09-04-2008, 05:40 AM
Quote:Your government not only controls personal freedoms in regards to Health, but apparently it wants to regulate how you treat animals also (i.e. fishing). I can't believe they made it illegal to fish and throw back in Switzerland. This, IMO, is an example of extreme protection, and a good example of control.
Maybe there are a few strange examples, but a government that tells its citizen that they have to treat animals in an ethical way is a good thing.
There are too many bad things going on, ranging from the transport of horses and other farm animals (for the meat) from Holland to Italy in summer and the fact that they often had to stand for tens of hours at some border waiting etc, etc, to just plain animal abuse. And in this case there are no good laws in place yet. If you are caught having 20 dogs in a filthy cage that you didn't feed for a week.....you can do the same again after two weeks. There is not even a fine, let alone prison time involved.
People that flush their live goldfish through the toilet should just have their but kicked, bit will likely disappear anyway through normal evolution.