The Age (Australia)
Police raid Animal Liberation office over 'roo stance
Malcolm Brown
May 4, 2009
http://www.theage.com.au/national/police...90503-arf8.html

NSW and Queensland police have raided the offices of the animal
welfare group Animal Liberation in Sydney, seizing documents and
computer files in the latest development in a prolonged war over the
slaughter of kangaroos and their export for human consumption.

Animal Liberation chief executive Mark Pearson said the warrant
specified allegations that members of the group had wilfully
contaminated carcasses for the purposes of causing "public alarm or
loss", and of breaking into a house for the purposes of committing a
serious, indictable offence.

The allegations, which the group denied, were that group members in
NSW and Queensland had set about entering kangaroo chillers —
containers in which carcasses are dumped after killing and kept cool
before removal to processing centres — and had placed contaminated
material in them to produce adverse quality test results.

Pretty sure the hunters nor the regular public would be doing such a thing. Thus it seems likely that the meat tests proved someone was taking such action & since these are the folks with vested interest in making sure nobody gains economic value for the culls, I figure the cops got it right. Those factors tell you how sick the ARA fanatics are.




Mr Pearson said that had not happened and there was no need for it,
because tests commissioned by Animal Liberation and contained in a
report by an Israeli-born ecologist and biologist, Dr Dror Ben-Ami,
showed high contamination in some samples anyway.

Dr Ben-Ami's research, funded by another animal rights organisation,
Voiceless, provided a damning report on the industry. He said: "This
report exposes the realities of the kangaroo industry which include
extensive and alarmingly unhygienic practices, unacceptable suffering
of young kangaroos and the manufacture of false hope that kangaroo
harvesting will alleviate environmental degradation."

The paper, just published, was seized by police on Wednesday last week.

Animal Liberation communications officer Lynda Stoner said that nine
police, led by a NSW detective senior constable and a Queensland
detective-sergeant, spent five hours at the York Street, City,
premises.

Mr Pearson said Animal Liberation had gone into chillers in the
killing areas of western Queensland, but the chillers were unlocked
and all the group had done was to take swabs for analysis.