“You promote Veganism in Invercargill/Southland? Don’t you know we’re all dairy farmers?”
Huh….you know….we’d never noticed that before! ;-)
Its certainly true New Zealand has long been known for our “agricultural export”, our “Freezing Works” export slaughterhouses have long been in operation:
“The New Zealand meat industry developed to service the British market. The first shipment, of 842 cases of canned meat, was in 1870, and in 1882 the first consignment of frozen carcasses was successfully shipped.”
“The Dunedin carried 4,909 sheep and lamb carcasses in the first shipment of frozen meat from New Zealand to Britain.”
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/meat-and-wool/3
Exporting frozen corpses by sea back to Mother Britain! Who wouldn’t want to be in such a noble career? Well, the sheep certainly wouldnt, who would want to be killed and sent to the other side of the world, in a frosty morgue?
Two “industry books” about Southland slaughterhouses, click to view inside, CONTAINS GRAPHIC PHOTOS, taken for an industry publication
In 1978, local farmers became so very frustrated that slaughterhouses were at capacity, that they had to put up with “old sheep” who were “meant to be killed months ago”, they drove them into the streets of Invercargill and set them loose to cause panic in protest.
They were later killed as the cameras rolled, their throats cut, their blood overflowing the trenches dug in dirt.
Click the image below of The Southland Times, Saturday June 16, 1978 to see more about this awful farmers protest
Perhaps present day Southland is best known for killing sheep, forcibly impregnating female cattle to take their breast milk (before killing them once they get “too old” and start producing less milk per pregnancy), but what of other animals we’ve killed? Such as… Whales, and Seals.
Invercargill (and Southland) was home to many “Whalers” and “Sealers”, people who killed the animals we presently love, tourists come from around the world to see New Zealands wild animals.
“A 20-year-old Southland man has become the first person in New Zealand to be sentenced to jail for viciously attacking a leopard seal.”
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“The three men saw the seal as they were driving past Te Wae Wae Bay, 9km southwest of Tuatapere, and after stopping, began filming themselves throwing rocks at it before dragging it down a beach.”
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“McKenzie’s friends Michael William Matthews, 23, and Phillip Ray Horrell, 24, were fined $7000 and $5000 respectively on the same charge when sentenced last month.
The maximum penalty for the charge under the Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978 is six months in jail or a $250,000 fine.”
