisha lololiisha 20 May 2012
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"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."
-        Paul McCartney

cloud9
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Dabsey Dabsey 22 May 2012
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"If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian"
Linda McCartney
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Cabbage Cabbage 22 May 2012
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"Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer
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KellyG KellyG 30 May 2012
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"Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
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lauracampione lauracampione 30 May 2012
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"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
- Elie Wiesel
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pokie pokie 30 May 2012
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Without inner peace,how can we make real peace?The Dalai Lama...make peace with the animal world...do not eat them!!! paw
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Ashleigh51 Ashleigh51 30 May 2012
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"Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures."

-- The Dalai Lama, 1967 love
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hello123 hello123 30 May 2012
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"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
- Ellen DeGeneres
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JessNair JessNair 31 May 2012
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"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals." - Anonymous
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nikkidynamo nikkidynamo 2 June 2012
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A favourite quote from my favourite author Jonathan Safran Foer:

"Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something"
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sophxx sophxx 8 June 2012
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"We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
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Chloe145 Chloe145 11 June 2012
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"A dog wags its tail with its heart"
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Tamara13 Tamara13 14 June 2012
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"What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?"

- Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
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maisiemay maisiemay 29 June 2012
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Be the change that you want to see in the world. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Ultra-Vegan Ultra-Vegan 13 August 2012
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Yeah...Let's f**k up another planet, shall we?
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sammstein sammstein 18 August 2012
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Get the pigs out...
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Samanthadavey Samanthadavey 28 August 2012
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My dad is an amazing cook. He went vegetarian when I did and always makes the best veggie/vegan food. He's super supportive of anything I choose to do.
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Ashley3 Ashley3 11 September 2012
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Well great that ellen and tobey are vegos but what about promoting that on the tv show,i doubt it as money is more important than staying true to a cause,so many tv personalities really do f--- all to help these animals,dont fool yourself that they are any more special as the truth is they are not
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prairiegal prairiegal 12 September 2012
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@adrian01....As surfa said feral animals are animals that were released by "ignorant, stupid" human animals!!!!!!!!!! Maybe you should direct you attention to the humans who are irresponsible and cause more destruction of the environment and endangerment and death of other species on this planet.  No animal deserves to be treated cruelly!
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Claire Broughton Claire Broughton 12 September 2012
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I admit to being too scared to look at the video.  Too scared because I knew it would make me angry, frustrated and helpless.  All I can do is sign the petition.  The script is enough to make me feel so angry at these people. Makes me ashamed to be part of the human race.
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Please Be Informed Please Be Informed 6 October 2012
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Hi
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Please Be Informed Please Be Informed 15 October 2012
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The above comments are what should bring tears to our eyes! I have no emotive axe to grind %u2026. but despair when people openly admit that their FACTS are derived from "conversations" and "personal research".

Personally, I base my comments on having been on such livestock carriers, watching with a critical eye all management practices. Seen the care and attention paid to individual animals. Compared the treatment the animals received to my 50 years of disparate experiences in animal agriculture .... and come away simply amazed. Very different to any local sheep and cattle treatment I've seen.

As a media teacher, for 30 years I have encouraged students to seek out bias, identify hearsay (as distinct from actual knowledge), political agendas and interpret sensationalised media reports. The above reports are bursting with all of the aforementioned %u2013 and an objective perspective is all that is needed to see it all in its lurid mis-truth!

cry     huh     strong
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Amy Amy 12 June 2013
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Hi Sarah. The ads are now playing across networks 9, 10 and SBS in all major metropolitan areas and extending as far into regional areas as our budget allows. At this stage they'll stay on air for the next few weeks at least but we're hoping to keep raising funds to keep them on air for as long as possible happy
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The Kind Cook The Kind Cook 27 November 2013
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My  4 year old son deserves this. He is navigating a world that sees things so differently to the way he is being raised.

Everyone eats meat but he and I don't.  Other parents love the hatching program but it makes his mummy sad. Other kids go to the zoo but he goes to farm animal sanctuaries. Some kids hurt worms in the play ground. He is taught to not harm even the smallest being.  

He always asks mummy if things contain cow's milk, doesn't complain and just puts them back. Sometimes it's a little harder to find the vegan version and sometimes like with ice creams there is not as many choices that are dairy free but he never complains.

It can be hard feeling different but so far he seems to understand. It's just about loving others, showing compassion and respecting that every species is important.
cow
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Okami ovo vegetarian Okami ovo vegetarian 12 November 2014
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She should be the one in the bin, not the cat who just wanted to be friendly  chick kitty angry furious cry sad scared paw
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Okami ovo vegetarian Okami ovo vegetarian 15 November 2014
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Chickens show empathy as well,
Need proof? I had a silkie bantam hen who was the most bossy aggressive puffball you've ever met but her friend was shy, nice, introverted, and was the lowest of the flock as well,
One cold day in winter, the first cold day of winter, the 16 of may, she got too wet and caught ammonia and I didn't know
You had to blow dry silkies when they get wet,
Before she died my other chickens went in to check on her, say goodbye, and had a little chicken funeral for her.
When I got home she was dead and I cried for her and we buryed her.
Think of her next time you eat your Christmas chicken dinner.

All the best,
Okami isa McKenzie.
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Okami ovo vegetarian Okami ovo vegetarian 19 November 2014
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BAN LIVE EXPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cow furious angry sad
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Karen Karen 12 June 2015
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Hey! If you've passionate about writing and have got something to say, then send us a sample at info@unleashed.org.au . Sometimes we feature guest bloggers. happy

Karen.
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michaelthompson michaelthompson 16 June 2016
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