PETA running amok in the UK

[Comrade]

This is not a joke!

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/n...1.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/07/11/ixportal.html

Gardeners critical over slug protection laws
By Fiona Govan
(Filed: 11/07/2004)

A new animal welfare law that will offer slugs and snails the same protection as cats and dogs was condemned by gardeners yesterday.

Legislation to be announced by the Government this week will give courts the power to impose fines of up to £20,000 and 12 months in jail on people found guilty of mistreating animals. Anyone under the age of 16 will be banned from owning a pet and goldfish will no longer be allowed to be given as prizes at fairgrounds.

And I suppose sport fishing is entirely out of the question!

The legislation could lead to gardeners being fined for killing insects, worms, caterpillars, slugs and snails, if scientific evidence proves they have suffered pain and distress. Ministers say the law, which updates existing legislation, is needed to protect animals from abuse. Horticulturalists rejected the idea that they could be guilty of cruelty.

The only question is whether or not killing a mosquito feeding off your blood is inhumane or cruel to the poor insect. Does slapping a bloodsucker in front of a cop get you twelve months in the slammer? No matter how ridiculous this seems, the letter of the law seems to imply that possibility.

UK's version of PETA certainly has ran amok.

 

[musicman]

What makes your desire not to be bitten any more important than a mosquito's right to live? A typical human conceit.