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SUBMISSION to review the animal Welfare Strategy.
The reasons why this present strategy must be reviewed is because in some cases it is blatantly corrupted by officials and stakeholders.
I AM 87 YEARS OLD AND I AM SICKENED BY SOME WELFARE CRUELTY.,
1. When the standard for Free Range Eggs was developed, our top scientists from
CSIRO recommended 1,500 hens per hectare was sustainable. They said larger figures would be unsustainable and cause health problems i.e. overcrowding (hens pick each other to death), dust, fumes,eye and respiratory problems.. Federal Ministers, Barnaby Jpyce, Kelly O'Dwyer and Victor
Domicelli passed a standard of 10,000 hens per hectare. This is 6 times over the standard recommended by CSIRO. Our leading consumer Advocate CHOICE boycotted them. Their spokesman, Tom Goddfrey said "These new rules fails the common sense test" Hens were being raised in unnaturally large stocking densities and these farms do noy meet consumer's expctation and don't deserve the free range label.
This process had gone through the Agriculture Senior Officials committee, andThe Animal Welfare Task
Group. The stakeholders had a minimum of animal welfare people present.
A recent contact I had with one of the workers in a 10,000 hen farm, said every morning they go around and pick up the dead bodies.
HOW CAN WE TRUST THIS SORT OF GOVERNANCE
2. We have the continued cruelty to our clever pigs (more ntelligent than a dog). We know that the triple strength CO2 gassing burns the pigs lungs and cause a shocking, excruciating death. How as a department do you turn a blind eye to these barbaric procedures. These animals live a gross life before they are slaughtered.
3. In your Animal Welfare standards book (? 2017) many areas denote practises of deprivation e.g. there is a recommendation that ducks have enough water to naturally clean their head and nostrils and not to be drip fed alone. How on earth was this practise to deprive ducks of water even started.
4. A year ago I visited a 600 dairy cow barn. Cows walk a short space from the barn to a carousel for milkng 3 times a day. Never outside to graze on grass except about 7 weeks when they are ready to calve. She barely has any contact with that calf she has carried for 9 months before it is whisked away.
You are continuing to allow these disgusting practices/barns to go ahead!.
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There are too many practices to list but the overall truth is that the buck stops with the
Agriculture Department. CALL IT OUT WHEN YOU SEE IT! .We must have a reviewed
Animal Welfare Strategy pass. The profit must not be the priority.
Yours truly,
Val Maslen
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