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Pigs in Pain

Target: Minister Leterme, Lutgen & Demotte, Vlaamse Regering
Sponsor: Michel Vandenbosch, GAIA
  • Signatures: 7,464
  • Goal: 100,000
  • Deadline: Ongoing...
GAIA opposes the castration of piglets carried out without anaesthesia. This very painful procedure is carried out for economic reasons and should be prohibited by legislation.



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7,489 1:28 pm PDT, Jul 5 mucedda massimiliano 17
7,488 3:54 pm PDT, Jul 4 Emma Carvell 20
7,487 8:48 am PDT, Jul 3 Anonymous 45
7,486 1:40 am PDT, Jul 1 Tim Catinat 40
7,485 8:10 am PDT, Jun 29 Tamarah Swensen 16
7,484 7:23 pm PDT, Jun 28 LuCy J Boogaard 47
7,483 4:45 pm PDT, Jun 22 Amber Pilon 19
7,482 12:51 pm PDT, Jun 20 Judith Wijnamn 38
7,481 2:10 pm PDT, Jun 19 Langlet Elodie 18
7,480 6:03 am PDT, Jun 16 Bronya O'sullivan 35
7,479 9:08 am PDT, Jun 15 Anonymous 31
7,478 4:11 pm PDT, Jun 13 richaud anne lise 14
7,477 6:14 pm PDT, Jun 5 Deborah Cooper 44
7,476 1:05 pm PDT, Jun 4 Malorie Lemka 20
7,475 2:37 pm PDT, Jun 3 Patti Ross 54
7,474 12:53 pm PDT, Jun 3 THE PHOENIX 40
7,473 7:03 am PDT, Jun 3 Tina Trahan 47
7,472 3:56 pm PDT, Jun 2 Cecy V. Aguirre López 36
7,471 3:47 pm PDT, Jun 2 Jet Barrett 15
7,470 2:32 pm PDT, Jun 2 Anita Kofta 47
7,469 11:10 am PDT, Jun 2 Donna Smith 47
7,468 10:38 am PDT, Jun 2 JoAnne Perdue 61
7,467 9:26 am PDT, Jun 2 Susan Hall - Amado 51
7,466 9:01 am PDT, Jun 2 Willa Kerns-parrill 53
7,465 8:19 am PDT, Jun 2 Dawn Bolin 33
7,464 7:36 am PDT, Jun 2 Karin Braunsberger 46
7,463 7:21 am PDT, Jun 2 John V. Peterson 47
7,462 6:16 am PDT, Jun 2 BigCatRescue Annie Joyce 46
7,461 7:58 pm PDT, Jun 1 Elizabeth Burlock 37
7,460 6:56 pm PDT, Jun 1 Veronique Pires 36
7,459 4:04 pm PDT, Jun 1 Ramon Cardena 33
7,458 2:08 pm PDT, Jun 1 Silky Wyld 39
7,457 11:48 am PDT, Jun 1 Rena Law 44
7,456 6:14 am PDT, Jun 1 Francesca Lazarski 37
7,455 4:15 am PDT, Jun 1 Jim Phillips 65
7,454 3:53 am PDT, Jun 1 Berenice St 70
7,453 3:49 am PDT, Jun 1 Sonia Rowland 46
7,452 3:18 am PDT, Jun 1 Kathy Chadwell 50
7,451 2:50 am PDT, Jun 1 YLynn Foster 47

Pigs in Pain

GAIA’s campaign convinced the minister of animal welfare to establish a special working group of scientists, representatives of the pig farmers unions and representatives of GAIA. Unfortunately, the decision to stop castrating piglets without anaesthesia and to allow it only under anaesthesia by 2006 as a first step in order to replace castration altogether by immunoneutralisation by 2009, has not been implemented. This is due to the attitude of the pig farmers’ unions, who have done nothing to make progress.
GAIA does not accept this situation. In the meantime, the unnecessary suffering of a huge number of defenceless animals goes on. This must change.

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