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Bill: THWP . Save the mink!
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Hodirak'hi Workers Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2525
Description[?]:
| The case against the Dandratur Mink and Ferret farm, where animal rights activists released 6,000 mink and 500 ferrets last year, is the first of its kind in Pontesi. But all the charges against the farmer, Terence Smith, 73, whose farm trades under the name of TT Smith (Mink) Ltd, were dropped. PTV's Chris Chritton : The mink were in filthy and dilapidated surroundings Spokeswoman Lucy Clark said: "We are obviously pleased that this man has been convicted of appalling acts of cruelty to mink but disappointed that he wasn't banned from keeping mink in the future." Respect for Animals' evidence was passed to the Ministry of Agriculture who made their own inspections. They found that some of the mink were suffering some horrendous injuries - some had tails missing, one was found to have died of blood poisoning - yet none of the injured appeared to have been given any veterinary attention. Oba Nsugbe, prosecuting, said: "Some of the cages had faeces piled up underneath them. Some of the cages were missing nesting boxes and nipple feeders were broken. Lucy Clark: "We are disappointed" "Blocked drains were overflowing with maggots and faeces and on that occasion they did see a number of injured mink." The court heard some of the animals were so badly hurt that bones were protruding from infected wounds, some of which were inflicted by other mink. Some were in such a bad condition that they had to be put down. The company's lawyers explained that there had been attacks on the farm by animal rights activists a few months before the inspection in which several cages were damaged and mink were released. It was claimed that the chaos caused by that incident led to some of the mink being in such a bad condition. The mink are normally separated from family groups - making it less likely that the mink would attack each other - but that order had been destroyed. Joseff PereMP : fur farming is still going on and the Ministry should enforce the highest possible welfare standards. "We are pleased this prosecution has been successful and will not hesitate to take further action where there is any evidence of cruelty." |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:18:36, January 29, 2008 CET | From |  The Hodirak'hi Workers Party | To | Debating the THWP . Save the mink! |
| Message | Please save the mink. It take 40 mink to make 1 coat! On fur farms, animals such as foxes, mink, ferrets, and sables (an animal in the weasel family) spend their entire lives stacked on top of one other in barren cages with nothing beneath their feet but wire mesh. Those in the topmost cages are marginally more fortunate; they do not have feces falling into their food and water from animals imprisoned above. In many cases, multiple animals are forced to share a single, tiny cage. They may have no protection from wind, rain, or snow, save a roof on an “open” shed. Studies have shown that as many as 85 percent of the animals confined in these facilities develop behavioral abnormalities such as rocking, head-bobbing, and self-mutilation due to boredom, anxiety, and the inability to meet their instinctual needs. A mink who, in the wild, would forage and roam for miles, might spend her days frantically pacing her cage, stopping only to bite repeatedly at her own tail. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 138 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 115 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 72 |
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