Some 500 million production animals are excluded from any kind of protective legislation by the Australian government. Instead, they have been left abandoned, resulting in constant suffering through horrible housing conditions, acts of cruelty, malnutrition and more.
The only ones who are protected are the industries profiting from animal suffering.
For those of you who eat pork consider where you buy it from. 350,000 mother pigs and 5.7 million piglets every year must endure unnecessary pain and suffering through the failure to provide any form of exercise, docking of piglets' tails, clipping of their teeth, castration of male piglets without any anaesthetic; severe individual confinement, constant standing or lying causing lameness, foot injuries, lesions and weakened bones.
11 million laying hens in this country deal with severe confinement in wire cages, unable to spread their wings, exercise or perform any natural behaviours, resulting in mental and physical suffering, The debeaking of chicks is extremely painful as it cuts through nerves and can remain painful indefinitely.
420 million chickens a year are shoved into confining sheds, causing suffering and pain through selective breeding and high growth feed resulting in bone deformities, fractures, hip dislocations and diseases. These chickens are the only livestock that are in chronic pain for the last 20% of their lives.
And 20 million lambs a year endure painful mutilations without any anaesthetic, their tails cut off and the males castrated, but the worst offense is when the lambs are 'mulesed' which involves cutting slices of skin from the buttocks to produce a wool-less scar area that is less likely to attract flies... while they are still alive.
Are you comfortable that hundreds of millions of production animals are suffering every year so that you can get your produce quicker and cheaper?
If not then follow the link and write to your state Minister and ask them to remove any exemptions provided to animals industry operators and to provide these animals with the protection they need. You can also email supermarkets like Woolworths and Coles, and tell them you do not agree with factory farming and will not buy your produce there until they stop supporting it.
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