Animal Welfare
The Greens candidate for Mundingburra, Jenny Brown, urges animal lovers to examine the animal welfare policies of the major parties when considering how to vote at the coming state election.
“Most Australians would be horrified if they fully understood the cruelty involved in the intensive farming practices used to produce much of the food we eat.” Ms Brown said. “The Greens are the only major party with real policies designed to protect farm animals.”
The Greens are opposed to intensive farming practices such as battery hen farming and the use of sow stalls, plus the indefensible live export trade. Ms Brown urges all animal lovers to let the governments, both state and federal, know that they won’t tolerate cruelty to farm animals.
Of special concern to Ms Brown is the suffering of pregnant sows that spend most of their lives confined to metal crates only 60cm wide with a concrete floor, when a more humane alternative of group housing could be used.
Similar cruelty occurs in the egg industry, as most of Australia’s eggs are still produced in cage (battery) systems with each hen standing on a wire floor space the size of an A4 sheet of paper for her entire adult life unable to move freely, stretch or flap her wings. Some producers are using more humane barn-laid and free-range egg systems but at present there is no legal requirement for them to do so.
The European Union plans to ban “battery” cages by 2012 but our current governments have no such plans to end the continuous suffering of the 11.6 million battery-caged hens in Australia. Its time to let our state government know that Queenslanders are compassionate people who care about animal welfare.
Ms Brown encourages animal lovers to ask the various candidates where they stand on this issue and to visit The Greens website for full details of their animal welfare policies.
Anyone wishing to contact her can do so via The Greens website or by phoning 0401553363
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