Submitted on Tuesday 29th March 2016
Rejected on Thursday 31st March 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop animal welfare codes being written and controlled by the agri-industry
We call on the government to keep codes for farmed animal welfare as statutory and not replace them with industry-led guidance, as replacing them will lower animal welfare and increase suffering; raise the risk of zoonotic diseases; and increase drug use and antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria.
Furthermore, we call on the government to more energetically police and reinforce the existing codes, something it has singularly failed to do as two recent investigations by Viva! have shown. In both cases the farms involved carried industry approval - Red Tractor for pigs and British Lion mark for eggs. Both revealed unacceptable suffering and indicate what we can increasingly expect if the livestock industry regulates itself.
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