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Gardeners critical over slug protection laws
By Fiona Govan
(Filed: 11/07/2004)
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...11/nslug11.xml
A new animal welfare law that will offer slugs and snails the same
protection as cats and dogs was condemned by gardeners yesterday.

This is only the start. It will also be illegal to pull up weeds that
are food plants for caterpillars or greenfly. The only solution for
councils who run municipal gardens will be to concrete them over.
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