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This is an issue that a lot of people do care about and so would like to see tougher laws and stricter sentencing with regards to animal cruelty, across the board. The only parties in the past that seemed to want to deal with this are the Greens and Labour, who were in power when the Animal Welfare Act was brought in, back in 2006. It would be interesting to see, which parties today, if any, are closest to implementing stronger penalties if elected.
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Ultimately as so much of our food is imported from Europe, EU wide animal welfare laws need to be implemented. The EU does move incredibly slowly on this, I believe battery hens are now banned though.
http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/ar.html
I don't think some of the policies go far enough, but as far as I know, the Greens are the only parties that have policies on humane slaughter.
I agree. When are Cameron, Paterson & Truss going to be prosecuted for the despicable badger cull?
Where do you think it needs strengthening - we had Animal Cruelty legislation in this country before we had Child Protection.
Because the sort of person who is cruel to animals is likely to be cruel to children
Nazi Germany had strict animal welfare laws.
Where DOESN'T it need strengthening?
I think it has far greater support than parties think, and it's only because most Tories would chew on a wriggling sparrow that it gets no consideration.
One of the biggest scandals currently is rabbit farming in the EU, in which they are kept in utterly appalling conditions. There are no regulations whatsoever - unlike in chicken factories - so they suffer terribly. Don't go looking if you are easily upset.
This needs EU action NOW, and the current application for a rabbit farm (first one) in the UK needs to be turned down until regulations are in force.
I dunno about that - as a Conservative voter I would have no problems with banning Factory rearing of Chickens. This is why I asked the question as Historically we have created animal cruelty legislation before we legislated against child cruelty.
You confirm what I say - if they toughened up on animal welfare it would be a vote winner, from Tories as well as everyone else.
I accept our regulations are stricter than most already, which only goes to show how terrible they are elsewhere. Animal welfare has always been considered as a "leftwing" issue (hunting ban, for example) and I think the Tories are missing a trick.
Too many like to go out in the Land Rover at the weekends.
I hate the idea of farm animals being mistreated, but I hate cats, dogs and foxes even more.
Farm animals to hunt cats, dogs and foxes.
I am against the mistreatment of animals but governments and the people should put the mistreatment of children above all else.
Only when we have consideration for each other will animals be safe.
But Nazi Germany had very good animal welfare laws, and look what they did to each other.
I always thought it a bit cynical of New Labour to pass the Civil Contingencies Act the same week that they passed the Fox Hunting Bill - of course the former is lacking safeguards as well - but of course the press were more concerned with the Foxes
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What an odd statement.
Are you implying that because the Nazis passed some animal welfare measures then any other society that passes similar (or better) laws are somehow encouraged to become fascistic?
People seemed to be implying if we have laws to protect animals, children would be protected.
I am saying Nazi Germany had good laws to protect animals and they still carried out the things they did.
Nothing odd about it at all, its often used as an example for animal protection laws.
You have misread it completely.
I am not speaking for "people" but myself.
Strict animal welfare laws should be in existence because it is the right, moral thing to do.
Animals are innocents, and as such they must be protected from the actions of non-innocents - man.
We need to stop eating them first.
Thanks for posting that. This is what I could find with regards to Labour election pledges.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31513637
Man is an animal. Are you saying that all animals, other than man, are innocents? Does that include other animals which, like man, kill and eat other animals?
Of course.
Man knows that he knows.
Animals know.
You cannot ascribe human morality of any sort to any other creatures, any more than you can ascribe a human moral demand on new-born babes.
If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
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