France: Animals to get official status in civil code!

[Bluebear]

Ah, mais oui! Another kindness about which the heartless RWer's can make fun.


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PARIS (AFP) - Animals are for the first time to get an official status of their own under France's 200 year-old civil code, in a move that reflects the country's arrival from a rural to urban society....

"Compared to 1804, men and animals now live together in a way that is completely different from two centuries ago," Perben said.

"What has to be borne in mind is that there are now millions and millions of living beings that accompany man throughout his life, especially those men and women who are the most fragile, vulnerable and lonely," he said....

Under the EU's proposed constitution -- to go before a referendum in France on May 29 -- states are obliged to "pay full regard to the requirements of animal welfare."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/afplifestylefrancelaw

[Vektor]

1. YAY! Tres bon!

We need to do that here too. Man, I love the French. Of course, I'm biased - I am the French. :-)

Let the wing-nuts make fun all they want. They can kiss my French Liberal ass. They are just jealous.

[Bluebear]

5. Merci France!

[true_notes]

2. In Northern Italy...

You must walk your dog 3 times a day, or face stiff financial punishment. Repeat offenders get jailtime (Italian jails are no joke). Europe, no matter how conservative they try to get will always be a liberalist society. That's why the cons hate them so.

[Piperay]

3. HURRAY

for the French...VIVA! :thumbsup:

[Yellow Horse]

4. That's great, but they still EAT HORSES.

We don't, but over 50,000 "unwanted" US horses are sent to slaughter each year. Some after years or decades of service as riding horses or family companions. The US horsemeat goes primarily to France, Belgium, and Japan.

I raise horses (for recreation and companionship ONLY) and I frankly don't want the Big Brother Government regulations that accompany raising "meat" animals, such as registering my home as "livestock premises" and keeping written records of every move I make with every animal on file for TWENTY YEARS.

And I fear these regs are coming.

C'est mal!

:-(