The Australian Capital Territory Government is standing up for animals, becoming the first state to ban three of the cruellest factory farming practices ever inflicted on animals. The last battery egg facility has shut down and no pigs are currently factory farmed there. The Australian Capital Territory government has made the most of this opportunity to ensure factory farming cruelty is gone for good. A bill was passed to ban Pig Crates, Battery cages and Debeaking, this is a major blow to factory farming and a win for animals in NT.
My focus will be on the farmers and their reactions to these new bans and what they plan to do about it. I will also be focussing on the process of the battery cages, pig crates and Debeaking and the advantages and disadvantages of using these practices. I will show the farmers side of things, why they continue to use these practices and how it affects the farmers and also the animals. I will also focus on the consumers of the food that the farmers are providing and the prices of these products.
When we watch the television and we see animal cruelty on the news and the way that Farming factories are treating their animals, we only see one side of the story and we don’t see why the farmers are doing this to their animals. This documentary will reveal the reasons for which the farmers carry out these practices, such as not being able to afford staff to herd the animals in and out of their confines during the day. The famers may not be able to afford the fencing and land the animals need to graze, so they turn to the cheaper way of keeping the animals in small confines. The main conflict in the documentary is the animal activists taking charge and putting pressure on the farmers when they cannot change what they are doing for a reason, most of the farmers would change what they are doing if they had the money too. Ultimately the audience is positioned to see both sides of the story.
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