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‘Tell kids they’re eating a dead animal’: Hunters want children’s and animal commissioners sacked
Hunters lobby want children’s and animal welfare commissioners sacked over ‘child abuse’ comments
6 May 2021, 9:54am
by Matthew Vella
Malta’s hunting lobby wants the government to sack its Children’s Commissioner and Animal Welfare Commissioner over comments they passed about children accompanying relatives on hunting outings.
The Federation for Hunting and Conservation (FKNK) said it wanted children’s commissioner Pauline Miceli and animal rights czar Alison Bezzina removed for having “expressed their personal emotional beliefs when making comments in support of BirdLife Malta’s latest anti-hunting campaign to ban children and youths from accompanying hunters while hunting.”
Time to take animal welfare more seriously | Alison Bezzina
ALISON BEZZINA has had a baptism of fire after her appointment as Animal Welfare Commissioner: but despite threats and pressure, the long-time animal rights activist sees improvements in the standards of animal protection
23 December 2020, 7:51am
by Raphael Vassallo
You are the third Animal Welfare Commissioner to have been appointed since the role was established; and you are separately also a well-known animal rights activist in your own capacity. Do you yourself interpret your appointment as a sign that government is finally animal welfare more seriously?
I’d like to interpret that way; and also as an acknowledgement that – even if the former commissioners did do a lot of work – raising awareness might not have been top of the agenda, because they tended to focus on other things… and were therefore not being seen to be doing the work they did.