Irish Times article on the move to strike cat & dog meat from menus in China, and the proposal’s widespread unpopularity:
A CHINESE government proposal to take cat and dog off the menu around the country has prompted an angry outcry from regions where the meat is popular, saying it would destroy local culinary traditions. As it stands, there are no laws banning animal cruelty or killing animals for food in China…
In 67-59 vote, the Catalonian Parliament voted to end bullfighting under an animal law prohibiting torture. Friday’s motion still needs a final vote by the regional government next year before the ban can become law. Activists hope that this will be the first to an eventual country-wide ban. The vote follows an intense campaign with more than 250,000 people signing a petition to ban bullfighting…
Catalonia voted yesterday to ban bullfighting, a move that campaigners claim could mark the beginning of the end of Spain’s most controversial sport.
The motion called for a change in Catalonia’s animal cruelty law that would see fighting bulls, which are currently excluded, protected from any kind of torture.
via Catalan Parliament passes landmark vote to ban bullfighting – Times Online.
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