The Nonlinear Library EA - An impactful opportunity to take action for animals, by today (May 7th): Reply to UK government's open consultation on animal welfare labelling by David M
May 7, 2024
01:28
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I saw this post from Doing Westminster Better and wanted to blast it widely for people to take action today as it seems like a great opportunity, and a great ratio of effort to expected impact.
Defra - the UK's department for the environment and, in some sense, the ministry that affects more lives than any other, as the body which regulates the farming of over a billion farmed animals in England - is currently considering the most impactful animal welfare regulation in years. This is your last day to tell the government that you care about animals and support this regulation.
Here's what you need to know: the government is considering introduce animal welfare labeling. This would support consumers who still eat meat to make better informed choices about the animals they eat, whether that means helping you find the higher welfare product, or nudging you to recognise the suffering you're enabling by buying low welfare meat.
Details continue in the linked post.
The call to action says it takes 30 minutes. Plausibly more MVP, copy-paste actions are also possible, but I don't know whether copy-pasting answers into a government consultation helps. I'm going to try and find time to do this tonight.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org
I saw this post from Doing Westminster Better and wanted to blast it widely for people to take action today as it seems like a great opportunity, and a great ratio of effort to expected impact.
Defra - the UK's department for the environment and, in some sense, the ministry that affects more lives than any other, as the body which regulates the farming of over a billion farmed animals in England - is currently considering the most impactful animal welfare regulation in years. This is your last day to tell the government that you care about animals and support this regulation.
Here's what you need to know: the government is considering introduce animal welfare labeling. This would support consumers who still eat meat to make better informed choices about the animals they eat, whether that means helping you find the higher welfare product, or nudging you to recognise the suffering you're enabling by buying low welfare meat.
Details continue in the linked post.
The call to action says it takes 30 minutes. Plausibly more MVP, copy-paste actions are also possible, but I don't know whether copy-pasting answers into a government consultation helps. I'm going to try and find time to do this tonight.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org