Animal welfare protesters rally in front of a live export ship in Fremantle harbour, June last year.
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Advocacy groups play a crucial and neglected role in revealing systemic animal mistreatment. We need to make their actions unnecessary by with better transparency in the industries.
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We enjoy and appreciate animals and are disturbed by violence against them. But we also perpetrate this violence, and that needs to change.
Activists may have to be more careful about distributing evidence of animal cruelty online to encourage people to take action against the meat industry.
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The new legislation will give harsher punishment to people who incite others to trespass on farms.