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
Mosts 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.