Australian Camels Essay

Good Afternoon Australia’s most iconic marsupial, the Kangaroo, holds a place on our coat arms, currency, severe sports teams and is our main attraction for tourists, who believe we ride Kangaroos to school. However, the overpopulation of the animal has led to a long and exasperating debate of whether Kangaroo’s should be culled or ‘harvested’. Culling is commonly referred to the as reducing a population by selective slaughter. It sounds quiet inhumane when you put it that way, however Kangaroo overpopulation has become a huge issue in recent years.

Every year, an average American will consume approximately one hundred-twenty six pounds of meat. This meat can be traced back to factory farms where the animals are kept to be tortured to turn into a product for the appetite of humans. The terrible treatment these animals are forced to endure is the outcome of the greed and want for a faster production of their product. The industry of factory farming works to maximize the output of the meat while maintaining low costs,but will sadly always comes at the animals’ expense.

The last forty-five years has seen a significant increase in world animal protein production. Since 1967 global production of poultry meat has increased by around 700%, eggs by 350%, pig meat by 290%, sheep and goat meat by 200%, beef and buffalo meat by 180% and milk by 180%. Livestock are increasingly important to the food security of millions of people. (Leyonhjelm 3)

Most of the animals under this condition will develop illnesses, abnormalities, go insane, or die before they make it to the slaughterhouse (Alfie, 2010). In the U.S., over 10 billion animals are raised and killed each year for food about 9 billion chickens, 250 million turkeys, 100 million pigs, 35 million cows. The vast majority of these are not raised on small family farms but, rather, in the major agricultural facilities called?factory farms, also known as Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). The idea of factory farming originated in the 1920s with the discovery of vitamins A and D. When mixed with feed; farm animals were capable of growing without sunlight or exercise, which enabled them to be raised more efficiently in barns throughout the year (Fieser, 2015). Factory farming is a form of capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system that is privately controlled by owners for profit and self-interest (Fieser, 2015). Many philosophers have proposed the principle of equal consideration of interests, in some form or other, as a primary moral value; but, we shall see in more element shortly, not many of them have documented that this principle applies to members of other species as well as to our own. (Singer, 1989). In today society the consumer is much more interested in knowing how the chickens are raised, what they?ve been eating

The meat industry today is not what it was nearly a century ago. While improvements are thought to have been made, an ever changing society has brought upon new problems that have been piled on to the previously existing ones. While these problems are not like those found in The Jungle, they do parallel how by exposing what is going on in the meat industry; new regulations would be the answer to the noted problems. The increased demand for meat has made it a rushed mutated production instead of a means to raise livestock for consumers. Taking into consideration the demand for cheap meat that will be used for in quick and high demanded products such as frozen and fast food, this demand of meat has greatly skyrocketed. Animals whose sole

Among the many different marsupials in the world, there is one that stands out and is recognized, not only for its looks, but also for the hardships that it deals with in being a koala. The koala originated in Australia, and was discovered by trappers around the time of 1798. Many rare and exotic animals have been found in Australia, because of its remoteness and isolation from most of the civilized world. Australia has been described as a huge ark, a giant lifeboat, cut off from contact with the rest of the world and carrying with it a group of unique creatures (Serventy 1975). The creatures that inhabit Australia are made up of many different classifications of animal groups that have found themselves all living

It is no secret that meat plays an enormous role in the diet and culture of many countries. Each year, approximately 56 billion land animals are raised and killed worldwide for human consumption (Edwards). By 2050, this figure is predicted to double, making animal production growth rate higher than any other agricultural sub sector in the developed world. Over the last decade, small and medium livestock farms have been replaced by large industrialized factory farms, raising large numbers of livestock indoors in conditions intended to maximize production at minimal cost (Edwards). These sentient beings suffer from intense confinement and as research reveals, we are being forced to either change our ways or face devastating consequences as discussed in this paper. Meat, egg, and milk production are not only focused on the slaughtering of farm animals, but the animal agriculture sector also includes feed grain production and energy expenditures to transport feed, live animals, and animal products, which requires large amounts of

By for the largest part of Australia is arid or semi-arid. A total of 18% of Australia mainland consists of named deserts, while additional areas are considered to have a Desert climate based on low rainfall and hight temperature.

Deserts cover 1,371,000 square kilometres (18%) of Australia’s mainland. Deserts & their arid climatic conditions are generally found in the central west & interior lowlands of the continent. There are ten deserts in Australia: the Great Victoria Desert, the Great Sandy Desert, Tanami Desert, Simpson Desert, Gibson Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Strzelecki Desert, Sturt Stony Desert, Tirari Desert & Pedirka Desert. Only 3% of the country’s population live in the desert.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of many lifestyle diseases. However, cigarette companies, such as Camel, still advertise them in hopes of gaining customers. Some of those customers are teenagers who end up getting addicted to smoking due to advertisements that seem appealing. Camel’s advertisement for the Camel Crush Bold is one of those appealing advertisements.

Child camel jockeys are pure cruelty, the area where these harsh events are held is in the middle east. Is it fair to have children as young as 4 in slavery.

have no place to live. Now, sadly, in Sydney, koalas must cross the street to

(Armstrong et al, 2005). As discussed above the application of mulesing raises significant welfare and ethical issues as seen by the public whereas scientific evaluation conflict this perception. These conflicts are reduced through the application of pain relieving medication such as; ‘Trisulphen’. Also the use of mulesing has provided a valuable contribution to the improvement of the Australian economy, as a significant proportion of the international trade system is dependant on the wool and sheep production. As justified the implementation of alternative methodologies such as genetics and chemical intervention have proven to be biologically and economically non-viable. Alternately the application of mulesing has proven to be beneficial economically for the production system, biologically for the sheep and the long term influence of the secondary impact; thus as justified above mulesing is currently the most viable option for sheep and wool

Australia is both the smallest and oldest continent in the world, and it is the only country that is also a continent. [1] It is an island located between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific, just south of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. At 2,941,299 square miles, Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world and only about 150,000 square miles (about the size of Montana) smaller than the continental United States. Its interior land is a flat and sparsely populated desert, but as you move outward the climate changes to grassland, subtropical, tropical, and even temperate in the southeastern region. [1] While more than 70% of Australia is arid, the rest includes a variety of rich environments including flood plains,

This report is based on the farm management 103 farm visit to Ashley Dene Animal Research Farm. All the material present below is taken from Beef and Lamb NZ Genetics, Central Progeny Test Results and by word of mouth from the Ashley Dene supervisor Chris Logan.