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Friday, June 26, 2026

David Farrar: Meet the Greens – Animal Welfare Policy


Policy No 3 is Animal Welfare. Some extracts:
  • Ban cats from roaming outdoors (mandatory catios!)
  • Establish a Parliamentary Commissioner of Animal Justice
  • Limit the number of companion animals an individual can have at once
  • Make it illegal to have just one guinea pig or rabbit
  • Ban horse racing
  • Ban rodeos
  • Taxpayer funded spaying and neutering
Most of the costs here are societal, not economic. But the annual cost of taxpayer funded spaying and neutering would be around $25 million a year.

Banning the horse racing industry would cost around $1.9 billion to the economy and put around 15,000 people out of work. So not bad for one of their smaller policies.

David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dogs should be targeted.
The inherent cruelty and incestual interbreeding have created horrible mutants.
Most of which seem to produce nervous and neurotic animals that usually find reason enough to incessantly bark at a leaf blowing in the wind, passing pedestrians or any number of mundane distractions.
And despite their nitwit owners pampering and obsessing and carrying their little plastic bags like they contain gold nuggets...they still leave shit everywhere.

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't mind not needing to clean cat crap from my yard because owners too lazy to get a litter box. Like in that Jim Carrey movie, I should take a dump in my neighbors yard.

Barend Vlaardingerbroek said...

What's cruel about horse racing? Those horses live the life of Riley. There were some cruel practices yesteryear but those have been banned for aeons.
I remember when Sweden passed a law that forbad having single birds in cages. Fair enough for budgies which are very social critters but put two male canaries in a cage together and you are likely to have only one soon as they will fight and one is likely to die.

Anonymous said...

Taxpayer funded spaying and neutering of the Greens - that sounds wonderful - it would not hurt , honest!

ihcpcoro said...

Replying to anon9.29
Cost would be minimal - very few to do.
Ameni

Anonymous said...

But Anon 9 :29, since spaying is for females and neutering is for males, what on earth would we do with trans gender greens? That would be the latest crisis to consume the mainstream media.

Anonymous said...

Anon 9.29 again, I meant it would not hurt me .... sorry, had to clarify. As for above Anon 2.15 query, we could dub it as "spaytering" and make up a Maori word for that?

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