UK to roll out laws to protect pets and wild animals
Live MintBritain has announced proposals to improve animal welfare, including a ban on puppy smuggling, trophy hunting and live animal exports. Ministers credited Brexit - the country's departure from the European Union - for allowing it to legislate on a host of practices, and enhance protections for pets and wild animals. Some of the planned laws include making it illegal to keep primates as pets, tightening import rules to tackle puppy smuggling, and ending the export of live animals for fattening and slaughter. The government said Brexit had given "new freedoms" in this area, and pledged to ensure animal welfare is not compromised in its future trade negotiations around the world. Meanwhile National Farmers Union deputy president Stuart Roberts warned the government that it should apply its beefed up livestock standards to countries like Australia, with which it is holding post-Brexit trade negotiations.
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