Animal Rights after the Brexit Repeal Bill

Yes, a good analogy, if I say so myself [ grin]

We probably forced Europe to have better animal welfare in the first place, it’s better here than almost anywhere on the planet.
Bull fighting, throwing animals off Towers, overloading donkeys, veal rearing, foix gras and the force feeding that goes into it etc.

Stop spreading dung?

Oh give it up durhamjen this animal welfare fake news is just a pile of dung.....stop spreading it.

infacts.org/gove-makes-dogs-dinner-animal-suffering-vote/

Worth reading if you want to see the difference between what is law and what is not, and whose responsibility it is.

voxpoliticalonline.com/2017/11/24/gove-panned-by-the-public-after-social-media-slur/

Have you forgotten that Gove stood in front of the biggest lie of the lot, a red bus promising lots of money for the NHS?

Jalima Sadly no, we didn't get a mention on Newsnight. Perhaps we should be more extreme in our discussions next time, our opinions must have been too balanced to be newsworthy.

Nigglynellie I couldn't agree more.

nigglynellie Well said.

Looks like this is the topic of Newsnight this evening.
Did they mention us? Stars of the small screen?

"Your Opinion Matters"

The RSPCA does cover Farm Animals under a different scheme called, I think, Farm Animals Assured.

Animal welfare standards in the UK are infinitely higher than a lot of European countries. The standard of care and treatment in some actually make your hair stand on end, from Foi Gras in France to bull fighting, obscene so called festivals in Spain, and treatment of animals in some Eastern European countries that is SO barbaric that its unprintable making a complete mockery of any EU protection legislation. I think our own standards will be more than adequate compared to European ones!

Listening to Mr Gove on Radio Four at the moment, he's making sense.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2017/nov/23/steve-bell-conservatives-animal-rights-cartoon

Sorry, Primrose

Yes, have just seen that Petra

Looks like this is the topic of Newsnight this evening. Perhaps they're stalking our forum now!

The Daily Fail and The Scum wouldn't have a front page if they had to print the truth

I do mean exactly things like the Queen supporting Brexit. Plenty of other papers would struggle too, as would all the clickbait political blogs.

Very true Jalima and interesting that those who didn’t vote to leave the EU are keen to attribute any old rubbish and false news to ‘Brexit nighmare scenario’ type of thing.

Years ago it was thought that many European countries had
Awful farming practices and animal welfare in general.
Now, it seems some even think the UK are the bad guys in this respect, without knowing the first thing about it.

We will be well out of the EU.

'it's a journalist's job to find out the truth, not make stuff up! 'you mean, like the Queen supporting brexit etc The Daily Fail and The Scum wouldn't have a front page if they had to print the truth

I can only think that somehow this will allow the U.K. to drop its animal welfare regulations after Brexit.
Why? We will probably revert to the regulations we have always had which are higher than EU standards.
The standards of animal welfare in some EU countries is appalling.

Sorry, my 'pooter jumps rather and I missed Primroses post.

I understand that we already have laws as good as if not more stringent than the EU ones and it would confuse things when we're no longer ruled by the European Court of Justice.

Well storm in a teacup or not, Gove has announced a strengthening of current laws so the whole issue being aired could clearly make a difference. Also the Government should not be caught on the back foot like this- surely they should have been proactive with the amendment rather than allowing a media storm to develop and then react.

Primrose you aren’t being serious are you about what journalists should do - report factually, not twist stuff, find out the truth, not make stuff up - if only!