The Independent ran a front-page story on Saturday, about something else the ConDem Coalition are up to. Understandably, welfare reform and the massive changes to the benefits system have thousands and thousands up in arms because so many of us can foresee a not-too-distant future in which the homeless charities are over-stretched (and entirely staffed by enforced volunteers, probably).However, this is not all that Cameron, Clegg, et al. are attempting to force upon us.
Animal welfare reforms, due to come into effect in mere weeks, have been scrapped. The Minister of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Jim Paice, also just happens to have a vested interest in keeping things the way they are; he part-owns a farm in Cambridgeshire.
Perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised that the Coalition put the interests of agri-business before the welfare of animals; when you only answer to bottom-line profit, everything else pales into insignificance. I can't help but wonder how long until meat production industry here in the UK becomes the same of that in the United States, especially as UK Health Policy has apparently been turned over to fast food companies.
Keep December 4th clear if you can!
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