[Greens-Media] Commercial roo cull is bad competitor to honest farming

[Elizabeth.Ingham at parliament.vic.gov.au]

Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber is pledging to fight to reverse the 
decision to introduce commercial kangaroo culling to Victoria.

"The Napthine government is giving in to pressure from the National 
Party," said Greg Barber MLC

"This will undermine Victoria's legitimate livestock industry.  Livestock 
farmers go to great lengths to comply with animal welfare, meat quality 
and safety, but this gives them a new competitor who doesn't have to meet 
the same standards." 

"Its a nonsense to say that these are kangaroos that would have been 
killed anyway. Permits are handed out willy nilly, there's close to zero 
supervision and now that there's a quid to be made, everyone will want 
one."

"Don't call it a 'sustainable' industry; no-one can even tell us how many 
kangaroos were killed last year. Permits to kill a certain number are 
issued, but there's no requirement to report back how many were killed."

"We know from other states there will be lax supervision of meat handling 
to prevent contamination and human illness. It's pretty hard to get a 
permit to sell meat from livestock slaughtered in the paddock, but now you 
can shoot a kangaroo, throw it on the back of the truck and later sell it 
for human consumption."

"We will be campaigning to reverse this decision," said Mr Barber

For comment: Greg Barber - 0433 044 771

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Greg Barber
Victorian Greens Leader
Member of the Legislative Council, Northern Metropolitan

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