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Petition update, 15 May 2008

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Currently non-human animals have no legally recognised rights and can be considered property. While there are many great differences between species, both human and non-human animals can feel pain and suffer, so have an interest in the avoidance of the aforementioned. It is not acceptable to withhold rights from beings on the basis of species membership. Intelligence level or the inability to reciprocate rights is not a valid reason for withholding rights from any individual with interests. Indeed, we would not allow such measures to be used in deciding who has rights within our own species.

Current signatories

Aran Mathai, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Colin Pirie
• mairi mackechnie
• Nat Queen
• Erica Barclay
• Ronda Maasz
• Mr Chris Dowdeswell
• Reece Coleman
• natasha young
• Beckie Maclellan
• Janet Thonrton
• Aissa Cockroft
• Mark Palmer
• John Morgan
• Janine Iveson
• Judith Swain
• Denise Bennett
• Helen Stevens
• F. Dowling
• Jennifer Williams
• Martin Delveaux
• Cat Smith
• lisa everton
• Mark Johnson
• Sarah Grayston
• Anna Laprade
• Janet Tomlinson
• fran cornwell
• H Brand
• Adam Moss
• Elizabeth Cracknell
• S Leigh
• Judith Hembrow
• D. Marshall
• Doreen Brand
• Helen Stollery
• MELANIE CROSS
• jane mason
• Emma Rickard
• Maria Daines
• Steve Jones
• Mary Alice Pollard, Cornwall's Voi
• Christopher Charles Pollard, Singer/Songwriter & Author
• Varda Mehrotra
• Kerry Lewis
• Emma Haskell
• Anita Young
• Pauline Hammond
• Katie Smith
• Martin J Masterman-Lister
• debbie tench
• Jenny Holmes
• Patricia Reijnders
• Jeremy Mowforth
• Catherine Clements
• Irene Boyne
• alexia scott
• Alice Ekrek
• Justin Broadwith
• Lana McDowell
• Joy Edwards
• Amy Davis
• Chris Deacon
• David Grimsell
• Alastair James Fyffe
• Joanne Sim
• Gaye UK
• Kerry Duggan
• Leah Clark
• kat himmel
• Miranda Cook
• Amanda George
• Anne Thompson
• katie bennett
• Justina Mclennan
• Paul Taylor
• mandy cotter
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• Joanna Robertson
• Nicola 'Brien
• C.K. Yoe
• Anne Yoe
• barbara sheringham
• susan cotton
• Laura Page
• ron dyson
• David Fletcher
• Geraldine Sebastian
• wendy allard
• Cris Iles
• Linda Byway
• Jane Easton
• Margaret Bardsley
• Matt Clowes Earth First!
• Barbara aldwell
• Dominic Iles
• Sue Cole
• Sue Smith
• Gillian Russell
• Sarah O'Leary
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• Emma Broadhead
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• adry webber
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• kathy goss
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• Revd Lynne Chitty
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• Jenny Chalkley
• julia Duckworth
• Adelle Pope
• Audrey Hargreaves
• Helen Bennett
• Julie Trevithick
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