Submitted by Martin Michael Osborne on Sunday 3rd November 2024
Published on Thursday 21st November 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Wednesday 21st May 2025
Current Signatures: 16,385
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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animal welfare ~ Animals ~ BANNED ~ Barbaric ~ case ~ Convention ~ Culture ~ ECHR ~ environment ~ EU ~ European court ~ european court of human rights ~ Europeans ~ Human Rights ~ Individuals ~ Landmark ~ Prior ~ Ritual ~ society ~ Stunning ~ The ECHR ~ UK
Ban non-stun slaughter in the UK
In modern society, we believe more consideration needs to be given to animal welfare and how livestock is treated and culled.
We believe non-stun slaughter is barbaric and doesn't fit in with our culture and modern-day values and should be banned, as some EU nations have done.
In a landmark case, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a ban on the ritual slaughter of animals without prior stunning does not violate the ECHR.
The Court considered that the protection of public morals, to which Article 9 of the Convention referred was not indifferent to the living environment of individuals covered by its protection and including animals.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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