Tag: animal rights
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Opposition Leader Alex Borg pledges to reform Animal Welfare Commissioner at first Animal Rights Conference
Yesterday, government Ministers, Members of the Opposition, NGOs and professionals in the animals sector got together for the first National Animal Conference at the Salina Natural Reserve, organised by VuÄ‹i għall-Annimali. Opposition Leader Alex Borg also attended the conference and pledged to reform the Animal Welfare Commissioner by providing it with regulatory powers. He also…
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PN should continue its momentum with progressive legislation by proposing reforming laws on animals and pets
Apart from backtracking on the environment, the Labour Party has also backtracked on animals’ rights as it went from banning circuses to legalising the keeping and trade of wild and exotic animals. Animal rights activists also cite the rising number of cases of animal cruelty and the number of dogs being abandoned in the streets.…
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The Montekristo Estates host an illegal circus – animal rights activists urge the Animal Welfare Director to act
The Montekristo Estates, owned by Charles (ÄŠaqnu) Polidano, is hosting a circus show called “Circo Orfei”: another blatant and unlawful use of animals in captivity at a site already notorious for such practices. The Labour government banned animal circuses in Malta in 2014. The law is now being flouted as the incumbent Labour government introduced laws…
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Animal Rights Activists reiterate they are against the keeping of exotic animals in principle
Following our article on how the Minister for Agriculture has used animal rights activists to co-opt their support for legalising the keeping of exotic and wild animals, activist Althea Galea reached out to clarify that they, in principle, oppose such legalisation. She highlighted the part of their press release copied below. The amnesty is being…
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Blackmailing animal activists with rampant criminality and animal cruelty
The Minister for Agriculture and Animal Rights Anton Refalo is blackmailing animal activists to support his horrible reform that allowed the legalisation of wild and exotic animals. His position is very simple but needs some explaining. You can see this grotesque display where the Minister of Agriculture has co-opted animal rights activists to support his…
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Of all laws the Nationalist Party wants to repeal is the “Bully Breed Notice”
While Repubblika and Jason Azzopardi are busy with Magisterial Inquiries, the Nationalist Opposition in Parliament is busy defending the right to own Bully breeds in Parliament. The Shadow Minister for Animal Welfare will present as motion in parliament to repeal the government’s notice banning the breeding of Bully dogs. You can read the motion here…
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Government ban on Bully dogs should go even further
I do not understand the government’s intention to go for a half-measure in banning the breeding of non-pedigree Bully dogs, only to regularise the breeding of the pure breed with Kennel Clubs. This is a lot of bureaucracy that is unneeded and only serves a couple of individuals for doing an activity that is potentially…
