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AAQ Investigates Ekka Cruelty
Each year Animal Activism Queensland investigates the many animal exhibits at the Brisbane Ekka, and without fail, documents evidence of animal cruelty and breaches of care regulations at an event that is supposed to epitomise the standards of animal husbandry in our state. These romanticised exhibits of farmyard facades propel the misconception of the idyllic family farm in the minds of city-goers and hide the truth of the intensive factory farming conditions most animals in Queensland are raised in. Industrialised agriculture is ruining Australia's environment - land clearing for cattle rearing according to Professor Ian Lowe is the biggest threat to biodiversity in this country. Tree clearing wipes out habitats for native animals and changes the climate, soil and chemical run off is contributing to the death of the Great Barrier Reef. So too, the factory farms in which most of our animal food products are produced are cruel, environmentally degrading and bad for us, effluent pollution destroying the ecological health of waterways, antibiotic pollution of meat having dire effects for human health through the creation of antibiotic resistant bacteria, to name just a few problems. But these things are tolerated in a system where profit is the prime motive, where trade takes precedence over human and ecological health. The Ekka paints a favourable picture of the farmers love for his prize animals, of the salt-of-the-earth working man, or the family farm where traditional values like mum's scones and the wearing of Akubra's are all harmless symbols. There are declining numbers of family farms as globalised companies buy them out, and financial & ecological pressures mean farmers are no longer able to guarantee the pleasant life in green paddock we imagine is the lot of the farm animal. As such, the Ekka is an exercise in glossing over the often-ugly realities of what industrial agriculture has done to the outback and what globalised farming will do to the world. Animal Activism QLD demands that animals are not used in entertainment. But until that happens animals must be kept in conditions that meet the standards of the RSPCA and DPI, Animal Care and Protection Act, including 17(3), 18, and the RSPCA’s Five Freedoms. None of these conditions are adhered to according to the photographic and video evidence gathered by AAQ at many of the yearly exhibits including: • Pig Races, the 'Flying Pig' & Expo Pig’ and more... Read more about the investigations in the EKKA Cruelty Report |
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