TESCO

Kangaroos are gentle, sensitive and intelligent creatures. We kill several million in frightful ways each year. They are slaughtered in scenes of medieval violence and cruelty. The pictures of what goes on are simply too horrific to be shown here.

Grotesquely, kangaroo meat is now being offered for sale in certain UK stores. Behind every sanitised meat product sold in the supermarket lies a story. It is a bloody, gruesome and horrific story which Tesco don't want you to know.

Sometimes, kangaroos are killed for fun in the name of 'sport'. Sometimes, they are killed to gratify a macabre human fancy for new forms of dead animal flesh.

Kangaroo babies, the helpless joeys, are often clubbed to death too. Every night, young kangaroos suffer a slow and lingering agony after their mothers have been shot and bludgeoned. The orphaned joeys eventually starve or die of hypothermia.

Thus the pretty pictures of animals found on these pages can only disguise the sordid realities of the meat trade itself.

Somehow the atrocities must be stopped.

Tesco, meanwhile, are trying to make money from the nightly bloodbath. The superstore chain is now, quite legally, marketing kangaroo flesh as 'exotic meat'.

Human greed and cynicism have few limits. In the light of history, it is hard to be shocked at the nastier extremes of human behaviour. Yet profiting from this vile and gruesome business is morally indefensible in any civilised society. In all conscience, it should be banned by law.

Consumer boycotts of companies which promote suffering on such a scale may appear to be only a small and token gesture. The amount of pain in the world can easily seem to dwarf all our attempts to minimise it. We must simply do our best, however little that may be.

Moral arguments do have a habit of becoming easier to appreciate when they coincide with financial self-interest. So we must hope that Tesco reconsiders its decision to stock exotic meats after weighing up the moral dimension - and perhaps their company balance-sheets - once more.

Tescos can be e-mailed with your views at:
company_secretary@tesco.e-mail.com

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"We recognise, I hope, our special responsibilities to the aged and infirm, towards the sick, the mentally subnormal and the physically handicapped. We say that such sentient creatures that are less able to care for themselves deserve our special care and support. The same argument applies to children - and we as adults claim we recognise special duties towards them. If this is so, then why do we not recognise our special duties towards individuals from less clever species?" Richard Ryder

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