Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01797 · Session 5

End live chick culling

Closed Submitted 11 Feb 2020 Rural Affairs
Signatures
10
246 online signatures with a country
Comments
22
Considered
1 meeting
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ban the maceration of newborn male chicks and set a deadline to end all live chick culling in the egg industry.

What the petitioner did first

I have contacted the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 26 Aug 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

246 online signatures
  1. Scotland186 75.6%
  2. United Kingdom44 17.9%
  3. England8 3.3%
  4. Northern Ireland3 1.2%
  5. United States2 0.8%
  6. Canada2 0.8%
  7. Estonia1 0.4%

Comments

22 comments, oldest first
  1. Heather Ryce 11 Feb 2020
    This disgusting and cruel practice has to end.
  2. Valentine Scarlett 14 Feb 2020
    Scotland should set an example in how best to treat animals and birds. This is a horrific way to treat newborn birds
  3. Marjie Thornton 14 Feb 2020
    At a time when we have never been more aware of the horrors of animal abuse, the Government must act to outlaw this particularly barbaric practice.
  4. Penny Macdonald 15 Feb 2020
    Not acceptable....Scotland is better than this!
  5. Marion Scott 21 Feb 2020
    This is not acceptable practice. Scotland leads the way in so many humanitarian areas and this should be one of them.
  6. John Patrick 22 Feb 2020
    As with other issues pertaining to animal rights and welfare, Scotland's lawmakers are doing nothing effective to prevent this suffering.

    We hope that the petition is successful, and that it prompts further legislative action applicable to the industry.

    John Patrick

    Scotland for Animals

    (Charity SC039109)
  7. Alexander Gray 23 Feb 2020
    It's barbaric. There really is no need for any other words, is there?
  8. Anne Bradley 23 Feb 2020
    No new born animals in Scotland should be culled. this is horrific animal abuse on sentient beings.
  9. Ali Thomson 23 Feb 2020
    If you wouldn't do it to a puppy or a kitten you shouldn't be doing it to any other baby animals.
  10. Christine Lord 23 Feb 2020
    This is a totally abhorrent practice.
  11. Anne Milne 23 Feb 2020
    Not acceptable in any circumstances
  12. James Martin 24 Feb 2020
    Not acceptable, Scotland has standards far higher than this despicable practice and should set an example for the rest of the world
  13. Lesley Shale 24 Feb 2020
    Totally unacceptable in 2020
  14. Gill Sinclair 25 Feb 2020
    Totally horrific
  15. James Boyle 26 Feb 2020
    There has to be a good reason for killing an animal and there is no good reason for killing these chicks.
  16. Victoria logan 26 Feb 2020
    The unnecessary and cruel slaughter of chicks is not a practice for civilised c
  17. Linda Grier 26 Feb 2020
    Not acceptable, however you look at it. Would we think twice if it was puppies or kittens?
  18. Jennifer Smith 27 Feb 2020
    Not acceptable its cruel and horrible that it even exists. About time something is done about it.
  19. Carol Wallace 28 Feb 2020
    In the 21st century
    - this type of inhuman activity is totally unacceptable !!
  20. Isobelanne Robertson 3 Mar 2020
    This is beyond cruel. How can anyone can carry out such an sickening job.
  21. Isobelanne Robertson 3 Mar 2020
    These babies are killed in a very cruel way. How anyone can take part in this cruelty is beyond my understanding.
  22. Caroline kelly 10 Mar 2020
    End this now