The document discusses how high heel wearing habits are changing. It notes that many female workers are choosing mid-heels over skyscraper heels for the office in order to look professional while also being more comfortable. A shoe expert says lower heels are becoming more popular worldwide. The document also discusses how sales of organic meat have increased as shoppers seek ethical options after footage showed cruel treatment of Australian cattle in Indonesian slaughterhouses. Butchers have been fielding many questions about the source and treatment of their meat.

1. 18 NEWS thesundaymail.com.au
Organic To the point: Larissa
Frommelt, 19, limits her
high-heel wearing.
Picture: Adam Armstrong
Heels lose
foothold
meat up
Jackie Sinnerton
NINE-to-five female workers are
giving skyscraper heels the boot.
Killer heels are no longer
considered city chic for Queensland
working women who are opting to
protect their feet and their credibility.
Shoppers react to cruelty ‘‘More and more shoe shoppers are
opting for mid-heels because they
want to look professional and have
Kelmeny Fraser exactly where its meat comes from, more comfort, but still maintain a
Samantha Healy the names, the farms, whether it’s touch of elegance. And I think that
lamb, pork or chicken.’’ will soon be the trend worldwide,’’ said
SALES of organic meat have spiked Boutique butcher James Starr of shoe guru Natalie Mainwaring of Nat-
as shoppers shocked by the cruel Kenmore’s James’ Connoisseur Sui Shoes in Fortitude Valley.
treatment of Australian cattle over- Meats said he had fielded constant ‘‘I have just been overseas to check
seas seek out ethical options. questions since the Four Corners out the styles for next winter and
One organic meat shop in the program. lower heels are on the way.
Brisbane region has recorded a 10 per ‘‘I can tell you where my beef is ‘‘Most women love a pair of killer
cent rise in sales in the weeks since grown, what breed it is, how much it heels and the platform designs are
graphic footage showing the cruel weighed when it was slaughtered, beautiful, but there is a time and place.
treatment of Australian cattle in what the fat content was, almost up And hobbling along the cobbled areas
Indonesian slaughterhouses aired on to what name it went by,’’ he said. of the CBD on your way to work is not
Four Corners. A month after live cattle exports to the place.’’
Local butchers say they have been Indonesia were suspended, the finan- Larissa Frommelt, 19, from Noosa,
bombarded by questions about the cial cost is mounting for Queensland works in retail and spends many hours
source of their meat and how the graziers still reeling after years of on her feet. ‘‘I love extra tall high-
cattle were treated before being sent drought and natural disasters. heeled platform shoes, but couldn’t
to the abattoir. Cattle industry insiders told The wear them for a whole shift at work,’’
Owner of the Meat-Ting Place at Sunday Mail that the ban would likely she said.
Paddington attributed the 10 per cent be ‘‘the final nail in the coffin’’ for Research suggests prolonged high-
increase in trade to the alarm over some graziers, while other industries heel wearing leads to health problems.
the footage. such as feedlots, road and sea trans-
‘‘I had people asking questions left, port companies and salesyards faced
right and centre,’’ Steve Povey said. similar hardships if a workable de-
‘‘The Meat-ting Place can tell you cision was not made soon.
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