Do it. When you hit a certain age it stops your salary going down once you hit the peak of your career curve. When you do it those that are in senior management but don't have it and are jealous and tell you it is worthless. Do it anyway. When downturns come the MBA puts you ahead of those that have equal skills (including social/emotional) but less education.
Each generation is better educated than the last - to keep my salary that of a reasonable living standard in this country for a mature single person, I continue to invest in my education.
MBAs are standard like having undergraduates today. For immigrants I see many now do PHDs to cut them ahead of the pack in this country (Australia). So in my personal experience and opinion, its vital and I'm so glad I committed to doing - I finish this year
"But it was ABC's Four Corners airing of footage in 2011 from slaughterhouses in Indonesia where imported Australian cattle skated and slipped in blood as unskilled workers stabbed and slashed them with blunt knives that triggered a wave of revulsion across Australia. The veteran political writer Michelle Grattan described parliamentary debate after the screening as the most passionate she had seen in years. And yet, come 2013, here we are, still hearing the same excuses, false exclamations of surprise and promises of reforms that haven't worked.
The Egyptian vet responsible for leaking the most recent footage pleaded with Australians to help ''bring pressure to our government to improve its abattoirs'' - but the Australian live export industry has proved time and time again it doesn't have the collective will or influence to improve another country's standards. And I suspect that underneath all this pretence of ''caring'', many in the industry are secretly yearning for the days when people couldn't record this stuff on their mobile phones, or better yet, for the days when animals were considered no more sentient than a phone.
The 'toxic' chemical I know a little about from food and chefs. One of the reasons that red meat and fish 'curl up' when cooked is due to that chemical affecting the protein strands as it makes the meat tough. Therefore they prefer humanely treated if only for this reason of presenting a better product on the plate
I pass no judgement on those who do or do not eat meat. But I think it speaks volumes for a society in how well they treat their animals. Thank goodnees for the work of the animal rights people to get the video footage out to our authorities in this country. They are a brave lot.
Yes it is one that gives pause for thought. Those poor animals. I can only imagine how the poor farmers must be feeling to see this blow up yet again in this country.
So the definitions and perceptions will stem from the beliefs, values and morays of that particular society and culture For countries such as Australia much is founded in Greek philosphy and for law much in Utilitarianism as applied ethics
If you look to ethics it may fall under enlightened self interest; that its really in our self interest to care for others so our alturism and need to reach out springs from this ie the Utilitarin ethics of John Sturat Mill. Of course there are other ethical theories that could also explain this behaviour in more purist terms such as Platos ethics which are pure virtue based ethics.
Its a very vexed issue because in the past we had the same problems with live exports to Indonesia and gross inhumane treatment of livestock
So my question is should Australia in ethical terms be exporting to countries who have already breached international humane treatment of animal laws. I think we need to look at ourselves and question if we can support this trade given the issues wiht such countries in the past.
To clarify the issue is with compliance with international animal welfare guidelines.
(Not with halal as we have halal in this country and Australia is aware of this as part of the international export of live animals agreement entered into)
The issue is with breaches to international animal welfare guidelines on the humane treatment of animals. The breaches are horiffic. This is why the suspension.
so Omda back to your question at hand. I'm sure as there are so many conceptions of 'love' that its easy enough to have muliple simultanous such feelings for individuals and I know I do too.
On this site religion keep getting dragged into things that have nothing to to with the main topic. Makes me want to take a shower every time.
Thanks NS
Very interesting tangent
To me it's more about ethics and track records of countries in human rights, so if poor, they are hardly able to concern themselves with the welfare of animals. So in the end should Australia really be exporting live animals to such countries particularly when vile things have been found and recoreded (despite some countries paranoias probably regionally justified with regard to freeedom of the press)
In the end inhumane is inhumane even when it's with regards to animals. As Singer points out how we treat our animals is a good pointer to how just and ethical we are in our humanity as a country.
agree. Much horror committed in the name of religion. But thats a side issue to the main topic sentence which is Animal Cruelty and live exports and countries that commit atrocities upon animals for whatever horrible reason they claim justifies. In Australia that is not on.
Thanks lovely. I didn't post as I'm very sensitive to such things and out of respect to people who are similar to myself. It is a distressing thing. All over our news currently.
Interesting ob Tiger I love reading the comments sections in our on line newspapers such as The Age in this coutnry. Very thoughtful insightful comments from very erudite people. So I guess different media attract different demographics.
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Ta O. Great to be understood. I hate BS terms like this that catch out the lay people
RE: The MBA Bubble
Do it. When you hit a certain age it stops your salary going down once you hit the peak of your career curve. When you do it those that are in senior management but don't have it and are jealous and tell you it is worthless. Do it anyway.When downturns come the MBA puts you ahead of those that have equal skills (including social/emotional) but less education.
Each generation is better educated than the last - to keep my salary that of a reasonable living standard in this country for a mature single person, I continue to invest in my education.
MBAs are standard like having undergraduates today. For immigrants I see many now do PHDs to cut them ahead of the pack in this country (Australia). So in my personal experience and opinion, its vital and I'm so glad I committed to doing - I finish this year