EATING cats and dogs might result in a 15-day detention, according to a draft of a new anti-animal abuse law that has rekindled an old controversy on the Internet.
The draft also stipulates that people who eat cats and dogs should be fined as much as 5,000 yuan (US$732) and restaurants found offering cats and dogs on menus fined as much as 500,000 yuan.
The main advocate of the law, Chang Jiwen, said the draft could help break down trade barriers imposed on China's animal p…

The Department for Environment Food and rural Affairs (Defra) reports that the draft Bill lays out the scope and responsibilities of the new body and how it will be constituted and operate. It follows extensive public consultation.

Other measures in the draft Bill include:

Relief flights started to fly directly into Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Thursday morning following the devastating earthquake two days earlier.

A spokesman for Air Charter Service said its first relief flight from the UK, a government-chartered B757, was forced to fly from London Gatwick into Santo Domingo in the neighbouring Dominican Republic.

Within the first few hours after the quake struck in Haiti, several

airlines moved teams of search & rescue dogs into the region. So, animal

transport has already played a very important role in the recovery effort

and they are now saving lives. I’m very proud of our members and what we

do every day to prepare for moments just like this…

The below was originally published November 2006. It was re-issued with minor corrections
February 2009. Below is a summary and theregulation in its entirety can be found at http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/welfare/farmed/transport/eu-transportreg.htm

Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations
(’the Regulation’) requires that any vehicleunder taking lon…