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New Vic planning laws & intensive animal ag

emma Lisa Ryan Sarah Davison 8 October 2017 3


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As the world is waking up to the cruelty and destructive consequences of industrial animal agriculture, do the proposed Victorian planning laws give the green light for more of it? And will they make it harder for us to oppose such facilities ‘in our own backyards’?  We speak with Sarah Davison from Planning for Animals about this and Lisa Ryan from Say No to Blantyre Pig Farms in Harden shares the activism nuts and bolts of the campaign that stopped a large intensive piggery from being built in NSW.Photo courtesy of Aussie Farms http://www.aussiepigs.com/piggeriesTo object to the proposed planning laws in Victoria: https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/policy-and-strategy/planning-reform/sust…

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