Posted on 08/29/2021 3:41:46 AM PDT by blueplum
Ian Botham is leading a formidable alliance of opponents to new laws recognising that animals have feelings, with the former cricketer joining forces with Tory donors and farming leaders to lobby against the proposed legislation.
The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill would enshrine in law the principle that animals are sentient and would create an animal sentience committee to scrutinise whether Ministers had paid due regard to their policies' 'adverse effect on the welfare of animals'.
But Lord Botham, a country sports enthusiast who was ennobled by Boris Johnson last year as a crossbench peer, has described it as 'bizarre' that the Government wants to recognise in law that 'a fish has feelings', saying: 'I really do struggle to have a soft spot for a prawn.'
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PETA is ‘angling’ for the same treatment here. With the under-education of our youth, too many think that groceries appear in stores by ‘magic’! Add the on-going arguments concerning the effects of animal husbandry on the climate and you have a near-religious movement in progress! Kind of makes me glad I am the age that I am now!
A fisherman never feels sorry for the bait.
These same people deny children in the womb can feel pain.
I got my daughter (years ago) some sort of sealed globe filled with water and 4 to 5 sea shrimp. It was pretty cool to watch (they are perhaps 1/8 inch long).
In searching where to buy them there were plenty of articles on how inhumane it was to trap sea shrimp and stick them in a globe.
I told my daughter “Well, maybe. But hey - they could still be out in the ocean where tomorrow they would be sucked up by a blue whale or something!”
Humans and animals eat animals. Animals would gladly eat humans. They want us to stop eating animals. After that, they will want us to stop eating plants because “plants have feelings.”
‘I really do struggle to have a soft spot for a prawn.’
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I have a soft spot for prawns fried in a light tempura batter.
Does anyone hear the cries of carrots when they are viciously pulled from the ground and separated from their peers? The skin will sometimes be peeled from their dainty little body and if that isn’t enough, they are cut into slices. What has this vegetable done to anyone to deserve dismemberment in this fashion? Who speaks for the carrots?
Any vet at an African game park will tell you that lions were meant to be carnivores...gazelles,wildebeest,warthogs,cape buffalo,etc
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