Journal article
A voluntary trap approval scheme to end trap welfare inequality in the UK
- Abstract:
- Spring traps are widely used for killing small mammals in the UK. By UK law, most spring traps are required to meet welfare approval standards, but break-back traps for rats (Rattus norvegicus) and mice (Mus musculus), and all mole (Talpa europaea) traps, are exempt. I argue that these exemptions are unjustified and should be repealed. Given that this is unlikely to happen soon, I propose an alternative approach - a ‘Voluntary Trap Approval (VTA)’ scheme, which could drive the necessary change via ‘carrot’ rather than ‘stick’. Such a scheme might benefit the welfare of many thousands of animals each year.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
- Journal:
- Animal Welfare More from this journal
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 131-133
- Publication date:
- 2017-02-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-12-18
- ISSN:
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0962-7286
- Pubs id:
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pubs:666835
- UUID:
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uuid:e67f53bb-2cdc-40a8-ad27-3b480dc52839
- Local pid:
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pubs:666835
- Source identifiers:
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666835
- Deposit date:
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2016-12-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © Universities Federation for Animal Welfare. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Ingenta Connect at [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/ufaw/aw/2017/00000026/00000001/art00013].
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