Aust Farmers Say Rspca Vic Has Swung To The Left

[Steve]

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201109/s3324311.htm

The Victorian Farmers Federation is encouraging farmers to join the RSPCA and influence its stance on issues like live animal exports.

It's accused the animal welfare body of shifting to a left-wing agenda.

The head of the VFF livestock group, Chris Nixon, says the RSPCA is too heavily influenced by radical animal liberation groups.

"The RSPCA has moved their agenda further to the left, they've become more strident in their views about banning live exports and other farm practices that we do," he said.

"We believe that by joining the organisation, we can bring the RSPCA back in the middle ground, so we can get a reasonable debate about these issues, not a far left wing agenda that's been driven by Animals Australia and PETA and groups like those."

But the Victorian president of the RSPCA, Dr Hugh Wirth, rejects Mr Nixon's message, saying the organisation has no political bias.

"It's obvious Mr Nixon knows very little about the RSPCA and the way it works. You've only got to look at the membership, you've only got to look at people on the board of management to see that his claims are completely wrong."

You only have to look at their website re dogs to see his claims just may be right!

[WreckitWhippet]

They have the right idea, join them in large numbers and beat them from the inside. The FFA might just have the numbers and the brains to do it.

[toy*dog]

thats ridiculous they are running with the animal libs they said so on the raids that they do, they make no secret of it.