Submitted on Tuesday 21st November 2017
Rejected on Friday 24th November 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Reinstate the law that regards animals as sentient beings
Animal sentience was written into the EU law in 1997, but subsequent to Brexit the UK parliament decided that animals can no longer 'feel pain for emotions', in a vote of 295 to 313.
There has long been controversy over the sentience of animals, of which humans are the most superior species of all, right?
Wrong.
Increasingly anthropocentric views have placed humans atop the ecological hierarchy, based on the false belief that our cognition is 'more evolved' than other organisms. If we condone the abolishment of the animal sentience law, we are further divorcing ourselves from nature.
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