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Dairy crisis: Fringe groups milk farmers’ protest for their own ends
Angry dairy farmers had been "run over by corporate greed" and treated like "medieval serfs", about 400 farmers were told during a rally in Melbourne's CBD.
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Animal rights activists ‘sit in’ at Dairy Australia headquarters
AN ANIMAL rights group is conducting a “sit in” protest at the Dairy Australia headquarters in Melbourne. About 20 activists this morning gained access to the Dairy Australia headquarters at Southbank demanding an end to the dairy trade.
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Horrific video shows pigs being ‘forced into small cages with Tasers’ before they are ‘lowered into gas chambers’ and killed
Confronting footage of pigs apparently being forced into 'gas chambers' as they scream and try to escape before they are gutted and drained of blood has been captured by a group of animal activists.
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Animal rights activists chain themselves to pig slaughterhouse ‘gas chamber’ in Laverton
Animal rights activists chained themselves to a Victorian pig slaughterhouse 'gas chamber' on Monday morning to protest against carbon dioxide stunning in the pork industry.
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Diamond Valley Pork Slaughterhouse protest: ‘They’re burning from the inside out’
They are pictured thrashing about, desperately trying to escape and their death is slow and excruciating.
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Police remove animal activists protesting against pork abattoir’s ‘gas chamber’
‘From their first lungful of gas, these pigs are burning from the inside out,’ Animal Liberation Victoria says of carbon dioxide stunning technique
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Animal Liberation Victoria claims pigs suffer horrific deaths when killed using carbon dioxide
A TWO-YEAR undercover investigation by animal activists reveals shocking footage on the widespread practice of killing pigs by carbon dioxide.
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Another tragic death at Melbourne Zoo
Julia, a 33 year old gorilla tragically died following a savage beating by Otana, a male silverback gorilla last Friday. The 33 year old mother had been a captive at Melbourne Zoo for the past 20 years.
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‘Ag-Gag’ Movement Spreads to Australia as Public Figures Call Animal Activists ‘Terrorists’
Ag-gag laws are designed to keep the facts about animal abuses on factory farms secret from the general public. In addition to being a clear violation of the human right to freedom of speech, such laws endanger human health by failing to address unsanitary practices on factory farms that give rise to pandemics such as E-coli, MRSA, and salmonella.
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Protest tactics drive chicken industry out of Victoria
Victoria's once flourishing chicken meat industry is facing collapse.