If you are thinking of doing it let me know and I’ll be sure to post a few tips for young players;)

The contrast of a number of articles in previous weeks has been a strange mix of hilarity and perversity.
The article about the fox lotto was followed up days later in the Herald Sun about Kangaroos and Wallabies being at danger from foxes at the Ballarat Wildlife Park.
Apparently the fox lotto Adam told us about is not the only war the dastardly foxes are facing at the moment because of Greg Parker , the owner as “Mr Parker has declared war on the foxes to protect the new joeys”.
So .. we have established that not only are foxes the biggest danger to calves and other “liveSTOCK” (the industry word,not mine) but also the biggest danger to Kangaroos and their offspring.
So with that in mind, read this http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25373251-1242,00.html
OR just my summary – Another area of New South Wales (an Australian State) has been opened up for Kangaroo hunting.
This area represents only a portion of the huge hunting effort happening every year in Australia but “TENS of thousands of joeys will be decapitated, shot or clubbed to death under government orders with the opening up of a vast area of NSW to commercial kangaroo shooting.”

Consider what we have opened up, and what we have legislated into validity “rejected alternative ways to humanely kill joeys whose mothers have been killed by commercial shooters.”
Also consider how cruel the foxes are being painted as being and compare their methods to ours and their motive to ours - “Decapitation or bludgeoning is demanded when a shooter finds a hairless baby still in its mother’s pouch, while older joeys must be bashed or shot.”
Foxes are moral subjects , they are aware of their own existence ,their own pain and comfort,their own survival needs but are not as objectively aware and empathetic as humans *should* be.
Humans purport to be moral AGENTS not just beings worthy of moral consideration (our own rights,comfort,needs) but beings capable of recognising the moral worth of other beings and treating them accordingly.
Foxes are heartless predators preying on livestock and Kangaroos ? What a joke !

Agreed. Personally I have found that my diet was far less varied and less healthy when I was an omnivore than now that I am vegan. I also have a more varied diet than the diet of my omnivore friends and family.

More to the point, I am a lot more aware of what I am eating: I can name just about all the ingredients in all my foods and am no stranger to the ingredients labels (including the dreaded additive numbers). If being informed constitutes fussiness in some people’s books, then so be it. I for one think that making a concerted effort to consider all the information available before making a decision as to what to eat is not a sign of fussiness. Rather, it’s a sign of an ethical and morally conscious individual.

Yes – to any broad spectrum omnivore who considers me fussy as a vegan, consider this …

1 Milk – You only drink milk procured from a genetically warped bovine with a diseased over inflated
udder producing milk while its child is sent to slaughter, wasting thousands of litres of water in the process,on the other hand I will happily drink Soy milk, Oat milk, Cashew Milk,Almond Milk, Quinoa Milk,Hemp Milk and a legion of other healthy,cruelty free, tasty plant based milks.

2 Protein – you derive your protein primarily from tissue taken from animals not too disimilar to yourself and at considerable risk to yourself (heart disease from the cholesterol and cancer from the H.C.A. type carcinogens produced when meat is cooked,not to mention salmonella) , On the other hand I get more than adequate protein (the average western diet is in major protein overdose and has it excreted through the kidneys) from plant milks,beans,seeds,nuts and grains in the form of Seitan,Tofu,Tempeh,Nutmeats and a vast number of mock meats that are almost indistinguishable from the cruel equivalents.

3 Eggs /binding , You make all manner of otherwise lovely dishes disgusting by insisting they are held together with what amounts to an avian period or afterbirth – instead of this I will enjoy cakes,muffins,desserts,pancakes and breakfast savouries with binding provided specific and complementary to the cooking, be it a simple egg replacer powder,mashed banana,applesauce,silken tofu,ground flaxseed, puréed prunes – the list goes on, and if you havent had a decent tofu scramble before, you don’t know what you’re missing !

I could go on – but I’m sure you see a pattern emerging, Insisting on cholesterol and carcinagen laden cruelty infused products makes you a fussy omnivore and often a xenophobic one at that, try some vegan food and you will be rewarded with a happy heart in more ways than one.