By Ayesha Smart, Barrister, 33 Bedford Row
“High standards of animal welfare are one of the hallmarks of a civilised society”
This is something that the Conservatives have argued since their manifesto in 2019, and subsequently by their Secretaries of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, but what actually has been achieved? Particularly post-Brexit?
Now, alarmingly to animal lovers and animal welfare activists alike, after the UK left the European Union on the 1st January 2021, animal sentience was the only piece of EU legislation that was not transposed.
Further, Brexit put animal welfare at risk in a number of ways which the RSPCA helpfully outlined:
80 percent of current animal welfare legislation comes from EU law (with over 40 animal welfare laws)
EU animal welfare laws...
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