catriona gunn

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catriona gunn

catriona gunn

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Australia เข้าร่วม Haziran 2010
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
British livestock welfare vs the rest of the world: Growth hormones in beef: UK - Illegal USA - Legal and routine Brazil - Banned on paper, compliance varies Routine antibiotic use for growth promotion: UK - Illegal since 1999 USA - Legal until 2017, still loosely regulated Majority of global producers - Ongoing Slaughterhouse CCTV: UK - Mandatory USA - No federal requirement EU - Not mandatory Sow stalls (gestation crates for pigs): UK - Banned since 1999 USA - Legal in most states China - Standard practice Live export for slaughter: UK - Banned 2024 EU - Still permitted to non-EU countries Britain is not perfect. But the gap between British welfare standards and global welfare standards is not a small gap. When you buy British, you are buying inside a legal framework that most of the world has not yet built. That's worth something.
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UN Watch
UN Watch@UNWatch·
🔥 BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR Rare moment of truth at the UN from brave Kuwaiti dissident @JJJuraid, invited by UN Watch: Mr. Chair, I heard the term “colonizers.” But who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land. Who Arabized Egyptians, Phoenicians, Persians and Amazighs? It was us, the Arabs. So why does the council enshrine a lie by keeping a permanent agenda item on Palestine, while ignoring the indigenous heart of Israel returning home? Let us be clear about who is actually defending our sovereignty. Today, Israel is a fighter for peaceful nations, freeing Gaza from Hamas and saving Iranians from the Islamic Republic. What Israel is doing to the IRGC — stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons — is a gift to humanity. There are 57 Islamic countries and only one Jewish state, Israel. Despite the ongoing hateful desire to eliminate it, Israel has not only survived, it has thrived. I don't believe in miracles, but this is one. So I ask the UN: when will you end the ritual of condemning Israel? Is it not time, instead, to learn from Israel? How to defeat terror, defend free societies, and pursue peace. Thank you.
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Sall Grover
Sall Grover@salltweets·
@libsoftiktok It’s been a wild few weeks down under.
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Philosophy Quotes
Philosophy Quotes@philosophors·
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury
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3AW Melbourne
3AW Melbourne@3AW693·
Victoria will observe the Anzac Day public holiday just on the Saturday. But there's one group who will be having both Monday and Tuesday off, the CFMEU. 👀 MORE 👉 nine.social/16AK
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Activist: "A plant-based food system would use seventy-five percent less land." Farmer: "Land suitable for arable crops, yes." Activist: "All land." Farmer: "Three-quarters of the world's agricultural land is too steep, too wet, too cold, or too arid for crops." Activist: "Technology..." Farmer: "Cannot move a mountain. Cannot lower annual rainfall. Cannot extend the frost-free season." Activist: "The study is peer-reviewed." Farmer: "The study modelled land as if it were interchangeable. It isn't." Activist: "You're disputing the findings." Farmer: "I'm standing on a Cumbrian fell in October. The fell is disputing the findings." Activist: "That's anecdotal." Farmer: "So is every peer-reviewed study that's never left a spreadsheet."
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Katherine Deves Morgan 🇦🇺🚺
When they say it out loud…believe them 9 year old girls trapped into marriage Iraq reduced the age of marriage to 9 650 million females alive today married off under 18 117 reports in NSW of underage forced marriage We MUST STOP being “tolerant”
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Nabauti
Nabauti@Nabauti88·
When you hear “execution,” you might assume a serious crime was committed even if you’re against the death penalty. But no, Mohammadreza Abdollahpour, 28, a healthcare worker, was arrested on January 8 while helping an injured person in the street. And for that, he has been sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic. Where in the world is saving a life punishable by execution? Speak up. Be his voice.
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Sky News Australia
Sky News Australia@SkyNewsAust·
A $2b taxpayer investment into the Albanese government’s green energy “illusion” has been branded a “disaster story” as Labor refuses to consider domestic oil exploration while the fuel crisis rages on. skynews.com.au/business/energ…
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
If you were designing a country from scratch specifically to produce ruminants, you would design Britain. You would start with the rain. Specifically, you would arrange for it to fall constantly, reliably, and with a commitment that suggests the sky has a personal stake in the outcome. Not the dramatic rainfall of somewhere interesting, not monsoons or thunderstorms, just a grey, purposeful, relentless dampness that keeps the grass alive in February when nothing else wants to be. Then you'd do the soil. You'd make most of it thin, acidic, rock-full, and nitrogen-poor: genuinely terrible for crops, genuinely perfect for grass, which evolved to grow in exactly this kind of neglected substrate. You'd arrange for this poor soil to sit underneath the rain for ten months of the year and produce a sward so dense and permanent that it becomes, effectively, a biological solar panel. Converting rainfall and thin soil into nutrition via a process so efficient it looks like magic when you trace it. Then you'd add hills. Not useful hills. Not mining hills or strategic hills. Just relentlessly inconvenient hills: too steep for tractors, too wet for wheat, too windy for anything requiring human patience. Perfect, in other words, for an animal that turns its back to the weather and grazes. Then you'd add the cow. The cow would be built for the rain. Deep-bodied, thick-skinned, four stomachs, rumen full of organisms that eat the grass that uses the rain that falls on the soil that goes nowhere useful. Britain is not a country that happens to have cows. Britain is a country that the cows ordered. The rest of us are tenants.
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Grass covers approximately 40% of the Earth's land surface. Humans cannot digest grass. Ruminants can. This is not a coincidence. This is the entire point. There is a vast, distributed, solar-powered system for turning inedible plant matter into dense protein and fat, and it runs on four stomachs and several billion years of microbial evolution. We did not create this system. We inherited it. The argument that we should replace it with a supply chain involving synthetic fertiliser, container shipping, and texturised soy protein is an argument that we have improved on the design. We haven't.
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