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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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Trippy Thoughts And Covid
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 9:28 am | Lynley Tulloch
So Covid-19 Delta has a long and hard tail in Auckland. It sort of reminds me of the Ankylosaurus dinosaur of the late Cretaceous Period, wandering around whacking Aucklanders over the head with its huge tail. Such are the joys of having overactive ... More >>
Silence Of The Calves: New Zealand’s Sacrifice At The Dairy Altar
Friday, 11 June 2021, 11:19 am | Lynley Tulloch
(Warning from the Scoop Team: This Op-Ed contains imagery that may be shocking or disturbing to some readers) Cattle are raised in New Zealand for meat and milk production. They are also killed in enormous numbers. According to the Ministry ... More >>
Animal Sentience And How The Law Is Truly An Ass
Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 8:41 am | Lynley Tulloch
The recent announcement that animals are now to be formally recognized as sentient under UK law provides a good basis for campaigners and animal rights activists to push for law change. Alongside the announcement came a number of policy changes that More >>
Broken Homes And Hearts: The Little Blue Penguins Of Waiheke Island
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 12:37 pm | Lynley Tulloch
We need to prioritise our wildlife if we want to protect it. It seems so obvious, and yet economic motives nearly always trump ecological integrity. The work on a planned marina at Kennedy Point on Waiheke Island where the kororā (little blue More >>
Children Killing Bunnies During Easter: The Hypocrisy Of The Great New Zealand Easter Bunny Hunt
Thursday, 8 April 2021, 1:03 pm | Lynley Tulloch
Children killing bunnies during Easter: The hypocrisy of the Great New Zealand Easter Bunny Hunt What does the future hold for our children and grandchildren? Will we continue to teach them to live as hypocrites, dominating and killing other species? ... More >>
Our Response To Covid 19 Lockdown: Toddlers In The Sandpit!
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 4:24 pm | Lynley Tulloch
No doubt everyone 22 years of age and over was once 21. And in that golden and confusing year of being 21 we all stuffed up. We may not have contributed to a lockdown. But then maybe when we were 21 there wasn't a global pandemic. For everyone that is baying ... More >>
Dying An Inhumane Death: How Slaughterhouses In New Zealand Get Away With Murder
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 3:40 pm | Lynley Tulloch
Photo by Sandra Kyle A recent article in Stuff claimed that “meatworks are ‘gory and messy and nasty’, but the slaughtering’s humane”. While the article acknowledges the stressful process of transportation of animals, it makes the assertion that the ... More >>
They're Not A Roast Meal: The UK Slaughterhouse Sheep Escape
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 8:37 am | Lynley Tulloch
Shrek is our famous Merino New Zealand sheep who gained notoriety in 2004 by evading shearers for six years and hiding in caves. He shot to fame and was shorn on national television, met Helen Clark and became the stuff of children’s books. Now some ... More >>
Marching For Justice For Animals: An Important Message At Christmas Time
Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 3:59 pm | Lynley Tulloch
Rudolph with his bright shiny nose was bullied by the other reindeer. They mocked him so much, but Santa (so the story goes) recognized his worth and promoted him to top dog (or deer if you will). Rudolph is totally humanized in the story, taking ... More >>
Burned Out And Broke : Early Childhood Education Needs Recognition And Funding
Monday, 30 November 2020, 2:19 pm | Lynley Tulloch
I was somewhat alarmed at the recent report by ChildForum that many New Zealand publicly funded Early Childhood (ECE) Centres are performing on a somewhat below par basis. I am a fully qualified early childhood education (ECE) teacher but am ... More >>
Lifting The Ban On Live Animal Export: Let's Get Angry!
Friday, 30 October 2020, 12:05 pm | Lynley Tulloch
Author: Lynley Tulloch (with Paul Judge) I am a big Jacinda Ardern fan on the whole. But I am also an angry Jacinda Ardern fan and here is why: the inexcusable recent decision by the Labour government to lift the temporary ban on live exports. Let’s ... More >>
Child Abuse In New Zealand: How Can We Root It Out?
Tuesday, 22 September 2020, 11:09 am | Lynley Tulloch
It is headline news that is becoming chillingly familiar. Sofia Taueki-Jackson died from a non-accidental catastrophic head injury at her home on May 23rd this year . She was only 14 months old and her close family members are refusing to co-operate ... More >>
Lost At Sea - The Cows Who Will Not Be Coming Home
Sunday, 6 September 2020, 2:08 pm | Lynley Tulloch
It strikes me as beyond absurd that dozens of dead New Zealand cows are now floating in the East China Sea. Last Wednesday 5,867 cows perished when the Gulf Livestock 1 capsized and sunk west of Amani Oshima in Japan. If this does not wake us up to ... More >>
Defacing Billboard Of Jacinda Ardern With Dead Possum: What Does It Say About Us?
Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 2:34 pm | Lynley Tulloch
In the lead up to the September elections the defacing of candidate billboards is likely to occur. Nothing, however, prepared me for what happened to this billboard. Still less was I prepared for some people’s comments on social media who thought ... More >>
1.8 Million Reasons You Should Give Up Dairy
Friday, 7 August 2020, 8:54 am | Lynley Tulloch
Bobby calves are one of the more unpalatable truths of the dairy industry. Autumn / Winter calving is the busiest time of the year for ‘bobby calf disposal’ as it is called in the industry. A bobby calf is a 4-10 day old newborn calf who is ... More >>
NZ Animal Welfare Standards Are A Hypocrisy As Video Of Cow Abuse Beatings Thrown Out In Court
Tuesday, 7 July 2020, 4:05 pm | Lynley Tulloch
There was no justice recently for the cows who endured sickening beatings at the hands of Northland sharemilker Michael Luke. New Zealand claims world class animal welfare standards. It benefits economically from the perception of the public that ... More >>
Farrowing Crates: A Cruel Abomination That Needs To Go
Wednesday, 1 July 2020, 1:32 pm | Lynley Tulloch
The farming of animals using industrialized factory methods is a pressing moral issue of the modern era. Pig farming is a good illustration of this. I would argue that when factory methods are used it is one of the biggest abominations of humanity. ... More >>
Compassionate Conservation - We Need A New Framework For Our Relationship With 'Pest Animals'
Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 6:52 am | Lynley Tulloch
If there has been one message that was repeatedly driven home during the various stages of lockdown it was this: be kind. However, it would seem that ‘kindness’ did not cross the species barrier like Covid -19 did. The Covid-19 lockdown should ... More >>
Petition To Ban Duck Shooting Circulating In New Zealand
Wednesday, 27 May 2020, 8:30 am | Lynley Tulloch
A petition to ban duck shooting in NZ has been created by animal advocacy group Starfish. It is circulating and gathering signatures to present to Rt. Hon. Jacinda Adern, Hon. David Parker and Hon. James Shaw. We created this petition for a number ... More >>
I’m offended as well!The case of KFC and fried bird feathers
Thursday, 21 May 2020, 3:12 pm | Lynley Tulloch
An anonymous UK mother from Blackpool who served her son KFC with feathers in it has complained to the KFC branch concerned. She also posted pictures on Facebook with the offending feathers. More >>
