Animal welfare, Politics & law Andrew Gough Animal welfare, Politics & law Andrew Gough

Spain set to ban zoos and pet shops with its first ‘animal rights bill’, but bullfighting still protected?

Spain has made great strides in recognising the rights of animals, firstly by changing the legal status of cats and dogs from objects to sentient, living beings, and now, a proposed ‘animal rights’ bill that will outlaw zoos and pet shops and bring in tougher prison sentences for animal abusers. Despite all this, bullfighting, inexplicably, remains unchecked.

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Farming, Politics & law, Grassroots Claire Hamlett Farming, Politics & law, Grassroots Claire Hamlett

Judge refuses factory farming review, but the SCRAP campaign's fight isn't over

NEWS: On Tuesday, the Scrap Factory Farming campaign (SFF) went to court to ask a judge to grant a judicial review into the government’s failure to consider evidence that keeping animals in intensive farming conditions is a serious risk for the emergence of new zoonotic diseases and antibiotic resistance. Today, the judge refused to grant the review. SFF plans to appeal the decision.

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Animal welfare, Politics & law Andrew Gough Animal welfare, Politics & law Andrew Gough

The RSPB wanted to electrocute badgers using “honey, syrup, peanut butter or treacle”?!

BLOG: In case you missed it, the RSPB - one of Britain’s foremost animal protection charities - advised its members to lure badgers to electric fences using sweet treats. The reaction from other groups was rightly damning, but once again it demonstrates the insidious nature of speciesism amongst our most hallowed animal-loving organisations.

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