The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has submitted a response to the Victorian Government’s Planning for Sustainable Animal Industries Draft Planning Provisions. View the submission here. The Victorian Government’s current proposals will do serious damage to the regenerative and small-scale livestock farmers of Victoria. See AFSA’s media release regarding the proposed changes here. AFSA’s Response to Planning for […]
‘The Regulation Diaries (7): Planning for Industrial Intensive Animal Agriculture’ by Tammi Jonas
This blog post was originally posted on AFSA President Tammi Jonas’ personal blog, Tammi Jonas: Food Ethics, as part of ‘The Regulation Diaries’ series. In October 2015, I visited Jo Stritch of Happy Valley Free Range, Livestock Farmer of the Year in 2014. Jo had just been ordered to remove all her pigs from her […]
CALL TO ACTION – Secure the future of free-range farming!
Why should small-scale pastured pork and poultry farms be treated like intensive sheds while cattle feedlots of 1000 cattle do not require a permit? The Victorian Government’s proposed reforms to planning controls for animal industries could mean the collapse of pastured pigs and poultry farms in Victoria. We have until 14 November 2017 to be […]
“Victoria’s War on Sustainable Agriculture” – Blogpost by Ant Wilson
Ant Wilson wrote this blogpost about the hostile planning and regulation environment Victorian farmers are dealing with at the moment. Ant is a future farmer who has spent the past year volunteering on a number of different small farms to learn the ropes, with great hope of getting into farming himself. Small scale pastured pig […]
President Tammi Jonas rejects changes to the proposed new planning provisions by the Victorian Government on ABC’s Country Hour
Hear AFSA interim president Tammi Jonas talk about the inappropriateness of the proposed new planning provisions from the Victorian Government’s work on Planning for Sustainable Animal Industries. Listen to the interview here (Interview starts at 31:20)
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