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exploitation. Ms Sims said people were becoming sick and tired of injustices against animals, including the gassing of pigs for slaughter and baby cows being killed in the dairy industry.
“This is the largest growing movement in the 21st cen- tury,” she said. “If this was happening to dogs, there would be an outcry. We’re hoping for people to open up their eyes and hearts. Everyone believes they are compassionate, but you can’t be when you’re paying others to inflict pain on (animals).”
At Jodie Alderton’s home in Highland Park, her menagerie of ducks, chickens, goats, a mule, ponies, cats and dogs all get along.
“People don’t understand their feelings, they need to be addressed,” she said.
“Not just given water and food. Sometimes we speak in a Doctor Doolittle way here, that they’re all equal.”
The march is being held at Justins Park in Burleigh Heads. There will be a vegan barbecue, speakers and entertainment available from 10am to 5pm. CHEMICALS found in sofas, car seats and even yoga mats may be making it harder for women to become pregnant.
Flame retardants used in furniture escape into the air as dust. A Harvard University study of women undergoing IVF found those who had breathed in more of these chemicals were nearly a third less likely to become pregnant.
It is believed the flame retardants, often used in foam stuffing, disrupt hormones that are important for fertility. Studies suggest they also make men’s sperm swim slower.