The New EU Constitution Contains A `Golden Clause' Which Will Be Invaluable For All Those Campaigning For A Better Deal For Animals


Animal rights lobbyists have succeeded in ensuring that the new EU constitution contains a clause insisting that the rights of animals must be taken into account by the EU in all its activities.

So, if the worst comes to the worst and the dreaded new Constitution becomes law (as I fear it will), animal lovers should ensure that their governments (and the EU) obey the law.

The importance of this clause should not be under-estimated for it will mean that the EU accepts that animals have rights - and that those rights must be respected.

If the new constitution becomes law the EU will have to insist that those who farm animals, move them, kill them and turn them into food products remember and respect the animals' rights.

This simple clause could, in the end, be all that animal lovers need to put one of the world's biggest and cruellest industries out of business.

And it will, of course, enable us to put an end to vivisection and to all types of hunting and shooting.

Animal lovers will be able to force every farmer, every abattoir worker, every scientist, every butcher and every food conglomerate to treat the rights of animals seriously.

If the new constitution is forced upon us this clause will help make the resultant loss of sovereignty and freedom a little more palatable.


Copyright Vernon Coleman 2004


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