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Originally Posted by smudgie
Ah right.
Just that the EU was mentioned in the post.
I can actually see where Livia is coming from, in as much as we do have decent animal welfare here, better than some EU countries.
I know people bring up the foxhunting, but I really can't see a bill to overturn it ever getting through parliament.
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Why not, with the DUP deal they can force anything through they got this through didn't they. It will happen.
It was mentioned but it was not the topic offered for discussion, we had decent animal welfare as it was fought hard for as are most rights and protections.
This vote is the first step in removing those protections, if it's deemed that animals don't have the capacity to feel pain or have emotions why do they need rights?.. they become nothing but a commodity.
Even with the laws we had they were not enforced adequately now there will be no duty to.
'Animals in labs across Northern Ireland suffered 22,214 experiments in 2016 - even with law recognising their ability to feel pain.
And shockingly there was a 37% rise in the number of cats used in trials, 56% of which were for basic research.
Now a DUP-backed Tory vote to remove EU legislation recognising ‘animal sentience’ has put the future of animal welfare across the UK at risk.
The highly-criticised “backward step” was decided by a vote of 313 to 295 at Westminster, even though it was the UK that convinced the EU to recognise animals as ‘sentient beings’ who feel pain, fear and hunger in 1997.
“It is not good enough for the government to say that animal sentience is covered by the UK Animal Welfare Act – the fact is, it isn’t,” said chief executive of Cruelty Free International, Michelle Thew.
“It certainly takes no account of the pain and suffering felt by animals in laboratories across the country.
“Statistics from Northern Ireland this week show that hugely controversial animal experiments are sadly far from being significantly reduced.”
Universities, charities and commercial operations were responsible for the tests, almost half of which caused moderate to severe suffering to animals (4% severe and 43% moderate).'
If this is the level of 'protection' offered now what will it be now it's been passed that animals don't suffer.... will things for them get better, or worse?
http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/22...thern-13932771