Rejected petition Reconsider the scientifically incorrect decision that animals don’t feel pain.

It is with great sadness and frustration that I learn of the very newly reported decision by MP’s to discard the concept that animals as having the ability to feel fear and pain. It is entirely incorrect flying in the face of thousands of documented papers and must be reconsidered.

More details

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159106001110

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=animal+sentience+scholarly&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiekOHGos7XAhXH2RoKHcglBXYQgQMIIzAA

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/205348

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 20 November 2017
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.