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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to seriously consider the impact that pro-anorexia and bulimia websites have and to pass appropriate legislation prohibiting them. More details
Submitted by Hannah Rich – Deadline to sign up by: 12 July 2009 – Signatures: 192
Petition update, 22 September 2009
You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "seriously consider the impact that pro-anorexia and bulimia websites have and to pass appropriate legislation prohibiting them."The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20563
Prime Minister's Office
More details from petition creator
We feel that the government should strongly consider following the example of the French government in passing legislation prohibiting websites which promote anorexia and/or bulimia as a lifestyle choice, and imposing fines or jail sentences on website owners. We believe it should be a criminal offence to encourage young people that their eating disorder is not an illness but an acceptable way of life. Although the media cannot be held fully responsible for most cases of eating disorders, we also believe that the treatment of these conditions in the press, television and other media forms should be censored so as not to promote them in anyway, and should be covered by legislation to that effect. The influence the fashion industry and related media with regards to eating disorders, has been well publicised. However, we feel strongly that the government of this country should seriously consider the impact that the media, websites in particular, can have on sufferers, or potential sufferers, of eating disorders.
Current signatories
Hannah Rich, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- John Holden (petitions.pm.gov.uk/Thereisnogod)
- Rebecca Keogh
- Andrew Pandyan
- Mhari Dunlop
- Jade
- Georgina Somerville
- Debbie Banaszkiewicz
- Gerard Banaszkiewicz
- Rivka Marks
- Merili Pugh
- John Talbot
- danielle leblancq
- Sarah Evans
- Elizabeth Morton
- Hayley Woodhouse
- Benedict Arnold
- Louisa-Jane Grimmer
- Louise Goldsmith
- Margaret Mary Wheelan
- Zara Qurashi
- Sarah Francis
- Jessica Howard-Armitage
- Chris Ustel
- Charlotte Allinson
- ian brocklebank
- Rosalynd Soutehrn
- Jade Carver
- Fiona Clarke
- ANGELA HOWLETT
- Emma Riley
- Diana Davies
- Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/NHS-dentists4all/)
- Liz Benson
- Ceinwen Stone
- Joanna Guest
- Gillian Grieve
- Caitlin Coates
- Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
- Paul Ward
- Daisy James
- Samantha Burton
- Theresa
- Leon James
- Heidi Whurr
- Robert Ireson
- Julie Whurr
- Melanie Sutton
- Beverley Squires
- Gemma Burke
- Hilary Rich
- Claire Glenton
- Sue Holcombe
- Rachel Neil
- Jess Pearce
- Felicity Neil
- Emma Bryant
- Lindsey Stulock
- Melissa Kellard
- Louise Witham
- Fiona Francis
- Sarah Michell
- Sarah Turner
- Anna Cocka
- corina crowley
- Felicity Wood
- Jennifer Inglis
- Camilla Gibson
- Clare De Meyer
- Joan McEwan
- Jenny Baylis
- Valerie Hopkins
- Charlie
- francesca gerali
- Kathleen Cullinane
- kara mcintosh
- Sam Thomas
- Laura Tombs
- Terri Linzi King
- Verity
- Laura Richmond
- laura faulkner
- Christine Pinkard
- Frances Wright
- Jennie Frost
- Jane Statham
- Emily Parkinson
- tracy foreman
- Rebecca Crompton
- Feodora Rayner
- Rebecca Morris
- Chris Unsworth
- Helen Pugh
- jessica james
- Hannah Thompson
- Hannah Tarrant
- Julius Piercy
- Alex Kaiserman
- Jessica Rawnsley
- Helen Barclay
- Jason Grant
- Clinton Lau
- Emily Lishak
- Sarah Pye
- Ellen Gledhill
- Jessica Henshall
- Emily Cook
- Katherine Fisher
- Jessica Kirk
- Helen Thomson
- Hannah Foote
- Lizzie Kyte
- Lucy Best-Shaw
- Nicola Beaumont
- vanessa jessop
- Natalie Hill
- Nicola Dennison
- Jessica Anne Cheetham
- Jessica Sutcliffe
- Ben Brighouse
- Olivia Nater
- Katherine Bavage
- Francis Bodhi Paul Hunt
- Michael Secker
- Natalie Kent
- Vivienne Clarkson
- Stuart Ferguson
- Emma
- Heather Kitt
- Megan Coast
- Sophie Bourke
- Laura Steele
- Louise Samantha Coleman
- Denise Horsley
- Ashna Vaghela
- Gemma Coe
- chloe skuodas
- Louise Dixon
- Martha Davis
- David Tan
- ana hall
- Rebekah Franklin
- Lyric
- Lisa DeGregorio
- Hannah Ramshaw
- Elizabeth Bawden
- Nicola C Lavin
- Kate Dean
- laura hart
- Frances Parry
- Anne Osborne
- Miss A L Ryan
- Emma-Jane Haigh
- Sophie Butler-Smith
- liz
- Gabriella Cox
- Stephanie Moorhouse
- Kelly Beales
- Fiona Brown
- Qian Wang
- kate johnson
- Jack Campbell
- Claire Shillito
- Elizabeth Ryan
- Lisa Holdsworth
- Marleigh Price
- kerri costello
- connie gibson
- Richie Burns
- Jennifer Aimee Hindmarch
- Jenn Harding
- Angela Lathwell
- Rosanna Lathwell
- Simon Lathwell
- Natalie Pryor
- Dawn Lathwell
- Heather Lathwell
- Claire Lathwell
- Libby Kirkham
- Eleanor Byrd
- Anna McNay
- Clare Lush
- Tim Christian
- Alison MacKenzie
- J Rawbone
- Margaret King
- G. Cagle
- David Tapley
- kristina
- Nadia Cassim
- natalie capon
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