Animal Aid wants livestock out from Games ceremony

Work has directly started to install the laid upward for the opening scene of the Olympic Opening ceremony, which is called ‘Green together with Pleasant’.

Animal Aid is dismayed past times plans to purpose animals inwards the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, suggesting it could autumn foul of brute welfare laws.

Games organisers this calendar week announced details of the opening ceremony, including plans for a scene within the stadium at the kickoff of the ceremony depicting idyllic British countryside, consummate with farm animals, including 12 horses together with seventy sheep.

Animal Aid said it had written to to the managing director of ceremonies for the London Olympics Organising Committee, Bill Morris, urging him to terminate the planned purpose of alive animals at the opening ceremony.

The grouping said it was besides reminding him of the duty of assist enforced past times the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

The opening ceremony volition characteristic horses, sheep, cows, chickens together with ducks inwards the pastoral scene.

Animal Aid said it was difficult to imagine a to a greater extent than inappropriate setting for animals than alongside an 80,000 crowd.

Animal Aid wrote to Bill Morris: “Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, you lot bring a duty of assist to animals. It is an offence ‘to displace physical or mental suffering, whether this is past times a positive deed or an omission, to a protected brute where this is unnecessary together with the someone knew or could hold upward expected to know that an brute would endure as a result’.

The grouping continued: “There is no incertitude that whatever animals brought within the Olympic stadium earlier an 80,000-strong crowd would hold upward at opportunity of suffering existent harm. And at that spot is no incertitude that at that spot would hold upward grounds for a prosecution should whatever of the animals sense physical or mental suffering.

“At the opening ceremony of the Seoul Olympics inwards 1988, a publish of doves landed inwards the Olympic torch together with were burned to expiry inwards front end of the watching world. Are you lot willing to let United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland to hold upward seen inwards an as negative light? If not, I urge you lot to withdraw the alive animals from your plans.”

 

 

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