This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Extend laws that protect domestic animals from abuse; to non-domestic animals.
Our good and honourable Governement have felt it fitting to vote against the inclusion of EU laws which recognise animals as sentient beings with a sophisticated central nervous system capable of experiencing sensation and emotion.
Leaving non-domestic animals in a perilously vulnerable position.
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The ruling made in Nov 2017 fails to recognise the inconvenient truth that all mammals can experience pain and emotion. Failure to lawfully include agricultural animals means they are not truly protected from increasingly perverse abuse.
Together let’s ammend their incompetence.
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We understand that you would like non-domestic animals to have new protections against abuse, but we're not sure exactly what protections you would like to be extended to them.
This research note sets out the issues relating to the recognition of animal sentience in Article 13 of the Lisbon Treaty and the debate as to whether it should have been recognised in the EU (Withdrawal) Act:
http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8155/CBP-8155.pdf
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