"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Sun, 16 May 2021 12:21:50 +0100, nightjar wrote:

On 15/05/2021 22:23, Max Demian wrote:
On 15/05/2021 18:03, Commander Kinsey wrote:
New UK law:

"During a visit to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, the Environment
Secretary said that the Government would take a significant step
forwards on animal welfare by formally recognising animals as sentient
beings through a new Animal Sentience Bill that will be introduced to
Parliament tomorrow (13 May), putting animal welfare at the very heart
of government policy decision making."

If animals are to be recognised as sentient beings, shouldn't that
mean everyone must become vegetarian?

Only if there's a law against eating sentient beings. I don't think
there's even a law against eating humans, thought there might be one
against improper use of a human body. (I'm not sure how that works;
don't some hippy types fry up their children's afterbirths and eat
them?)


There is not a law against eating human flesh, but getting hold of some
legally might be a problem.

The point is, you'd get done if you killed a person for the purposes of
eating.

But its less clear what the law would say if someone chose
to kill themselves so you could eat them. Or even what the
legal situation is if say you are marooned on a useless
boat and choose to eat those who die of starvation.

Eating animals that are now declared sentient, you have to kill them
first.

Not if you eat road kill and those that die in other ways
that have nothing to do with any action of yours.

If this law was used correctly, it would require us to only eat animals
that died of natural causes.

And road kill etc.