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Proposed anti trespass legislation jeopardising animal welfare

21/2/2015

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This week's shocking revelations exposing ''blooding'' in the greyhound racing industry has rightly created a huge reaction from the public. It had lead to the sacking of the NSW  Greyhound racing board including the CEO. But the very method used to expose ''blooding'', and countless other animal welfare concerns, is about to become illegal. 

Last week, Liberal Senator Chris Back tabled a private Senator's Bill aimed at addressing escalating trespass incidents on Australian livestock facilities by animal rights activists, gathering video footage covertly. This was supported by Senator, Barnaby Joyce.  Both sighted the potential for vigilantism as the reason for their concern. 

I can assure you - if this undercover footage had not been made available to the media almost nothing would have been done. Neglected and abused animals cannot afford to have this method of achieving transparency to be outlawed. 

I urge members of the Grey hound community to dob in those known to be ''blooding'' and also to use peer pressure to self regulate.  

However, I also strongly urge members of the public not to take matters into their own hands and give the senators any justification to pass the anti trespass bill. 


Most importantly we need to voice our opinion about the proposed anti trespass legislation currently under view before it is too late. 
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Anne Grove
20/2/2015 07:28:34 am

I presume the legislation you are referring to Alyson is the Ag Gag legislation. It has been seen too many times, that the only way to bring the truth out about animal cruelty is to obtain undercover footage of what goes on every day in our piggeries, dairies and slaughterhouses. Without organisations like Animals Australia and other similar groups, we would never know and the perpetrators of cruelty would be free to carry on untouched. To make obtaining this footage a crime, is sentencing animals to continued horrors.

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