Which UK laws ‘protect’ animals?
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By Claire Hamlett
Several legal cases have been brought against the British government recently for various failures to protect animals. Cruelty Free International lost a High Court challenge to the government for ‘secretly’ abandoning a ban on testing cosmetic product ingredients on animals. The Humane League has brought a High Court legal challenge against the government for breaching animal welfare regulations by allowing farmers to keep fast-growing breeds of ‘frankenchickens.’
The government has claimed in both cases that it has done nothing wrong (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has argued that fast-growing chicken breeds are not inherently at risk of health problems) and touted, as usual, its ‘high animal welfare standards.’ But this, along with the abandonment of a range of new animal protection laws that were expected to be adopted in 2022, makes it hard to follow what the state of animal welfare legislation in the UK actually is. So here is ...
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