Animal Welfare
Pritchard is known for his advocacy of animal welfare issues and introduced three animal welfare related private Ten Minute Rule Bills in the period 2006-2009.
- Sale of Endangered Animals on the Internet (Prohibition) Bill - 2006
- Primates As Pets (Prohibition) Bill - 2007
- Common Birds (Protection) Bill - 2009
In June 2011 he successfully moved a motion to ban wild animals in circuses. In the House of Commons he stated that he had been placed under pressure by the Prime Minister to withdraw the motion, first by being offered a job, and then by being threatened.
Pritchard has been nominated for numerous animal welfare awards including the Dodds Charity Champion Award for Animal Welfare.
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Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or welfare:
“He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him day by day, and the divine being established.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You can’t talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.”
—Casey Hayden (b. c. 1940)