Quoted from an e-mail from Animals Australia:
Following a state-wide newspaper advertising blitz by Animals Australia and Brightside Farm Sanctuary, Tasmania’s Primary Industries Minister Bryan Green announced in parliament today (June 10th 2010) that he will ban cruel sow stalls in the state!
Pigs are among the most intelligent species on the planet, and yet have been subjected to one of the cruellest practices ever inflicted on animals in Australia. ‘Sow stalls’ are typically used in factory farming operations across the country to confine and isolate mother pigs during pregnancy. The national Code of Practice permits these animals to be confined in tiny crates, unable even to turn around for months on end, denying them exercise and any quality of life. As a result, pigs suffer painful physical ailments and even depression.
Recently the Tasmanian Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (AWAC) recognised the unacceptable cruelty permitted by the flawed national code, and recommended to Primary Industries Minister Bryan Green that Tasmania take a leading role to become the first state to outlaw the cruel practice of confining sows in stalls. Animals Australia’s representative on the AWAC provided crucial input on the scientific and ethical arguments against confining sows in tiny stalls.
Despite heavy lobbying from Australia’s intensive pork industry, Minister Green has accepted this recommendation, encouraged by a flood of supportive letters and e-mails from thousands of caring Animals Australia supporters.
You can also read a news article about it here. Isn’t this great!? Thanks so much to those of you who did send off e-mails, thank you SO much!
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if you’re a pig then Tasmania is a good place to live… then again if you’re not a pig, Tassie is a good place to live as well! Good on ya Tassie! Equal equality for humans, pigs and everyone.
if you’re a pig then Tasmania is a good place to live… then again if you’re not a pig, Tassie is a good place to live as well! Good on ya Tassie! Equal equality for humans, pigs and everyone.