I want to follow up on the comments from the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, about ritual slaughter. We have been reading in the newspapers that, if this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, it will become illegal to drop lobsters into boiling water to kill them. Is that one aspect of the thinking behind what the Government are doing? If that is the case, where does it leave pigs being slaughtered? They are highly intelligent animals and with a very high sense of smell. One might say that the slaughter of pigs does serious damage to them and to their feelings. I would just like to know where the Minister stands on this.
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Hamilton of Epsom
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 20 July 2021.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL].
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