Food labels should be overhauled to include information on the treatment of animals, says the country's chief law reform commissioner, David Weisbrot, who believes a push for animal rights could be the next great progressive movement in Australia.
Professor Weisbrot said labelling laws have not kept up with demand for organic and free-range products and could include a "trustmark" logo to show animals had been treated ethically.
"To date, the focus of food standards has been on human health, with no additional consideration of the treatment of animals in the farming and food process," Professor Weisbrot writes in the Australian Law Reform Commission's journal, Reform, whose latest issue is devoted to animal rights.
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