From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:
LONDON–Is the Conservative-led British coalition government
engaged in “The great animal rights betrayal,” as the newspaper The
Independent alleged on November 13, 2010? Or has the transition
from Labour to Conservative government changed nothing much, as
representatives of several leading British animal welfare
organizations told ANIMAL PEOPLE?
“In a series of little-noticed moves,” The Independent
charged, “the coalition has scrapped or stalled Labour initiatives
to improve animal welfare. Agriculture minister James Paice, who
part-owns a farm in Cambridgeshire, has been behind most of the
moves,” The Independent said. “Paice this week delayed by five years
a ban on beak mutilations of laying hens due to come into force in
January.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2010:
(Actual press date November 3.)

BRUSSELS–European Union commissioner in charge of health and
consumer policy John Dalli on October 19, 2010 announced that the
European Commission, in its capacity as advisory body to the
European Parliament, “will propose a temporary suspension of animal
cloning for food production in the EU.”
Explained a prepared brief, “The Commission also plans to
suspend temporarily the use of cloned farm animals and the marketing
of food from clones. All temporary measures will be reviewed after
five years. The establishment of a traceability system for imports
of reproductive materials for clones, such as semen and embryos of
clones, is also envisaged. The system will allow farmers and
industry to set up a database with the animals that would emerge from
these reproductive materials.”

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