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Bill: Liberalisation of Animals Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Secular Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2450
Description[?]:
| The Secular Party believes that the rights of our animal brethren are just as worthy of governmental protection as those of our citizenry. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of animals in cosmetics research.
Old value:: The use of animals to test cosmetic products is unregulated.
Current: Animals may not be used for testing cosmetics products.
Proposed: Animals may not be used for testing cosmetics products.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards hunting endangered animals.
Old value:: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Current: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Proposed: The government enforces no regulations.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of endangered animals.
Old value:: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep endangered animals; all other forms of keeping or trading in endangered animals are forbidden.
Current: Keeping endangered animals, or trading therein, is forbidden.
Proposed: Everyone may keep endangered animals, without any restrictions whatsoever.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of exotic animals.
Old value:: Everyone may keep exotic animals, but the trade in exotic animals is regulated by the government.
Current: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep exotic animals.
Proposed: Everyone may keep exotic animals, the trade in exotic animals is unregulated.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of wild animals as pets.
Old value:: Wild animals may be kept as pets; the owners of dangerous wild animals must take the necessary measures to ensure they can't escape.
Current: The government maintains a list of dangerous wild animals which may not be kept as pets; other wild animals may be kept as pets.
Proposed: All wild animals may be kept as pets, without any restrictions or precautions whatsoever.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:35:13, September 02, 2007 CET | From | Society For A Free And Safe Lourenne | To | Debating the Liberalisation of Animals Act |
| Message | Animals are not people. Their only reasons to exist on this planet are to feed us, entertain us with knife fights, maul our enemies, and test our various things that need to be tested. They deserve no rights whatsoever. |
| Date | 22:09:57, September 02, 2007 CET | From | Monarchism Démocratique et Fédéral | To | Debating the Liberalisation of Animals Act |
| Message | This bill allows the hunting, killing, or capturing of endangered animals, and eliminates restrictions on keeping dangerous animals at bay. Not that we would support it anyway, but this bill doesn't even help animals at all, except for excluding them from cosmetics testing. |
| Date | 00:18:04, September 03, 2007 CET | From | Society For A Free And Safe Lourenne | To | Debating the Liberalisation of Animals Act |
| Message | And that is too much for our party to accept. |
| Date | 13:23:50, September 03, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Humanist Party | To | Debating the Liberalisation of Animals Act |
| Message | Article 2 is the only one which offers any protection to animals at all. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 30 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 70 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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