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Animal Protection) Bill 2015 Committee Secretary Senate Standing Committees on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 (If sending by email: By email: [email protected]) 11 March 2015 Dear Committee Members, I am writing to make a submission in support of the Criminal Code Amendment (Animal Protection) Bill 2015. In previous generations every family had a country cousin or friend and would go and visit them during the school holidays. People learnt about farms and farming practices, why these practices were undertaken and knew the importance of food security and a secure supply of it. Sadly as some farming businesses have expanded, others have sold and left the land. This has led to less people living on the land and therefore a reduction in country cousins for people to visit and learn from. Coupled with this the population has also expanded within the metropolitan areas. People are beginning to lose touch with where their food comes from and are developing a disconnect with those of us who are in the country growing food and fibre. Australian farmers go about their business, just as people in the city go about theirs. Unintentionally, a divide has formed over the years between people in the city and people in the country. Sadly the vast majority of people have not got the time or the inclination to bridge this gap. This ever widening gap has allowed misinformation and suspicion of practices undertaken by primary producers to spread, almost unchecked. People seeking information about where their food is coming from are being intentionally misguided and misinformed by fanatical groups of people who are determined to end animal agriculture. In recent years we have seen increasingly violent, inaccurate and downright offensive attacks on animal agriculture. These attacks are varied from break ins on farms where video footage is taken without permission violating the right to privacy of the owner of the business and property, animals being stolen under the guise of being “rescued” and farmers being physically assaulted for doing nothing more than disturbing these individuals while they are trespassing on their property. Animal rights activists claim that they care about animals and continuously attack animal agriculture and people within the farming community while promoting a lifestyle of veganism. They show complete disregard for biosecurity laws and endanger the health of the animals that they claim to be saving as well as the general public. They use their activities to raise funds to further attack animal agriculture and in some cases fund their own hobby farms that they term as “farm animal sanctuaries” which are filled with animals that they have been stolen from genuine hard working primary producers. Attacking Animal Agriculture Animals Rights activists illegally obtain footage by trespassing and recording or photographing without permission, they then edit the footage to ensure the farm is shown in the worst possible light and then publish the footage online. They remove the date and time stamps on the recordings so that the general public can’t see how long they have held onto the footage before releasing it. They do not report the footage to authorities who can legally address what is being shown in the recordings. In many cases the animal right activists hold onto the footage until it’s outside the time period in which they can be charged for trespass, before publishing it. When the footage is published it is done so in conjunction with a social media campaign urging supporters to sign petitions, donate to their cause and encourage people to “share” the edited footage with their friends and families. There have also been cases of the footage being released by television channels as “exclusive footage”. When this happens the groups are ready with a social media campaign and even dedicated websites to further push their cause and gather donations. This Facebook post by Animal Liberation Victoria (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153851293022195&set=vb.263328217194&type= 2&theater) was viewed by 19,077 people, shared by 1,522 people, liked by 593 people, and received 320 comments. Comments include: No such thing as humane animal farming As it happens i have studied animal behaviour at University. Aside from that...mammals have in common amongst many other things a central nervous system and all have evolved to survive by responding to a pain or fear stimulus through the various senses...sight, smell, touch etc. The automatic response to perceived threat or pain is to vocalise, as a newborn to motivate parental protection and later to warn clan or herd members of danger. When horns, tails, teeth are removed from animals on factory farms without anaesthetic or flesh is burnt in branding, when animals smell the blood, hear the cries of their herd members in a slaughter house they understand those cries and want to escape, to stay alive like all living things, like you and I , they shake with terror and they scream. Do you seriously dispute the science of this? I wonder why you are so defensive and angry? Could it be that you are either making an income from the exploitation and therefore the suffering of animals or that you are a meat eater and searching for a defence for supporting this cruelty. Brave people in many of the animal welfare groups right here in Australia have filmed and photographed sometimes secretly, sometimes by getting employment in factory farms and abattoirs. there are many videos and photos that have been shown commercially and on Facebook. Animals Australia have shown videos on Television. If you go to their site some may be available from there. Hardly any of our Animal Welfare laws in Australia apply to farmed animals.Tail docking of dogs for example is illegal but is a routine procedure on piglets without anaesthetic. "Correct ways" or legal handling animals on factory farms include many forms of torture such as dehorning, branding, tail docking, mulesing,tooth clipping. beak removal all without even painkillers. force feeding, force impregnating confining animals for their whole lives to minute living spaces such as caged chickens, cow stalls, veal boxes and thousands of animals die in ships on export boats in confined, ammonia filled dark quarters where they otherwise live for weeks on end. And then there is the terror of the transporting and final horror of the slaughterhouse where the so called humane stunning only actually works part of the time.Most farm animals live only a small fraction of their normal life expectancy. Please look at some of the earlier posts on this thread. I am surprised you are unaware of them. After the footage is released farmers, workers and businesses are attacked and referred to as abusers on websites (e.g. “Aussie Pigs” http://aussiepigs.com/abusers) when no charges have been laid or have been dropped by the relevant authorities. There have also been cases of some photographs of farmers as well as their personal details and contact details provided without their permission (Aussie Pigs website.(http://aussiepigs.com/piggeries/golden- grove http://aussiepigs.com/piggeries/wally). Questionably obtained footage and public demonization of animal agriculture can be found on the following websites: http://www.aussiefarms.org.au/, http://www.aussieabattoirs.com/, http://www.aussieturkeys.com.au/, http://www.aussiechickens.com.au/, http://www.aussieeggs.com/, http://www.aussieducks.com.au/. Animal Liberation (http://www.animal-lib.org.au/campaigns/animals-for-food), Animals Australia (http://www.animalsaustralia.org/issues/dairy.php), and Voiceless (http://www.voiceless.org.au/the-issues), to name a few, all participate in the demonization of animal agriculture. It is also not just large corporate charities that are publishing and demonizing people who participate in animal agriculture. There is an increasing trend for animal rights activists to use social media to share photographs and stories from when they have broken into these farms. These individuals regularly demonize animal agriculture on their web pages as well as social media. They also ask for donations to support their hobby farms, sell photographs of their “rescued animals” and photographs taken whilst illegally trespassing, making profits from crime. Endangering the Health of Farm Animals and the General Public Animal rights activists have no regard for on farm biosecurity measures. They will break into several piggeries and chicken farms in a weekend to covertly film, photograph and “rescue” animals. When this happens biosecurity has been breached and the farmer must then take measures to rectify this including, but not limited to, destroying stock that could potentially have been affected. This is done at a cost to the producer. If there was to be an outbreak of avian or swine flu these animal rights activists could assist in spreading this to hobby farmers and other commercial properties. This also applies for sheep production properties that are footrot free. Having an animal rights activist trespass onto a sheep producers property with dirt on their shoes from an infected property would lead to an outbreak of footrot within that farmers property as footrot is a fungal disease that is able to live in soil. Animal rights activists target sickly animals in their break-ins to “rescue” and take to a better life at a farm animal sanctuary: “At 12.30pm on January 30th, 2015 I received a phone call. The caller was upset, she said “This place is disgusting [Name Removed]. There’s swarms of flies everywhere. There’s pig skeletons. It’s horrific”. I hung up with a heavy heart with images of intensive piggeries I’d visited in the past in my mind. Ten minutes later I got another call – “I’m on the way to your house.
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