These gentle dogs are clearly still being treated as waste products, despite the Government's greyhound recovery rebate scheme and TasRacing's no-kill policy.
Another Melbourne Cup day, another opportunity for Tasmanians to understand the cruelty at the heart of the racing industry.
The Greens strongly support the RSPCA and PETA in their call for the Gutwein Government to ban horse whips on the race track.
Tasmanians still don’t know whether anything has changed for the better for animals or the local environment at and near Van Dairy’s farms.
The reason that this is so timely now is because of an awful story that was in the Mercury last week about the death of a dog in Sandy Bay.
In April this year Australia's largest and oldest dairy farm, Van Dairy, made shocking national headlines with claims of animal welfare abuse.
The gross treatment of seals, and apparently normalised culture of cruel and polluting practices, by the salmon industry have been laid bare in RTI documents.
Lutruwita/Tasmania should be clean, green and cruelty-free, but over seven years under the Liberals, the welfare of animals has suffered.
The right to peaceful protest remains protected in Tasmania, following defeat of the Liberals’ draconian, unconstitutional anti-protest amendment Bill.
On Saturday night a harness racer won race 7 in the Tasmania Cup after whipping his horse heavily for the duration and using a cruel practice called hocking.