Rejected petition Regulate or ban the breeding of rats and mice for animal food

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Currently there doesn't appear to be any regulations regarding the breeding of rodents for animal (such as snake) food, as a result the equivalent of battery farms are in existence for rats and mice.

This also means that they are killed in a variety of inhumane manners, depending upon the breeder: methods of execution include freezing whilst alive, gas chambers, suffocation in plastic bags, smacking them against walls or pulling their tails to snap their spinal cords.

If this was a human food source, this behaviour would not be tolerated.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

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Date submitted 20 November 2012
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