Submitted on Thursday 5th November 2020
Rejected on Monday 23rd November 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Change of Production Farming Regulations to protect humans and animals.
Change production farm regulations to reduce the risk of Pandemics and aid the protection of animal welfare. Animals in many production farms are forced to exist in an area 1m squared or less. It should become law that animals have to have at least 3m squared per animal in production environments.
Coronavirus originated in a wet market in Wuhan, and has ripped through mink farms in the Netherlands which have since been banned (Enserink, M. (2020). If humans have to social distance to prevent coronavirus animals needs to as well.
References
• Real-time tentative assessment of the epidemiological characteristics of novel coronavirus infections in Wuhan, China (Wu et al, 2020, (260 citations)).
• Coronavirus rips through Dutch mink farms, triggering culls (Enserink, M. (2020).)
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand you want a change to farming regulations, however it's not clear which animals you want this to apply to, nor in which specific settings.
We also can't accept petitions containing unproven statements or inferences, such as the inference that coronavirus was first transmitted from animals to humans in a Wuhan wet market, which has not been proven. See:
- www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/28/how-did-the-coronavirus-start-where-did-it-come-from-how-did-it-spread-humans-was-it-really-bats-pangolins-wuhan-animal-market
- www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/eight-key-questions-experts-tracing-origins-coronavirus-pandemic/
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7264924/.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/330298
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/559837.
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