st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } Von: Miguel
Moutinho | ANIMAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Montag, 18. Februar 2008 11:48
An: Miguel Moutinho | ANIMAL
Betreff: Please urge Portugal´s Prime Minister to officially support the
"Manifesto ANIMAL - Guiding Proposal for a Portuguese Animal Protection Code",
its principles, objectives and the rules it aims to establish
Please urge Portugal´s Prime Minister to officially support the “Manifesto
ANIMAL – Guiding Proposal for a Portuguese Animal Protection Code”, its
principles, objectives and the rules it aims to establish
Please write to Portugal´s Prime Minister urging him and the Portuguese
Government to officially support and promote the establishment and enactment of
the proposals and objectives outlined by ANIMAL in the "Manifesto ANIMAL –
Guiding Proposal for a Portuguese Animal Protection Code" to forward and
consolidate the legislative protection of animals in Portugal as an important
national project.
Please find below the suggested message. You may use it and send it or, if you
prefer, you may write and send your own personal message. Please, send it by
e-mail and, if you can, send it also in a letter through postal mail or fax to:
Prime Minister of Portugal
Rua da Imprensa à Estrela, 4
1200-888 Lisboa
Portugal
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On behalf of all animals in Portugal, we thank you for your support and
participation, which are truly vital for the success of this campaign.
To His Excellency the Prime Minister of Portugal:
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
Considering that it is the duty of humans to respect animals and to ensure
that these benefit from legislation which protects them in an adequate and
effective way; considering that that duty is increasingly recognised and valued
not only within the Portuguese society but also across the world, and that it
has been driving governments, parliaments and municipalities from several
regions of the world to take advanced legislative and practical steps to
protect animals; considering that, in spite of the latter being also a duty of
the Portuguese State, this state has not been matching it, or meeting its
responsibilities in this field, in a satisfactory way, thus leaving Portugal´s
animals cruelly abandoned and victims of the state´s indifference, which, both
by actions and omissions, has been permitting that many and serious harms
commited against animals may happen in an environment of almost total impunity;
considering that the Portuguese State, both by not taking
proactive, modern, effective and adequate legislative measures, by not even
conducting a satisfactory prevention, enforcement and penalization activity
regarding the existing animal protection regulations, by not forbidding cruel,
unacceptable and absolutely unnecessary practises, and also by involving some
of its institutions, among which are the municipalities, in the cruel treatment
of animals, has originated serious problems affecting animals in the country;
and also considering that the unprecedented study “Values and Attitudes Towards
the Protection of Animals in Portugal”, done in May 2007 by the Center of
Sociologic Studies and Research of the ISCTE, based on a survey conducted
between February and March 2007 by the survey company Metris GfK, made clear
how the majority of the Portuguese people – a very significant one, in many
aspects, and overwhelming, in so many others – believes that animals in
Portugal are, in fact, extremely unprotected and should, in several
areas, be urgently and strongly protected by the Portuguese State; the
Portuguese Parliament, and all its parliamentary groups, are presently being
asked to:
1. Approve, establish and enact a new animal protection law – to be shaped as
an Animal Protection Code – that is a) wide-ranging, in a way that it
establishes animal protection regulations affecting all areas in which these
are somehow used and involved, b) coherent, clear and specific, in a way that
its provisions can be understood, respected and enforced in a clear way and
without causing any doubts, c) strongly restrictive, establishing i)
unequivocally the prohibitions which are due to be defined, ii) strong
penalties to the infringements of the law, and iii) exclusive legal permissions
to hold animals in captivity and/or to inflict pain, suffering and/or death to
animals only in the cases in which that is strictly necessary and justified,
also rigidly and clearly regulating those permissions, and d) easy to enforce,
in a way that the agencies and officials which are responsible for enforcing
the law and making sure it is respected may execute their enforcement work in
the most direct, fast and effective manner, so that the infringements may be
punished as swiftly and efficiently as possible, also to be accompanied of
immediate and precautionary measures to protect the affected animals´ safety
and integrity – measures which should be also immediately put to practice by
these very agencies and officials;
and
2. To additionally consider and incorporate in the preparation of this new
animal protection law – which is requested to be established and enacted shaped
as an Animal Protection Code taking into consideration all the aspects
mentioned in the previous point – all the elements which are outlined and
advocated in the fair, extensive and comprehensive guiding proposal for a
Portuguese Animal Protection Code presented in the document “Manifesto ANIMAL”,
written by ANIMAL and promoted by this organisation to accomplish a modern,
effective, progressist and fair Animal Protection Code in relation to the needs
of the legislative protection of animals in Portugal and to the Portuguese
State´s duties in this field.
I not only support all these claims and principles but I also believe that this
great initiative meets a very urgent and serious need which should be regarded
as nationally – and internationally, as organisations and people from all over
the world are calling for it as well – important. The consideration and support
to this initiative must come not only from the Portuguese society but also from
the highest figures of the Portuguese State, I believe. That is why I am
writing to you to ask the Portuguese Government to officially support and
promote the establishment and enactment of the proposals and objectives which I
mentioned above, so that the legislative protection of animals in Portugal may
evolve in a modern, effective, progressist and fair way.
Thanking you in advance for the attention which, I trust, you will give to my
request,
Yours, respectfully,
Name:
Town:
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E-mail:
Animal.org.pt :: No More Crimes Without Punishment :: ManifestoANIMAL.org
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