While in principle AFSA supports strengthening permit triggers, application requirements and referral arrangements for genuine
intensive animal industry applications (as per a new definition that excludes genuine small - scale free range farms), caution must be applied when increasing regulatory burden on the farming sector, which is already subject to a high regulatory burden.
Not exact matches
She has helped AFSA establish its voice and authority on a range of issues and secured frequent meetings with a number of politicians to lobby for significant reform, as well as leading the process for submissions to government inquiries, including the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the impact of regulation on agriculture, and the Victorian Government's
Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal husb
Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and
intensive animal husb
animal husbandry.
Despite heavy lobbying from Australia's
intensive pork
industry, Minister Green has accepted this recommendation, encouraged by a flood of supportive letters and e-mails from thousands of caring
Animals Australia supporters.
Training in Production
Animal Health and Management has been significantly enhanced through the introduction of the three year
Animal Systems course, an extra week of clinical rotations, the engagement of an
industry partner to provide courses in
intensive industries and initiatives to ensure exposure to clinical cases.
However, Oklahoma and national
animal protection groups criticize the current way the livestock
industries hold
animals in
intensive confinement and for the industrial practices such as sow crates and chicken debeaking.
Heavy red meat consumption has been linked to higher cancer rates; beef emits 20 times more greenhouse gases than beans; and industrial
animal agriculture is a resource -
intensive, highly polluting
industry.
This will spell certain disaster for dairy farmers everywhere, but perhaps bring respite to a planet that is being overheated and polluted by
animal -
intensive industries such as this one.