COLIN BETTLES
09 Mar, 2014 01:00 AM
QUEENSLAND Nationals Senator Ron Boswell has returned fire at comments from Greens rival Lee Rhiannon, in defence of kangaroo harvesting in Australia and its sustainability as a red meat industry.
In a Senate speech on February 12, Senator Rhiannon said two popular myths – that there’s a “super abundance” of kangaroos and the iconic animals are pests – were “so firmly entrenched in the Australian psyche that we do not think to question the science behind shooting kangaroos”.
“These myths are carefully nurtured by the industry via a well-honed communications strategy that has embedded itself into an unquestioning political framework that lobbies overseas politicians, the media, the market and the consumer,” she said.
“Scientific concerns are diminished by industry's advice to government as the work of activists and evidence of the cruelty to and suffering of regularly miss-shot kangaroos is labelled as 'extreme'.
“Meanwhile, the industry commissions its own work to produce explicitly industry-biased materials which are then presented as independent research to overseas governments and an unsuspecting Australian public.”
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