Review: Australia the Walkabout of a Lifetime

Now about to hit theatres across Canada, Australia is about the Wizard of Oz and walkabouts, for each of the main characters in this film have to do their own spiritual journey to reach the conclusion each of us eventually make: life is magical when you are free to believe in it and make it so.

Please go see Australia, but be willing to embark on your personal walkabout. I have.

Pigsblood and Cowshit Soaking the BC Forests

Amongst all the myriads of industrial horrors that treeplanters are exposed to in BC, nothing is more disgusting than the use of the Swedish-invented pigs blood product called "Plantskyyd." Thanks to Gordo, the American pig-slaughtering industry has now found an eager destination to spew their offal by-product: into BC forests.


This product is designed to induce fear in the herbivores (deers, rabbits, marmots etc.) that normally occupy the ranges which were once forests.

As well, the new tree plantations are sometimes overbrowsed by hungry cows.

In Haida Gwaii, the new plantations are overbrowsed by deer, which were imported by deer-deprived Christian missionaries a hundred years ago.

Thus, in one fell swoop, Gordon Campbell has desecrated the forests, all for profit.

In 20 years' time, let it beknown that pigs were sacrificed to nourish the trees that make up BC lumber especially within Weyerhauser plantations.