As you are no doubt aware cruelty to animals is a marker of criminal psychopathology in individual perpetrators.
Cultures which accept such behaviours need to re-examine their mores in light of this knowledge. This is how genuinely civil societies evolve. The European Union has formally acknowledged this in its legislative framework; Australia has not.
If the livestock industry in this country is to thrive it needs to take into account growing public revulsion at its connivance in the inhumane practices in Halal, Kosher and other abattoirs overseas and in Australia.
As an accountable legislator and public office bearer what is your attitude to this? How can an unwilling industry be forced to reform itself?
Self regulation is an absurd oxymoron and governments appear too timid to impose regulation on powerful industries.
What then is the role of governments? How are you acting to ensure openness and reform in dealing with the gross affront of animal cruelty in Australia and overseas?
Yours sincerely,
Philip Gorman
Channel Highway
Tasmania 7112
