Animal welfare

There have been many letters in the past months calling for animal welfare, hospitals for animals etc. One of the persons working for SOS Animals sent me an e-mail on inclusion of animal welfare into the EU constitution.

This is what the e-mail said:

"Dear all,

"Not much time is left and we kindly urge you to make every effort to achieve the inclusion of animal welfare into the EU constitution.

"As you may know representatives of the EU member states and all the states that will join the European Union in 2004 and 2007 are working in the so called EU convention to draft an EU constitution, which shall be passed at the end of 2003 in Rome.

"A first draft of the constitution, which did not include animal welfare, was already presented in February. Three amendments to incorporate animal welfare as a Union objective have already been presented to the presidium by two members of the convention. By the end of May the presidium and the members of the convention will agree on a second draft. You can imagine that most of the convention members do not think animal welfare has to become a Union objective.

"And that is exactly the point where we have to raise our voices to convince the convention members that animal welfare has to become a Union objective in the constitution.

"How can you help, what efforts can you make?

"We prepared everything. What is left for you to do is the following:

"Please have a look at www.animals-constitution.info. There you will find a petition to sign and all the information you need to forward this campaign. Click on the flag of your country (Malta). After you have signed the petition you will get an e-mail asking you to confirm your signature. Make sure you do this since it is the only way your signature will be submitted.

"Let us help those who cannot help themselves."

And indeed let us do that! This is the chance we have all been waiting for. I hope this letter will be of help in our determination to help all unfortunate animals.