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Bill: Animal Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hutori Socialists
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: August 4144
Description[?]:
This Act recognises that the domestication of exotic animals is negative because they are necessary to their respective ecosystems, and it is truly detrimental to their welfare. This pure violation of animal rights needs to cease, and all exotic animals must be released into their real habitat. By restricting these exotic animals to confined places in an attempt to domesticate them, we violate their right to freedom. End this barbaric and inhumane practice now. |
Proposals
Article 1
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: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep exotic animals.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 06:19:06, December 31, 2016 CET | From | Hutori Socialists | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Act |
Message | This Act recognises that the domestication of exotic animals is negative because they are necessary to their respective ecosystems, and it is truly detrimental to their welfare. This pure violation of animal rights needs to cease, and all exotic animals must be released into their real habitat. By restricting these exotic animals to confined places in an attempt to domesticate them, we violate their right to freedom. End this barbaric and inhumane practice now. |
Date | 08:59:24, December 31, 2016 CET | From | The Nationalist Republican Party | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Act |
Message | While The Nationalist Republican Party does not consider animal rights an vital part of it's agenda, we will favor and support this bill on the basis that this act prevents an possibly uninformed population from holding exotic animals, and that the proper institutions will manage the unfortunate decline in exotic animals and other threatened species. -Anderson Malkin |
Date | 12:31:06, December 31, 2016 CET | From | Alternative party | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Act |
Message | Exotic animals are to rare and in some cars dangerous to be kept as domestic pets because they aren't tame. Leave a lion alone with a child and the lion will slaughter the child without thinking because animals don't think the same way as domesticated pets. It is most important that we go about removing exotic animals from their sometimes abusive owners and put them in the caring hands of the zoo. But can I ask the socialists if pythons and parrots will be included in the ban? |
Date | 14:40:40, December 31, 2016 CET | From | Hutori Socialists | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Act |
Message | All animal species considered to be 'exotic' by international standards will be banned from domestication. While I assume most, if not all, pythons will be classified as an 'exotic species', there may be some types of parrots that may not fall into this category. |
Date | 02:51:25, January 01, 2017 CET | From | Alternative party | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Act |
Message | Ok, we can see that this makes sense. |
Date | 11:06:28, January 01, 2017 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Act |
Message | ''Mr. Speaker I don't think the Hutorian Socialist Party really understand the meaning of ''exotic animals''. Here by exotic we meant ''that came from a foreign country''. We would indeed support a bill that would protect animal right, but since banning every animals that came from another country has nothing to do with animals right we cannot support this bill.'' -Eloise Rogers Senator og the National Progress Party |
Date | 14:23:01, January 01, 2017 CET | From | Hutori Socialists | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Act |
Message | "Mr Speaker, Mrs Eloise Rogers of the National Progress Party has a misinformed definition of exotic animals. They are defined generally across any reliable educational source as "a rare or unusual animal pet, or an animal kept within human households, which is generally thought of as a wild species that is not typically kept as a pet." We strongly urge the National Progress Party to reconsider their vote on the Animal Freedom Act, in the name of animal rights, which they supposedly support. By voting against this, you jeopardise our international reputation as a nation of equality and liberty." Elisabeth Harland, Leader of the Hutorian Socialist Party |
Date | 18:56:10, January 01, 2017 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the Animal Freedom Act |
Message | OOC:I am pretty sure that here the word ''exotic'' mean that it came from a foreign country. But since there is a disagreement, I will try to ask on the forum about this. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes |
Total Seats: 234 | |||||
no | Total Seats: 237 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 129 |
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