Are we there yet are we there yet

RandomName2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfUKyw934nw

Anybody else annoyed by those bothair adverts?

Okay it's meant to be all warm and fuzzy (it's for charidee); but in reality it's a gimmicky Christmas advert aimed primarily at kids to promote live exports as a supposed solution to chronic infrastructural and economic distress.

Iang87

i forward the ads

lastlaugh

Those ads don't bother me in the slightest.

danniemcq

me thinks food and milk received from these "presents" plus the money that can be raised for selling offspring or produce would be slighly more important in these areas than a new bit of road or whatever other chronic infrastructural distress they have.

stupidusername

I don't really watch tv. but if i did, i would be infuriated by these ads

Saila

aaawaaaaaaaaaw I thought this was going to about those long car trips as a kid

Shiner11

If I was in their position, I'd rather have a constant food supply than a motorway outside my house.

Conall Cernach

RandomName2 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfUKyw934nw

Anybody else annoyed by those bothair adverts?

Okay it's meant to be all warm and fuzzy (it's for charidee); but in reality it's a gimmicky Christmas advert aimed primarily at kids to promote live exports as a supposed solution to chronic infrastructural and economic distress.

Don't they use the money to buy the animals in or close to the country they are helping out rather than export them from Ireland? They don't actually take a goat from Ireland and put him on a ship to Somalia or wherever.

admiralofthefleet

i like the fella with the cork accent, because all corkonians are donkeys

RandomName2

Shiner11 wrote: »

If I was in their position, I'd rather have a constant food supply than a motorway outside my house.

Yeh sure - but there's little need to import animals to that end.

Development of a stable market economy + adequate civil security (for farming) is the way to have a constant food supply.

But neither of those are cute. :pac:

Sonics2k

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

i like the fella with the cork accent, because all corkonians are donkeys

Well I have been called an Ass quite a few times :pac:

danniemcq

feckin animals travel better than humans on RyanAir

Animal transportation
All animals leaving from Ireland are transported by air to their new homes in the developing world.

While airlifting can be more costly than boat and road haulage it is the preferred method of transportation for Bóthar animals, as it is the quickest and least stressful method.



It takes a wide range of skilled people to organise an airlift of dairy animals from Ireland to Eastern Europe and Africa. Preparations before each airlift start months in advance here in Ireland as well as in the recipient countries.

Every persons invlovement is crucial; the donating farmer, the vet, the department of agriculture offical, the customs officer and the aer rianta handlers; but one you might not be as familiar with is the role of Bóthars own ‘Cow-Boy’s. With each animal airlift, one of Bóthars ‘Cow-Boys’ accompanies the animals as a groom and ensures their safety and comfort during the travel.

Usually 70 heifers travel together as a group. The interior of a large cargo plane is specially adapted, having purpose- built pens and absorbent flooring installed.

The cattle are comfortable during their journey are not in any way perturbed by the flight. On arrival, they are again checked by the local veterinary staff. They will spend some time resting in quarantine and will then be distributed to their new families who have been eagerly awaiting their arrival.

Tómas Crowley, from Cork, has been an international, professional, Live-Animal Haulier since 1987. Tómas started volunteering to assist with Bóthar heifer collections in 1992 and he has since gone on to become one of our most valued ‘Cow-Boys’.

‘During the flight I spend my time going from pen to pen checking that the animals are comfortable and that the temperature in the plane is nice and cool.

Once the plane lands I must then present all of the documentation for the animals to the department of agriculture and the customs department.

We then take the ramp out of the belly of the plane; it comes in 21 separate parts so that must be assembled before we unload the animals. We then unload the animals and then transport them to the quarantine where they spend up to 2 weeks before being distributed to their new families and homes. I usually then look for the next flight home to Ireland.’ – Tómas Crowley.

For further information on Bóthars animal welfare policy and any queries on transportation please phone Bóthar General Sectretary, Peter Ireton 061 41 41 42.

bonzodog2

The radio adverts are quite irritating, but luckily I watch little TV so I am spared those. The Brennan's bread ads annoy me too.

RandomName2

danniemcq wrote: »

feckin animals travel better than humans on RyanAir

How do I get the feeling that that article was written by Bothar

danniemcq

RandomName2 wrote: »

How do I get the feeling that that article was written by Bothar

yup but i have searched online for last few minutes and found no sites complaining about the process, even the knobs at PETA say nothing

Fbjm

I remember watching these ads and laughing at how the lamb was looking forward to getting eaten. 'are we there yet? oh hi! what are yo-'

Donal Og O Baelach

Fbjm wrote: »

I remember watching these ads and laughing at how the lamb was looking forward to getting eaten. 'are we there yet? oh hi! what are yo-'

And how the mother is so happy to "give up her young" - (Creepy phrase isn't it?). Let's try that with an angry hippo.