At the Fork

TRICK BOX CREATIVE

Trick Box Creative was awarded a $12,000 grant to fund ‘At the Fork’ – seven 2 minute webisodes, which present animal welfare issues to audiences in a non-confrontational format. During each short, Australian teenagers challenge their parents with questions about food and ethics around the dinner table. Each episode winds its way to variations on the phrase, ‘Isn’t it funny what we think of as ‘normal’. To view a copy of the list of webisodes, please click on the download icon below.

http://www.physicaltv.com.au/AtTheForkDirectedByRichardJamesAllenWrittenproduced…

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Like a Duck Out of Water: An expose of the Australian duck industry

ANIMAL LIBERATION NSW

Animal Liberation NSW, along with the Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH), were awarded a $13,000 grant to fund ‘Like a Duck Out of Water: an exposé of the Australian duck industry’. This project investigated the Australian intensive duck industry, which currently produces around 8 million ducks per year, subjecting them to cruel treatment and cramped conditions. The report was launched at the Voiceless Awards in December 2013.  It will eventually be made available in Chinese, and will be widely distributed to restaurants, duck meat suppliers and airlines. To view the entire report please click the link to download.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3528922.htm

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Community Legal Centres’ Animal Law and Education Network

NORTHERN RIVERS COMMUNITY LEGAL CENTRE

The Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre was awarded a $15,000 grant towards the establishment of a NSW Community Legal Centres’ Animal Law and Education Network. During the life of the project, the network undertook animal protection law activities such as community education and law reform, through the existing Community Legal Centres across the state, with the aim of establishing a permanent network across NSW.  To view a summary, click on the download link below.

http://www.naclc.org.au/resource_details.php?resource_id=164

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Ban Jumps Racing

COALITION FOR THE PROTECTION OF RACEHORSES

The Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses was awarded the Peoples Choice Award and $15,000 towards mobile billboard advertisements for their ‘Ban Jumps Racing’ campaign. This grant funded the purchase of fortnightly advertising space on mobile billboards towed by two scooters for the first four months of the jumps racing season in South Australia and Victoria, the only two states who continue to allow jumps racing. This advertising drew attention to the animal welfare implications associated with hurdles races and steeplechases, calling on individuals to take direct action, or to get involve with the Coalitions campaign. The ads were supplemented by simultaneous political lobbying efforts by the Coalition. To view a copy of the billboard, please click on the download icon below.

http://www.horseracingkills.com

Cage Free Campus

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY (UMAPS)

The University of Melbourne were awarded a $400 grant to fund their ‘Cage Free Campus’ project. The project had two distinct phases: first it sought to raise awareness on campus of the cruel conditions endured by battery hens and second, it aimed to garner the support of the University Council to implement a Cage Free Campus policy mandating a ban on the use of cage eggs by food suppliers on campus. A dedicated web presence was set up for the project and close to 450 signatures were received for the campaign’s petition. The campaign obtained official support from the University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor, whose office has also contacted the Student Union about sourcing free range eggs from suppliers. Campaigners have provided each campus food supplier an information pack and the opportunity to join the campaign which resulted in the successful conversion of one on-campus food outlet to cage free eggs with another currently in the process of doing so. The project has also seen letters sent to each of the residential colleges to encourage the use of cage free eggs in their catering supplies. To view a copy of the sticker, please click on the download icon below.

http://www.umapsociety.org/facts.html

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MELON MEDIA

Website: http://www.melon.com.au/

Investing with Care

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY

The University of Technology, in conjunction with the Institute for Sustainable Futures, received a $5,000 Voiceless grant to undertake research on shareholder activism. This research is intended to view from an investors perspective, at how a business whose operations, or supply chains, are linked to intensive industrial agriculture can be exposed to serious risk as societal values regarding the health and wellbeing of animals changes.

http://www.uts.edu.au

Feedlots: Marbled Meat Expose

ANIMAL LIBERATION NSW

Animal Liberation NSW were awarded a Voiceless Grant of $20,000 towards their ‘Feedlots: Marbled Meat Expose’ project which aimed to investigate conditions in Australian feedlots. The project was specifically focused on animals bred for ‘marbled meat’ with the lions share of work being put into gathering first hand evidence regarding the levels of disease and suffering experienced by these animals. Animal Liberation’s expose eventually resulted in investigations by both NSW Police and the RSPCA. The information gathered as a result of this grant was used as evidence to convince the Assistant Police Commissioner for Rural Crimes Superintendent, Geoff McKechnie, to make it a Task Project to investigate shelter for cattle feedlots in summer, or during periods of excessive heat. To view a copy of an article about this project in Release magazine 01/2011, please click on the download icon below.

Profile of the Australian Kangaroo: A Media Analysis

MONASH UNIVERSITY

Professor Eleonora Gullone of Monash University was awarded a $5,000 Voiceless grant to fund her project ‘Profile of the Australian Kangaroo: A Media Analysis’. This report examines the role played by the media in the Australia’s current attitudes toward the kangaroo. To view a copy of this report please click on the download icon below.

Big Birds, Big Cruelty.

ANIMAL LIBERATION ACT

‘Big Birds, Big Cruelty’ is a community education campaign designed to raise awareness around the little-known issue of factory farmed turkeys in Australia. The $6,100 Voiceless grant funded the production of a significant research report about the factory farming of turkeys in Australia. The report is one element of a broader community education program, which has seen a phase of local grassroots campaigning on this issue. Animal Liberation ACT has held dedicated stalls at the Living Green Festival and the Cruelty Free Festival, as well as leafleting and educational presentations to students at the University of Canberra. Leading up to Christmas, a feature on turkeys was published by Animal Australia which was complemented by continuing campaigns from Animal Liberation NSW and Animal Liberation South Australia, also aimed at raising awareness of turkey cruelty. To view a copy of the report, please click on the download icon below.

http://www.bigbirdsbigcruelty.org

An investigation into whether grief is measurable in animals

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

The University of Queensland was awarded the Peoples Choice Award worth $10,000 to fund their research report titled ‘An investigation into whether grief is measurable in animals’. In what will be a scientific first, researchers as the University of Queensland will investigate whether animals experience grief when members of their herd are removed. Non-invasive research will be carried out on a herd of cattle through the observation of behavioural changes and analysis of milk samples for physiological changes. Project manager and PhD candidate Jessica Walker says the findings of this research will help inform a greater body of knowledge about animals experience of grief and on their emotional and cognitive abilities. This understanding will lead to improved welfare outcomes and husbandry practices. The final report is expected during 2014.