I am sure Refugee Rudd will rush to their aid! -

Don't expect the urban parasites of the Labor party to do anything - remember just a week ago they said we have no rights & won't even contemplate talking to us. They don’t even know where Young is!! We have to tell them it’s a new working class, working families suburb in far outer S-W Sydney – then we would get some help.

Historian James Barrett writes that in the early 20th century, American slaughter-houses were 'dominated by the sight, sound, and the smell of death on a monumental scale'. The machinery of death and the sound of dying animals constantly assaulted the ear. The only difference of the slaughter of animals in the early 1900s and today is much faster line speeds and a enormous increase in volume. Described as the 'cruel, fast, profit-driven system of torture and murder in which animals are looked upon as things not as living, feeling beings with no regard to their suffering and death. Abattoirs have no place in a civilised society of the 21st century.

Kathleen, it seems to me that you are not exactly the smartest little pea in the pod. I remind you that herbivores do in fact have sex and breed. The result is overpopulation and a slow and cruel death by starvation, not exactly a pretty sight. Without abattoirs, that is exactly what would happen to living, feeling beings. In your case, they will simply stick you in a home, then wait and watch, until you struggle until your last breath. That is hardly the kinder option, in my opinion. Flawed philosophy seems to be your problem here.

Kathleen, I told you before stop eating those mung beans!

I've worked at an abs for more than 20 years and was laid off then not rehired because i was too old (40)the industry is full of cutthroat owners who don't care about their workers by the way kanzi have you ever been inside one it's cruel they don't leave old people to die after being knocked in the head and having their throats cut obviously you have head up your arse for too long go inside and see how cruel people (owners) can make their workers work least you have an idea kathleen

Paddy is right, animals aren't the only ones who get treated badly in abattoirs, the workers also have it bad.

The welfare and care that we spend on animals in the developed world is greater than the GDP of 42% of the world's population. During the time it has taken the people to place comments against this article more than 100 children will have died in the developing world. To say that animals are not properly cared for in our society, when you look at the plight of 42% of the world population only enforces to me that in our very urbanised insulated Western society we have totally lost our sense of values. I've spent 30 years in farming and in improving agriculture in the Third World. Any argument that we are cruel to our animals in Australia, when I see the misery in poor rural communities in the Third World, only confirms to me that we have lost any sense of reality in the Western so-called "developed" world. I hope your cats enjoy their Whiskers tonight, it will contain more protein than what 35% of the world's children will get today.

To Clancy's Mate, I hope you don't eat meat then because the grain that is fed to fatten animals could be given to the very people you are talking about. Stopping cruelty to animals is a priority for the world, accept it.