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Cattle export to Lybia

  • 21-02-2013 12:46pm
    #1
    reilig
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    Seems like some of the boards.ie users on the Waterford City forum have an issue with this shipment of cattle to Lybia.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056884066

    https://www.facebook.com/events/487623007939595/

    Can anyone from Waterford give us a run down as to what went down at this event? There even came a bus load of protestors down from Dublin.

    I thought the City of waterford, ravaged by unemployment as it is would be more interested in exporting live animals and creating employment than exporting its young unemployed people to Australia and Canada.

    Personally I hope they have cause to have a vigil like this down there every month!


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  • #2
    professore
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    Anything in this country that creates jobs and wealth for a community is always protested against - generally by unemployed and retired people with nothing better to do.

    Shell to Sea is a good example - a perfectly safe pipeline creating hundreds of jobs in Mayo, corporation tax for the government, and encouraging more explorers to come here. Meanwhile there are LOADS of things in Ireland worth protesting, yet you never see them protesting these things.


  • #3
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Well Belview which was mentioned is in Kilkenny, though Waterford would like to have it...about the vigil, some people have nothing to do.

    I think we should hold a vigil for the gazelles in Africa who get eaten alive by big cats on the Savannahs.


  • #4
    tomo75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭tomo75


    I heard an interview on the radio (Morning Ireland at ~7:45am, can't remember which day but basically a lady was complaining strongly about the export of live cattle. Transpires that she had an issue with anything to do with meat/slaughter whether in Ireland or Libya. I turned off the radio after that........


  • #5
    towzer2010
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    How about organising a vigil for all the candles needlessly burned at vigils????


  • #6
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    Min wrote: »
    Well Belview which was mentioned is in Kilkenny, though Waterford would like to have it...about the vigil, some people have nothing to do.

    I think we should hold a vigil for the gazelles in Africa who get eaten alive by big cats on the Savannahs.

    Those b#####d lions eating those poor gazelles - it's pure animal cruelty


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  • #7
    pakalasa
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    down-with-this-sort-of-thing.jpg


  • #8
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Bus paid for seemly by a prominent dundalk businessman:D:D only joking


  • #9
    fathersymes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭fathersymes


    This is shocking, comparing cattle exports to the holocaust, complete loonies these animal rights extremists.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/cattle-live-export-libya-801035-Feb2013/#comment-957498


  • #10
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    fathersymes wrote: »
    This is shocking, comparing cattle exports to the holocaust, complete loonies these animal rights extremists.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/cattle-live-export-libya-801035-Feb2013/#comment-957498

    There are some right idiots out there no mistaking that

    Wondering how many of them are actually working for a living though


  • #11
    fredweena
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭fredweena


    They give people who do a lot of good work for animals a bad name i.e. people who run rescues and things. If they really wanted to do something they should forget the vigil and spend the time helping out.


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  • #12
    1chippy
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    i remeber being in a pub one time in Galway just prior to some random protest. the main topic of conversation going on amongst these "protesters" were the craic they would have and the endless supply of weed that would be available. i thought it summed up the main reasons and sort of idiots that were involved.


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