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Default Even chickens get a better life under new animal laws

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:02:28 +0100, Nick Maclaren wrote:

Even chickens get a better life under new animal laws
By Kate Connolly in Berlin
(Filed: 28/05/2004)

Chickens can no longer be kept in cages


Not of any size?

and dogs cannot be restrained
by choke collars under animal protection laws passed by the Austrian
parliament yesterday.

The legislation, the strictest in the world, has been under discussion
for more than two decades. It also stipulates that it is illegal to
place animals in the care of minors, to display pets in shop windows


Why?

or to use wild animals in circus acts or other spectacles.
Chickens in Austria can no longer be kept in cages

Cattle may not be tethered with rope,


Why?

and it is no longer allowed to
use electric shocks to train animals, or to dock their tails or ears.
Some politicians wept as the law was passed by a comfortable majority
following a five-hour debate, while others waved soft toys in
celebration.

Animal rights groups welcomed the changes, but the country's farmers
reacted angrily, arguing that forcing them to keep only free-range
chickens would increase prices and lead to a flood of eggs from
foreign battery hens.


More than likely. It will also almost undoubtedly lead to a lot more
chickens being killed by predators, if they really are to be free-range.

Fritz Grillitsch, the president of the national
farmers' association, called for compensation for farmers.

He said: "While we welcome aspects of this law, what pains us is the
ban on cages, which is an attack on farmers, their families and their
livelihoods."

He said Austrian consumers had a duty to rethink their behaviour by
buying local products even if they became more expensive because of
the new law.

Even some animal rights activists gave warning that the law could fail
animals


"Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal
welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment
of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of
animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only
serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are
achieved." --Gary Francione and Tom Regan, "A Movement's Means
Create Its Ends," The Animals' Agenda, January/February 1992,
pp. 40-42.

if it led to the import of animal products from countries with
poor rights records.

Despite strict protection laws, many animals are
imported annually into Switzerland and Germany and kept secretly in
substandard conditions.

The law which will come into effect next January, will set fines of
between £1,400 and £10,000 for animal cruelty. Inspectors will patrol
the country and make random checks to ensure that the law is
implemented correctly.

Chancellor Wolfgang Schussel said the law was a "pioneering example"
for the world on how to treat animals, adding that he would push for
similar laws to be implemented across the European Union.

The animal protection spokesman for the Socialists, Ulrike Sima, said
it was a "day of joy" for Austria and her counterpart for the Greens,
Brigid Weinzinger, said the law signalled that "Austrian society has
bettered itself".

The most controversial aspect of the law concerned the slaughtering of
animals according to religious practices. The far-Right Freedom Party,
the main supporter of the law, had called for a total ban but, under a
compromise deal, the rules now state that suffering must be cut from
"three minutes to just a few seconds" through the administration of
tranquillisers.

__________________________________________________ _______
Reactions to the throat cut

The variable of reactions to the incision must be separated from the variable of
the time required for the animal to become completely insensible. Recordings of
EEG or evoked potentials measure the time required for the animal to lose
consciousness. They are not measures of pain. Careful observations of the
animal's behavioural reactions to the cut are one of the best ways to determine
if cutting the throat without prior stunning is painful. The time required for the
animals to become unconscious will be discussed later.
[...]
Blood on the equipment did not appear to upset the cattle. They voluntarily
entered the box when the rear gate was opened. Some cattle licked the blood.

In all three restraint systems, the animals had little or no reaction to the throat cut.
There was a slight flinch when the blade first touched the throat. This flinch was
much less vigorous than an animal's reaction to an eartag punch. There was no
further reaction as the cut proceeded. Both carotids were severed in all animals.
Some animals in the modified ASPCA pen were held so loosely by the head holder
and rear pusher gate that they could have easily pulled away from the knife.
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