PALM SUNDAY
DONKEYS
Riverside's St David's
Anglican Church
celebrated Palm Sunday
in a unique way - by
having donkeys in the
church.
The reason being that
Palm Sunday was the
day when after 3 years
of public
ministry,Jesus,a
donkey and flanked by his supporters entered Jerusalem.
People came from everywhere to witness this event.
They pathed the way before him by laying their cloaks and branches
on the ground like a multi-coloured carpet.
The next week saw Jesus being put to death by popular appeal,and
later rise from the dead.
Bonnie and Jake travelled from Hobart on Saturday with their
owner,Gaylene and her 2 helpers.
Gaylene's donkeys are available to attend churches around the state.
The service was a Sharing and Learning Together service featuring
the donkeys at 10-00 am and followed by free rides,tea and coffee.
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LAMBS
Did you know 4.5 million lambs are killed each year for
their pelts - this is about the same rate as the fox.
For every foetal pelt,2 animals must die - the mother and
her lamb(s).
Karakul is made from pelts of both foetal and newborn lambs.
A pregnant ewe is usually slaughtered after she has produced 3 - 5
lambs.she is killed without stunning; instead,she is pinned to the
slaughterhouse floor by workers, her throat slashed nd her head twisted
off.The carcass is then hoisted for skinning.
The uterus is torn open for retrieval of the foetus - the "broadtail" fur,whose
luminous sheen resembles watered silk.There are gradations of pelt
character,depending on the stage of development.
For example,fur taken from a foetus 15 days before natural birth is
smoother than that of a foetus taken five days before birth.
Take action by clicking the lamb.
http://www.hsus.org/specials/lamb.html
Karakul fur is popular with the mainstream fashion industry,not just
reserved for the avant garde designers,including CHRISTIAN
DIOR,GUCCI,KARL LAGERFELD,RALPH LAUREN,YVES SAINT
LAURENT.
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