Petition Make branding or freeze branding of animals a criminal offence in the UK

Many horses and cattle in the UK are branded using heated iron or frozen metal (freeze branding). This is cruel, causing severe pain and is unnecessary when micro-chipping is cheap and quick. It could even be made illegal without new legislation by enforcing existing anti-cruelty laws.

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https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/horses/health/identification
https://www.ciwf.org.uk/farm-animals/cows/dairy-cows/

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

39 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 39 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 7 August 2018
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