The demonising of feral animals is driven by government and the commercial interests they serve. The great fear in industry is that feral animals may be a vector for an exotic disease and this disease might kill their livestock. In addition, there are opposing forces within the industry which see feral animals as a lucrative resource - Pigs, Cats, Goats, Horses, Rabbits, Buffalo, Crocodiles and Foxes are all farmed or taken from the wild. Caught between the two forces, feral animals have little chance.

But there is yet a further layer to the duplicity. The current up-front justification for slaughtering millions of feral animals, is that they threaten native wildlife. In fact the biggest threat to native wildlife is HUMAN - not only have we destroyed and taken over the animals¼ bushland, poisoned their water, chopped down their trees, made a sewer of their ocean, caused holes in their protective ozone layer and generated the forces of Greenhouse, we are also directly capturing and breeding or killing them for profit. Each year, up to 6 million kangaroos, are legally killed and sold for pet food and shoe leather, plus two and a half thousand Brushtail possums, 300 thousand Short-tailed Sheerwaters, three thousand Crocodiles and seventy thousand Emus. Kangaroo, Emu and Possum meat are sold as gourmet dishes in Sydney restaurants and exported overseas.

None of this was done by stealth, to avoid Government crackdown. The Government itself is sponsoring this exploitation.