Oi. I don't know how many times I have to explain this.
The reason that successive governments have utterly failed to enhance our archaic animal abuse laws is because they cannot get the wording right that hunters and farmers can live with. Because whether you are hunting, slaughtering animals for meat or throwing a cat in a microwave, it is the same thing. Some animal is getting killed.
This isn't a philosophical position. I'm stating that the government is having a great deal of difficulty imposing tougher sentences and expanding it to cover such things as stray animals such as stray cats. As soon as something is written down, there are hoards of lobbyists against it, and the bills inevitably disappear.
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