Whats your stance on animal rights people telling indigenous people not to hunt and kill kangaroos?
A. As an animal liberationist I obviously do not think any animal should be hunted but if animal rights people are going to waste their time telling indigenous people not to hunt then they are obviously not up with the figures of how many kangaroos are hunted by the white man. (see the John Kelly interview) For every one complaint about an aboriginal person in the Outback hunting their own food, there are 100’s of complaints on how the white man kills his food. And everytime I hear how indigenous people hunt kujongs and kangaroos I want to say to these people: “99.9% of the problem is with institutionalised cruelty and intensive farming practices.” If we are serious about animal rights let’s look at where the most harm is being done. Q. How can we expect full personhood rights for non-human animals when it took the white invader over 200 years to recognise indigenous Australians as having any rights? A. Well, there is still no Treaty and that would be a good start to build and heal som
