WA Parliament fails mother pigs

6 April 2011 Have your say

On April 5th the WA Parliament voted on a motion that could have legally prohibited the use of sow stalls in WA beyond 2017. Despite significant support, the motion was not passed. 12 MPs voted in favour of the motion, 17 against.

This failure of the WA Government to protect the welfare of mother pigs further demonstrates that hope for these animals rests squarely in the hands of informed consumers.

Our thanks go to the hundreds of concerned people who wrote to the WA government at short notice to encourage a vote in favour of mother pigs. Though this motion was defeated in parliament, the public groundswell against factory farming continues to rise.

Growing consumer pressure has already led to major decisions by supermarket giant Coles and an industry-wide voluntary phase out of sow stalls by the Australian pork industry. Soon governments will have no choice but to follow suit. You can help speed the end of factory farming by taking part in these simple actions:

• Send an instant campaign message to Woolworths, IGA, Ritchies and Franklins asking them to follow the lead of Coles and to make their pork products range sow stall free.
• Become an informed consumer. Discover the whole truth about factory-farmed pork, bacon and ham and make the Pro Pig Pledge to help save pigs from suffering right now!
• Fill in a customer feedback form: All animals in factory farms suffer needlessly. Next time you visit the supermarket, please ask them to refuse to stock factory farmed products.
• Order your free consumer action pack to help fight factory farming.
  

Post a commentYour Say: 21 comments

Val: Do You Wan To Know A Secret Tuesday, 1 November 2011 at 6:10am

I have put this on this moning on 6pr and CurtinFM radio.I hope they play it today.Melbourne Cup Day.Its for all the Bobby Calves who are so cruelly starved and then killed.I will try an alternative milk one day.I have asked on here for alternatives to dairy milk.If I received an answer i am sorry i was sad as my fur person got a home from animal protection society.It's on 6pr now.Listen in.in Perth.

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peter: 24683 cattle loaded for Indonesia Friday, 16 September 2011 at 3:27pm

Adelaide Advertiser newspaper today 16/9 - Australias largest cattle exporter is boasting a world record for the largest shipment of live animals. The MV Ocean Shearer the largest stock transporter in the world left Darwin yest with a record 24 683 steers on board for Indonesia. They, the exporters, are obvioulsy making up for the losses in numbers during the one month ban in July .I believe the livestock exporters Elders etc get about $5  for each animal loaded, no wonder they dont want this  trade to stop.

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Peter: 600 cattle loaded Townsville 11.9.11 Monday, 12 September 2011 at 2:54pm

ABCs Landline program 11.9.11 said 600 cattle were loaded at Townsville enroute to Darwin to pick up more animals bound for Indonesia. Nothing has changed with regard to slaughter in Indonesia and a horrible fate equal to what was shown on 4 Corners awaits them. All is status quo tks to Gillard and co. I wonder if the 4 Corners story has been shown overseas on TV, in particular USA and Europe, because the world needs to know of this barbaric, medieval cruelty. We need their support to stop this outdated live export trade. Its time to move on, the year is 2011.

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Jewel Rainbow: Call for Cruelty-Free Farming Monday, 5 September 2011 at 1:42pm

Whether are not people choose to eat meat, there can be absolutely no excuse for mistreating farm animals or housing them in ways that restrict their ability to exercise or even turn around in some instances. Any so-called farmer who owns or operates a factory farm should ask themselves is there a better way that would allow the animals a decent life where they can be happy, not stressed and miserable. The answer is yes - there are alternatives to all of the abusive methods some farmers utilise - and there is now an international movement in support of compassionate cruelty-free farming. Get with it, Aussie farmers and state and federal governments - the public will no longer tolerate cruelty to farm animals, just as it is not tolerated towards pets (nor should it be).

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Trudydk: Where do they get the ideas? Friday, 5 August 2011 at 8:40pm

I find it appalling the way humans treat animals.  What sort of people come up with the ideas that chickens should be stuffed into small cages with their beaks cut off, that sows should be restrained in a space too small to turn around..the list of abusive farming behaviour goes on and on...to inject with hormones and antibiotics.. why? to produce a few more? are we so short of food that mankind has to 'invent' these barbaric and torturous treatment  and deprive animals of their natural behaviour and instincts.  Where is their humanity for living creatures?  How do they sleep at night.

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Jodie Thomas: Enough is Enough Thursday, 23 June 2011 at 7:08pm

Im sitting here wondering how on earth  the people in this world can end up being so unaffected by all this torture and cruelty to our most precious asset we have been blessed with,our animals. All my life I have found myself crying and depressed every time I have wittnessed cruelty, starvation and suffering of animals. This however does not compare to how our animals are feeling  day to day ,so why should I complain. Well I am. To all of you who are tired of crying and breath the same air as I, please fight with me to end this suffering once and for all so we can all live in peace as it should be.

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Margaret Jackson: Please Help Saturday, 11 June 2011 at 8:29pm

Please help the animals that can't help themselves, We eat meat, but there has to be a more humane way of doing things than what has be shown on TV lately. I'm ashamed to say I never knew how animals were killed and the more I'm hearing and seeing makes me sick

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Lisa Andrews: Live Exports Saturday, 11 June 2011 at 10:32am

Good on our government for the live export ban BUT we need to take a good look at ourselves Australia with regards to the way we treat our pigs & sheep..... THAT IS SO BAD & IT'S ANIMALS ABUSE!!!!

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Roslyn Dorrington: Animal Rights Thursday, 2 June 2011 at 12:40pm

I am ashamed to be a human being after witnessing footage of Four Corners this week.  How could anyone be so unashamedly cruel and brutal to innocent, terrified animals.  There is no excuse!!!! The Government must cease live animal exports immediately.  Social conscience must always override the dollar.  Australian farmers exporting their animals to overseas destinations to face such a fate cannot be considered human.  Shame ! Shame! Shame!  Come on Australia fight this all the way!!!!!  Disgusting

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Leanne: Sending Australian Animals To Indonesia Wednesday, 1 June 2011 at 8:53pm

Oh My God!! Just watched the channel 10 news at dinnertime. They showed footage on t.v about what is going on in Indonesian abattoirs. It's on the internet too! Just HORRIFIC Stuff!! I personally think that Ms. Julia Gillard needs to get real and re-asses the situation. NO Animal deserves this torture and cruelty bestowed upon them. This must STOP NOW!! Please, everybody, speak up and support these poor defensless animals that has been sent into the hands of these CRUEL Indonesian Bastards!! How would the Indonesians who do these things like this to be done to them. No, they Wouldn't. So, they should stop treating animals like this. By the way I have been a vegetarian since I was 13 years old, and DAMN Proud of it. Love Animals ALWAYS.

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Natalie: Stop killing animals for human consumption Wednesday, 1 June 2011 at 8:21pm

Hey guy's i am a massive animal lover ..... And i personally think that anmial crulty is totally unaccepable  .... Please help me to stop what is going on around the world and in indonesia ....

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daniela rosenthal: Absurdo Thursday, 26 May 2011 at 12:36pm

Absurdo, coitadinhos desses bichinhos que nada fizeram de mal pra merecer uma vida dessa causada pelo Ser não humano...

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Ivana Moretti: rednecks Tuesday, 12 April 2011 at 9:27am

As usual WA squanders  an opportunity to change it's reputation as a cultural backwater run by uneducated rednecks.

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Kathryn Saunders: Love and respect to all animals.. Sunday, 10 April 2011 at 7:38pm

Ashamed, ashamed to be an Australian as well as being part of the human race

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luena maria castelo branco correa: proteçao animal Thursday, 7 April 2011 at 4:25am

parem de maltratas os animais,eles tem sentimentos e sofrem,pelo habito terrivel de vcs que os comem e nao sabem como eles sao mortos de forma cruel e terrivel.

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luena maria castelo branco correa: proteçao animal Thursday, 7 April 2011 at 4:24am

salvar os animais de maustratos e torturas

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Brenda Hume Hume: Give the pigs "LIFE" before death Wednesday, 6 April 2011 at 10:07pm

I cry and I plead to all whom hold the fete of these beautiful animals in their hands to look beyond money, productivity, consumerism and economical venture and beg "Please, please do all you can to give these intelligent animals some form of comfort and "life" prior to reaching their ultimate destiny.....an early death after longstanding suffering.

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