Australian Greens Senator and Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has described Senator Bridget Mckenzie\u2019s appointment as Agriculture Minister as a disaster for animal welfare.
\nSenator Faruqi has been a driving force in the fight against live exports and for the protection of animals.
\nSenator Faruqi said:
\n\u201cWe thought that the welfare of animals was already at an all time low under the Liberals and Nationals, but with Senator Mckenzie, I am worried it will get much worse.
\n\u201cThis is a Senator who literally wrote to the Queen to try and have the word Royal stripped from the RSPCA\u2019s title because of their work to protect farm animals from cruelty. \u00a0That is how much contempt she has for the individuals and groups fighting to protect animals.
\n\u201cI have no confidence in this Minister to hold the live export industry to account. Senator Mckenzie is one of this cruel industry\u2019s loudest advocates and now she will be responsible for regulating them, which is deeply concerning.
\n\u201cIt is clear that our work for the next three years is cut out for us. The movement to protect animals is gathering strength and we must work to organise and expose animal cruelty.
\n\u201cWe cannot allow animal welfare to be at the mercy of politicians. We need an Independent Office of Animal Welfare to drive change to protect animals, free from political interference,\u201d\u00a0she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australian Greens Senator and Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has described Senator Bridget Mckenzie\u2019s appointment as Agriculture Minister as a disaster for animal welfare. Senator Faruqi has been a driving force in the fight against live exports and for the protection of animals. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cWe thought that the welfare of animals was … Continue reading “Senator Mckenzie as Agriculture Minister Will Be A Disaster for Animal Welfare”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}