Animal Welfare

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Dominic Dyer: 'David Cameron’s gamble to appoint Owen Paterson as environment secretary to deliver the badger cull has blown up in his face'

Comment: The horrible truth about the badger cull

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Samuel Lawes: 'There will never be a wholly vegan world, even if humanity eschews the consumption of meat products'

Comment: How meat eaters can support animal welfare

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Mimi Bekhechi: 'Ultimately the exploitation of animals for human ends must be stopped'

Comment: Eating animals is like slavery – it has to end now

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Badger cull pilots will take place annually for four years

‘Did it hurt?’ Badger cull to be monitored… by phone

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An American pit bull terrier. The Dangerous Dogs Act focused on breed, not owner responsibility.

The Suez of legislation: Ministers try to patch up the Dangerous Dogs Act

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Mimi Bekhechi: "Animals will never be safe until experimenters admit that all the genetic manipulations and wishful thinking in the world will not turn a mouse into a tiny human being."

Comment: It’s time to end animal experiments for good

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Liz Tyson: 'It has taken six years and has included working groups, public consultations, parliamentary debates and even the threat of judicial review to get to this point.'

Comment: The show must not go on for wild animals in the circus

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Chris Packham’s Wild Justice group dismissed in the High Court again

Leading rural organisations have reacted positively to the High Court’s dismissal of Wild Justice’s ‘speculative’ attempt to judicial review Defra’s most recent burning legislation in England. The attempted judicial review had sought to disrupt the Heather and Grass Burning (England) Regulations 2021 that bans heather burning on our most protected sites with peat of more… Read more »

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Answer NRW’s call for evidence on wild bird licensing says BASC

Improvements to livestock worrying legislation welcome news for gamekeepers, says BASC

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has welcomed the announcement that enclosed gamebirds are to be included within enhanced livestock worrying legislation in England and Wales. Listing enclosed gamebirds and increasing police powers for dealing with incidents of livestock worrying are just two parts of a wider Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill introduced… Read more »

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Tony Wardle: "We live with the pretence that farming and slaughter in the UK is the gold standard and it's only Johnny Foreigner who's cruel to animals".

Comment: The true horror of the horse meat industry

Even now, amid a public outcry over horse meat in Tesco’s burgers, Findus lasagne and other supermarket products, there’s precious little concern about the barbarity of the horse meat industry.

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