In reply to the comment about animal cruelty, I think animal welfare would be much improved if workers had control over the means of production at meatworks, some of the shockingly bad slaughtering done there is the result of sped-up production lines as the bosses try to extract even more profit from the labour of workers, who suffer as do the animals.

I realise that advocating killing animals in a more humane way will be seen as an extremely moderate position to people involved in the animal rights movement, but as long as people are eating meat slaughtering animals is necessary,

and whether people eat meat or not isn't the concern of the Workers Party, no political party should attempt to legislate peoples dietary habits.

I make these comments as a vegetarian, albeit one who once took a temp-job as a meat packer to make ends meet.