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Starfish Bobby Calf Project
Animal rights group, anti diary campaigners, bobby calf rescue.
Lynley Tulloch (PhD) is an independent writer whose expertise scans topics as diverse as the environment, education, social justice and animal rights. Lynley lectured at the University of Waikato for eleven years on environmental education. She is the founder of Starfish Bobby Calf Project, a vegan animal rights group.
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Confusion And Trauma: The Trivialisation Of Human And Children's Rights By The Trumpian Regime
Monday, 16 March 2026, 7:16 pm | Lynley Tulloch
What we need is peace education and global disarmament. Children in conflict zones need protection. The World Organisation for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) calls for peace, disarmament and dialogue. More >>
Banishing Monsters From ECE: Challenging The ECE Reform Amendment Bill
Friday, 27 February 2026, 7:47 pm | Lynley Tulloch
The implications of this Bill are frightening. It offers the illusion that encouraging investment by private providers in poorly regulated systems will lead to increased efficiency and better outcomes for children and families. It won't. More >>
Pulling The Mat Out From Under The Early Childhood Education (ECE) Sector
Monday, 28 April 2025, 10:33 am | Lynley Tulloch
The legacy of colonial domination and erasure of te reo Māori and culture is being stealthily reenacted in this attempt to remove the acknowledgement of “the unique place of Māori as tangata whenua” from Te Whāriki. More >>
We All Need To Get In A Flap About The Gassing Of 80,000 Chickens In New Zealand
Monday, 9 December 2024, 4:07 pm | Lynley Tulloch
The killing of 80,000 live and sentient chickens is an ethical issue. Chickens are intelligent, feeling, problem-solving, walking, flapping marvels. It’s time that the implications for the chickens was given precedence over sunny side up eggs and ... More >>
Heroes Not Felons: The Climate Change Activists Leading The Way By Scaling The Fonterra Factory Walls
Friday, 18 October 2024, 3:51 pm | Lynley Tulloch
If we want a habitable world for not only humans, but all species of animals and plants, then we need to take climate change seriously. Techno-fixes and offsetting carbon schemes are at best fanciful and at worst distracting from what is a dire ... More >>
School Possum Hunts Have Negative Consequences For The Healthy Development Of Empathy In Children
Monday, 10 June 2024, 2:15 pm | Lynley Tulloch
I agree it is vital that children learn about the significance of caring for our environment and develop knowledge and understanding of how to do so. I also think children should be empowered to undertake pro-environmental action. More >>
A 'Season of Death And Suffering': Duck Shooting Should Be Banned In Aotearoa New Zealand
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 1:07 pm | Lynley Tulloch
In the Auckland /Waikato region the duck shooting season will run between 4th May – 3 June 2024. You are allowed eight bags of Mallard and Grey Duck and ten bags of Paradise Sheldrake duck in a single day. More >>
Rat-ling The Cage: The Ethical Dilemmas Of Our Food Systems
Friday, 5 April 2024, 10:53 am | Lynley Tulloch
I believe we should consider the suffering of all animals, including rats. Rats have feelings too. A book entitled ‘Mama’s Last Hug’ by Frans de Waal makes this case. Rats faces express joy when they are tickled. More >>
Capitalism: The Elephant In The Room At The Leader’s Debate
Friday, 13 October 2023, 7:24 pm | Lynley Tulloch
Watching the leader’s debate last night was both revealing and disturbing at the same time. I have no idea who hit who with a bed leg, but that doesn’t surprise me. We all know a lot of funny business goes on in politics. What really surprised ... More >>
Seymour's Proposed Changes To ECE 'B4 School Checks' Are Wrongheaded And Myopic
Thursday, 12 October 2023, 1:05 pm | Lynley Tulloch
The proposed change in ‘B4 School Checks’ by ACT party leader David Seymour are concerning on several levels. Seymour recently announced the proposal which includes extending the ‘B4 School Checks’ focus on health to testing for certain skills. ... More >>
Bobby Calves Are Not The Problem – The Dairy Industry Is!
Friday, 4 August 2023, 10:38 am | Lynley Tulloch
It’s that time of year again when the majority of bobby calves born on farms in Aotearoa New Zealand will be transported to slaughterhouses and killed. Since 2014 I have run a bobby calf rescue organisation called Starfish Bobby Calf Project that More >>
Liar, Liar Your Barn Is On Fire: The 50,000 Hens Who Burnt To Death
Friday, 10 February 2023, 3:01 pm | Lynley Tulloch
The fire that claimed the lives of around 50,000 hens at an intensive egg-laying farm in Orini is devastating. Thankfully there were no injuries to the humans at the site. The same cannot be said of the thousands of hens who suffered a painful ... More >>
It's Definitely Not Awesome For Bobby Calves: A Response To Fonterra
Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 10:19 am | Lynley Tulloch
The new regulation by dairy giant Fonterra that bobby calves are no longer allowed
to be killed on farm from June 2023 is being hailed as a breakthrough of sorts. 
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Back Up The Plane! On The Export Of Live Goats To China
Monday, 16 January 2023, 12:40 pm | Lynley Tulloch
Plans to send two consignments of dairy goats to China by air next month are concerning. A recent article in the Farmers Weekly states that 2500 New Zealand dairy goats will soon be off on a one way direct flight to China costing $400 per head. They are being ... More >>
Freya The Walrus And Our Hearts Of Stone
Monday, 22 August 2022, 8:56 am | Lynley Tulloch
This summer in Norway Freya the itinerant and sole Atlantic Walrus became a celebrity. She swam from the Arctic to Norway where she quickly became a fascination for people– all 1,300 pounds of her. Travelling Norway’s jagged coastline Freya (a young female) ... More >>
I See Dead Calves: The Horrifying Reality Of Bobby Calf Season In Aotearoa.
Thursday, 4 August 2022, 1:41 pm | Lynley Tulloch
Well ‘tis the season again – and I am not talking about Christmas. Bobby calf season is that time of year in New Zealand where hundreds of thousands of tiny 4–10-day old calves are sent to the slaughterhouse. With a small team of animal advocates ... More >>
Cultural Psychosis: The Cruel Deaths Of The Two Cows Who Escaped Whanganui Slaughterhouse
Friday, 15 July 2022, 11:39 am | Lynley Tulloch
With a sense of sadness I read a news piece on two cows who escaped Waimarie Meats slaughterhouse in Whanganui on July 11, 2022. One ended up being shot and killed by police. The other was contained and returned to the slaughterhouse. It’s anyone’s More >>
On Having Your Colonial Pie And Eating It Too
Tuesday, 7 June 2022, 9:54 am | Lynley Tulloch
A recent reader report for Stuff entitled ‘It’s not easy being Pākehā. Stop laughing, It isn’t’ . was a challenging read – for all the wrong reasons. The Pākehā author discusses his reflections on his Pākehā identity, with the rather ... More >>
The Meat In My Mouth: Why I Became Vegan
Friday, 13 May 2022, 1:04 pm | Lynley Tulloch
I often tell people that Harry is my pet because that is the only way people can understand why an animal (usually slaughtered for meat) is living with me and my partner Andrew. I have coffee with Harry and he allows me to lean on him and enjoy ... More >>
Oh The Irony Of The Wellington Protest: Peace And Love And Executions
Tuesday, 22 February 2022, 10:06 am | Lynley Tulloch
There is a dangerous anger on rapid boil at the protest in Wellington. It is a stew of dispossession and unrest alongside various delusional beliefs and violent threats. Two weeks into the protest and the police have had to endure human waste and acid ... More >>
