Keep Victorian pork on your fork

I WRITE to seek the support of your readership to save the Victorian pork industry.

As many of your readers will be aware, the native timber industry recently fell victim to Labor’s capitulation to inner-city green groups.

Duck hunting now faces a similar fate after a Labor-led inquiry into the continuation of the legal recreational activity resulted in unscientific biased recommendations that are clearly motivated by a desire to appease ideological inner-city animal extremists.

I now hold grave concerns that Premier Jacinta Allan has set her sights on Victoria’s pork industry through the Labor, Animal Justice Party and Greens-led Inquiry into Pig Welfare in Victoria.

The Inquiry is a sham and an insult to an industry that already has the support of independent, audited quality assurance programs. 

This well-monitored sector contributes $488 million to the Victorian economy and supports almost 2700 full-time jobs and I, along with my colleagues in The Nationals are urging Gippslanders to help save this important industry by completing an online submission at saveourbacon.com.au.

With the native timber industry history and recreational duck hunting under threat – please do your part to save our pork industry from the same fate and keep Victorian pork on your fork.

Danny O’Brien MP, The Nationals Member for Gippsland South