voiceless: the animal protection institute - Voiceless Media Prize Nominations Open

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Brian Sherman AM, Voiceless co-founder and Director

"Wherever the destination, live exports are intrinsically inhumane...They deserve better, and we can do better. The trade must end.” Brian Sherman AM, 11 August 2011, read more

"If the poultry industry truly cares about the public's right to know how chickens are treated from factory to plate, then consumers deserve nothing less than the honest truth." Brian Sherman AM, 28 July 2011, read more

"A staggering number of sentient beings are churned down the assembly lines of factory farms in Australia each year, as if they were widgets, with no regard for their suffering. We live in a country where animal cruelty is condoned on a daily basis, and allowed under the law." Brian Sherman AM, 21 May 2011, read more

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Voiceless Media Prize Nominations Open

Nominations opened today for the $5,000 Voiceless Media Prize which will recognise the most valuable contribution in the media towards debate on the treatment of animals.

An online nomination form should be submitted by noon on Friday 30th October 2009 for a story published since 1st November 2008 in newspapers, magazines, television, radio or online.

The story must either:

address one of the following areas: factory farming; live export;
kangaroo 'culling' and other hunting and poisoning activities;
animal experimentation; animals in entertainment - zoos, circuses and rodeos; animals killed for fashion – fur and skins; or
examine the ethical relationship between human and non-human animals; or
bring attention to the sentience of animals.

Judges include: J M Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner for literature and Voiceless Patron; The Hon Bob Carr, former Premier of NSW; Emeritus Prof David Weisbrot AM, President of the ALRC and Ondine Sherman & Brian Sherman AM, Voiceless Managing Directors.

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