Don’t eat me for a week
A campaign has launched to raise awareness of the amount of meat Australians eat, and the practices behind factory farming.
The campaign centres around Meat Free Week, an event that urges Australians to go without eating animals for a week, from 18-24 March next year.
The campaign is being led by former NewsLifeMedia executive Melissa Dixon and Pacific Magazines national advertising director Lainie Bracher.
It is being backed by model and TV presenter Laura Csortan, former magazine editor Deborah Hutton and actor Krew Boylan. Chefs Simon Bryant, Belinda Jeffery and Bill Granger are providing meat-free recipes for the campaign.
A campaign website – Meatfreeweek.com - goes live tomorrow.
Australia is the second largest consumer of meat per capita after the Us. The average Australian eats around 120kg of meat a year. This consumption would not be possible without factory farming, which the campaign...
A campaign has launched to raise awareness of the amount of meat Australians eat, and the practices behind factory farming.
The campaign centres around Meat Free Week, an event that urges Australians to go without eating animals for a week, from 18-24 March next year.
The campaign is being led by former NewsLifeMedia executive Melissa Dixon and Pacific Magazines national advertising director Lainie Bracher.
It is being backed by model and TV presenter Laura Csortan, former magazine editor Deborah Hutton and actor Krew Boylan. Chefs Simon Bryant, Belinda Jeffery and Bill Granger are providing meat-free recipes for the campaign.
A campaign website – Meatfreeweek.com - goes live tomorrow.
Australia is the second largest consumer of meat per capita after the Us. The average Australian eats around 120kg of meat a year. This consumption would not be possible without factory farming, which the campaign...
- 11/30/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
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Wimbledon washout
Murray mound? Henman hill? Rusedski ridge? Name it after whichever British tennis super-flop you choose, it won't stop the authorities closing it down in the rain. Much to the disappointment of middle Britain, Wimbledon's big screen had its power cut during Andy's big first game. Calls of an over-zealous attitude to public protection had the Health and Safety Executive screaming foul play: "People have been walking up and down wet, grassy slopes for years without catastrophic consequences," wrote the chair of the Hse in an open letter. "Health and safety excuses are becoming as much a feature of our sporting calendar as the rain," she added. It must have had some impact: the hill's been open ever since. Huzzah!
The stat
121,420...
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The story
Wimbledon washout
Murray mound? Henman hill? Rusedski ridge? Name it after whichever British tennis super-flop you choose, it won't stop the authorities closing it down in the rain. Much to the disappointment of middle Britain, Wimbledon's big screen had its power cut during Andy's big first game. Calls of an over-zealous attitude to public protection had the Health and Safety Executive screaming foul play: "People have been walking up and down wet, grassy slopes for years without catastrophic consequences," wrote the chair of the Hse in an open letter. "Health and safety excuses are becoming as much a feature of our sporting calendar as the rain," she added. It must have had some impact: the hill's been open ever since. Huzzah!
The stat
121,420...
… more state school pupils receive free school meals than...
- 6/24/2011
- by Oliver Laughland
- The Guardian - Film News
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