For decades the Australian pork industry has received government subsidies, paid for by tax-payers, to support 'research and development' and welfare improvements. Yet despite this, they have continued to torture pigs in the cruelest and most barbaric ways, making changes only so far as to improve their capacity to slaughter pigs at an even greater rate. Now the Victorian government has shown that they will continue to support their practices, despite the majority of the public supporting either significant industry reforms or a complete end to the farming and slaughter of these intelligent, sentient animals.
This year, we've shown time and time again that the Government is acting as nothing more than a pawn for industry lobbyists to manipulate in order to preserve the status quo. If we want to see real change for animals, we can't rely on them to act. It is up to us.
As long as animals are bred, confined and killed for food, there will always be pain, fear and suffering. We will never stop fighting until every cage is empty and every slaughterhouse shut down.
Sign the petition to add your voice to the growing number of people demanding an end to the commercial breeding, confinement and slaughter of gentle, intelligent animals.
