Apologies if this has already been posted. Don't have enough time lately to scan the boards. cheers

*Animal rights group seeks council policy against intensive farming*

Animal Liberation is hoping Lake Macquarie council, on the New South Wales central coast, will be the first local government body in Australia to develop a policy opposing intensive farming practices.

State executive director Mark Pearson says such a policy would require all development applications for battery hen farms, broiler chicken facilities or intensive piggeries to be rejected.

Mr Pearson says the council agreed at last night's meeting to prepare a report and call for public submissions on the concept.

"They're a council that have indicated forward thinking and taking some stands in relation to animal welfare in the past, but also the circumstances ... here in Lake Macquarie are that two intensive farms have just recently been shut down, an intensive battery hen facility and also an intensive piggery," he said.

"There are only about 90,000 battery hens left in the Lake Macquarie area and those cages will be unlawful as of 2008."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1524542.htm


Please write to Lake Macquarie council and let them know that you totally support their measures to rid factory farms from their district.

Please contact via online feedback form:
http://www.lakemac.com.au/feedback_general.asp




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Queensland Group for Animal Rights
http://www.qgar.oceandrop.org