Issue: A Deafening Cattle Cry
Draft 4 (complete redraft)
Must not have: Vegetarianism, No Dissent, Autarky
Premise:
A leaked video filmed on a @@DEMONYM@@ livestock carrier bound for Tasmania has caused outrage to erupt over the live animal export industry. The footage, which has now gone globally viral, depicts the cattle on-board suffering extreme distress in cramped, contaminated conditions and excessive heat, with multiple carcasses seen sprawled across the floor. Pressure is mounting, and with an increasing number of protestors encircling your government building, your most trusted Ministers have stormed your office with ideas.
Option 1: “We’re an international embarrassment!” laments your Minister for Foreign Affairs, looking visibly distraught. “You need to respond quickly with stricter live export welfare standards and harsher penalties for overcrowding. If not for the cows, then at least for the good standing of @@NATION@@!”
Effect: the nation has developed an international reputation for its high-quality beef exports.
Option 2: “More half-measures?” scoffs your Minister for the Environment, emerging from behind a pot plant. “Take the lead and install a ban on all live exports! Forcing local producers to sell to only local consumers won’t only be beneficial for our livestock; by cutting out all of that needless transportation we’ll drastically lower our carbon footprint too.”
Effect: “Protectionism Protects the Planet” is @@LEADER@@’s latest slogan.
Option 3: “Who ‘members good old fashioned cattle drives?” muses a cowboy mounted on a malnourished horse in the corner of your office, who you’ve somehow not noticed until now. “My family have been runnin’ drives since before my granddaddy was born. Sure it’s a slow way to do it, but I can make sure them cows get to where they need to be. Uh, as long as there’s no water.”
Effect: confused tourists and hungry locals alike flock to see the nation’s famous cattle drives.
Option 4: “Don’t listen to these maniacs,” whispers your Minister for Trade. “Everybody knows that meat tastes better when the cows are cramped and stressed. How about you ease up on a bit of the bureaucracy, and then we can shove some more of ‘em into the boat next time?”
Effect: @@DEMONYM@@ beef has a reputation for being tough and tasteless.
Option 5: The piercing squeal of megaphone feedback ruptures through your office window. “@@LEADER@@!” nervously starts the protestor, “Our collective hearts wept at the sight of those poor creatures suffering. We beg you to outlaw the killing of animals for food across @@NATION@@! Only then will your conscience be clear!"
Effect: the entire meat industry has been outlawed.
Adds: Vegetarianism
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