So long as animals are still skinned for frivolous fashion accessories, tormented in the name of sport, or caged in laboratories or on farms, we must keep protesting.
PETA UK: While change for animals never comes quickly enough, society is evolving and waking up to the idea that animals are not things but living, feeling beings like us. As a result, we’ve seen legislation banning fox hunting and wild-animal circuses, hundreds of fashion labels have dropped fur and angora, and thousands of companies have committed to never testing their cosmetic products on animals… How have we seen this remarkable shift towards animal rights? Well, like most social progress, it didn’t come about by quietly calling for change but by bold public displays and protests…
[The UK’s “Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill” enables the police to impose conditions such as start and finish times on static protests. It gives the home secretary powers to create laws, without parliamentary approval, to define “serious disruption” to communities and organizations, which police can then rely on to impose conditions on protests. If passed, the legislation will have the effect of curtailing protests near to parliament through provisions that state access for vehicles must not be obstructed]…
Advocates for Animals – the UK’s first animal protection law firm – and a coalition of over 30 animal organisations, including PETA, have fired off a letter to policymakers urging them to vote against the current version of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021, which seeks to restrict the rights of protesters. You can read the letter here. The controversial bill was introduced in the House of Commons in March and has passed its first and second reading – but there’s still time to stop it in its tracks.
Protests are one of the most effective tools animal advocacy groups use to inform the public directly about animal mistreatment and injustice. But the proposed bill would allow law enforcement to impose stringent restrictions upon protests, such as the length and size of demonstrations, and even to ban them altogether if they’re deemed to have a “relevant” noise impact on people nearby – essentially an inherent characteristic of a protest… And so long as animals are still skinned for frivolous fashion accessories, tormented in the name of “sport”, or caged in laboratories or on farms, we must keep protesting. Getting animal issues into the public eye is the only way we can stop abuse. SOURCE…
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