Tell my donkeys they are movable objects! if you want them to move, eg one is standing on your boot, you want to clean the stable but they want to stay and cuddle, they want to stand and admire the view... just try to get them to move! Seriously though animal charities have been trying to get farm animals and pets the same rights as they have had in England for years, but to no avail. The new rejected manifesto below brings you up to date with whats going on.
"While we recognise that animals are not human beings, their capacity to feel pleasure and pain is something we share with them and for which their rights must be recognised,” says the manifesto
"While we recognise that animals are not human beings, their capacity to feel pleasure and pain is something we share with them and for which their rights must be recognised,” says the manifesto
“Certain codes in France [such as the Rural Code] recognise that they are ‘sentient’, so the fact that they are merely objects in the country’s Civil Code is increasingly contradictory.”
The 30 Millions d’Amis site, which has more than 500,000 signatories calling for a change to the law, calls for the creation of a “third category” other than “persons” and “objects” to give animals a new status.
“Right now there is no difference between an animal and a table,” the organisation says on its website. “Animal welfare is a significant modern social preoccupation. It is time legislators got round to defining a new legal status for them, in line with most other European countries.”
The United Kingdom was the first country in the world to implement laws protecting animals with the 1822 Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle.
The first general animal protection law – the Protection of Animals Act – was introduced in 1911 and the British government has publicly stated that animals are sentient beings, not merely commodities.
But far from being recognised under the country’s Civil Code as “sentient beings”, farm animals and pets in France are merely considered “movable objects”. and look as if they will remain so for some time to come as the government have declined to change the status.
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