CHRIS DELFORCE: This is destroying my soul seeing these things. I don't do it because I enjoy it. I do it because what's happening is wrong and it needs to be seen and it needs to be stopped. If that means going to jail, so be it.
CHARLIE COË: ‘The vegan activist behind the ‘Aussie Farms’ protest group has defiantly told the federal government locking up animal rights protesters will do nothing to deter them. Chris Delforce, who has built a map naming and shaming farms, told a senate committee hearing five-year jail sentences for trespass would not ‘change what we do’. Mr Delforce also used the meeting over the proposed law to promote his film Dominion – which uses undercover footage to show scenes inside meat farms. ‘If the law is wrong, if people are being deceived into buying products they wouldn’t buy if they were given the truth, I think that’s necessary,’ he told senators.
Mr Delforce said he didn’t want to see ‘horrific’ slaughterhouses and ‘gas chambers’ used to kill animals, but would continue his mission to make farming transparent. ‘I have been personally traumatised by it for years. This is destroying my soul seeing these things,’ he said. ‘I don’t do it because I enjoy it. I do it because what’s happening there is wrong and it needs to be seen and it needs to be stopped. If that means going to jail, so be it.’ He denied invasions posed biosecurity risks, describing some farms as ‘disease-ridden’ and saying animals could never be slaughtered humanely.’Farmers are sending their animals to death. You don’t do that to people or animals you care about,’ Mr Delforce said.
The director handed copies of the documentary to committee members while telling them to educate themselves about its content… Aussie Farms has recently been branded a ‘despicable attack map for activists’ by Agriculture Minister David Littleproud following a spate of vigilante acts. But when grilled about his attitude towards stronger sentences for farm trespassers, Mr Delforce said such protests would continue regardless. ‘I think it is likely prosecutions will happen,’ he said. ‘But it won’t change what we do – it’s an unfortunate necessity. In five to ten years we’ll see laws criminalising what’s happening in slaughterhouses’. SOURCE…
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