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Animal Policy

One of the more bizarre Greens' Policies is their Animal Policy.

The policy is so extreme, Greenswatch is very suspicious that the Terrorist Funding PETA Extremists ^{^} are involved in its formulation and will be investigating further for possible links.

The Greens want to ban clothing made from animal hair, such as wool.

Banning Leather and Wool

3.1.4. Ending the captivity and killing of animals for the cosmetic and fashion industries, including the use of fur and skin. ^{^}

Leather (skin) and Wool (fur) are products used by almost everyone and banning them is extreme.

Products affected by the Greens ban:

Clothing

Blankets

Car Seat covers

Shoes

Hats

Lounge Chairs

Furniture

Gloves

If this policy was to be implemented an underground leather and wool blackmarket would develop as people secretly buy and sell their leather and wool. A special police force would have to be developed to enforce the Greens' crazy Wool and Leather prohibition.

The Greens are opposed to prohibition of Drugs, but support prohibition of Leather and Wool ?

Banning Pets

3.3.2. Discouraging impulse buying, by restricting the sale of live companion animals to authorized and regulated breeders. ^{^}

So only breeders can buy animals ? What about the elderly who value the companionship of animals to cure loneliness ?

What about people whose existing pets get pregnant ? Since they can't sell them to anyone they'd have to do it secretly, or dump them.

Again there would be pet smuggling rings and a pet blackmarket, with forged breeder licences being sold on the streets.

The Greens are opposed to prohibition of Drugs, but support prohibition of Pets?

Misc Kookiness

Ending Commercial Killing of Kangaroos - Why ?

Ending live animal exports - Why ? It's the same as a farm pen but on a ship.

Ending Recreational Hunting - What about Feral Pigs, Buffalo, Wild Pigs, Goats, Rabbits and Brumbies ? These feral introduced species destroy the habitat of native animals and are harmful to the environment. More evidence the Greens are hiding their true agenda behind their pretend environmentalism.

Banning Commercial Egg Factories - the price of eggs would increase beyond the ability of most families to afford them. Cakes, pancakes and other egg based foods would become a gourmet food only for the rich.

Banning Commercial Meat Factorys (Pigs and Chickens) - the increase in the price of meat would put pressure on struggling families and kill companies like KFC and Red Rooster.

This one is interesting:

3.6.1 Ensuring that cruel acts and practices against animals by corporate and private offenders are treated as serious crimes. ^{^}

The Greens think crimes against animals are serious, yet crimes against humans, such as drug crimes, aren't serious at all. Good to see the Greens have their priorities in the right order.

A Sentient Being with Rights, according to the Greens. Lunch according to Greenswatch.

Humans are Animals are Humans

3.6.2. Replacing the status of non-human animals as “property” within current legislation to one of “beings” with recognizable legal rights. ^{^}

The sentence itself is self evidently bizarre. “beings” with recognizable legal rights ?

Policy like this is embarrassingly bad.

However there's more - analyse the following sentence closely:

Replacing the status of non-human animals as “property”

'non-human animals' ? Think about it. If they'd left 'non-human' out of the sentence, it would have still made sense ie "Replacing the status of animals.."

So why'd they put it in there ?

Because the Greens believe humans are animals, equal with chickens, cockroaches, grasshoppers and sheep.

The 'human-animals' here at Greenswatch disagree.

Sentient Animals

2.7 Animal husbandry must respect animals' sentient nature, and maximise their quality of life.

We have enough trouble in maximising the quality of life for all humans, let alone making sure a cow leads a happy and fulfilling life.

Imagine a struggling farmer being jailed for not keeping his pigs content in an air-conditioned sty to the Greens specified 18.27 degrees Celsius.

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