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Keep animal welfare standards the responsibility of the government not industry

Submitted on Saturday 26th March 2016

Rejected on Thursday 31st March 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Keep animal welfare standards the responsibility of the government not industry

Petition Details

The government is planning to repeal official guidance on animal welfare standards, starting with a move to put the code on chicken-farming in the hands of the poultry industry.
Industry is about profit, not animal welfare. Please sign this petition to keep regulators separate from those regulated

Additional Information

See The Guardian article "Government planning to repeal animal welfare codes" by Rowena Mason dated 26 March 2016.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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we think the following petition is similar to yours: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125827

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