Animal Rights Legislation Controversy
According to The Independent on 13 November 2010, in his role as Agriculture minister James Paice scrapped improvements to laws on animal welfare made by the previous Labour government, delaying by five years a ban on millions of hens having parts of their beaks sliced off. The ban had been due to come into effect in January 2011. Further improvements scrapped by Mr Paice's department allowed game birds to remain in cages; pigs, sheep and cows in abattoirs to lose protection from abuse; badgers to be culled, and wild animals such as lions and tigers to continue to perform in circuses.
Mr Paice, who part-owns a farm in Cambridgeshire, was behind most of the moves – which infuriated welfare groups, according to the Independent article.
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