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Government drafts Bill on animal sentience
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Responding to the campaign to enshrine Article 13 of the Lisbon Treaty into UK law, the Government has today (12 December) published a draft Bill, which sets out that the government โmust have regard to the welfare needs of animals as sentient beings in formulating and implementing government policyโ.
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