Since engaging in companion animal protection and anti-cruelty work, we have received clues or requests for help from netizens across the country almost every day: some stray animals are hungry and cold and need help; some rescue bases have encountered difficulties and need to brainstorm; some places have found black dens for the slaughter of companion animals; and there are also incidents of animal abuse that have occurred across the country.
Among them, what makes us most angry and powerless is those brutal and bloody animal cruelties.
Seriously, stray animals need food, need to find adopters, we can all donate money and materials, we can help release adoption information; found that the slaughter of companion animals black dens, there are many volunteers willing to travel long distances to the scene to call the police, report, so that these black-hearted cat and dog dealers are punished by law, although not easy, but it is indeed feasible.
But what can we do when it comes to animal cruelty? Many netizens will ask when providing us with clues to animal abuse: In the face of such inhuman people, in the face of such animal abuse, what can we do? What can we do with these animal-abusing guys? How can they be punished, recognize their mistakes, and dare not make them again in the future?
Every time, in the face of such an inquiry, we are a little self-conscious, although it is not our fault, and we are still too ashamed to look up from the screen.
Yes, we must admit that in the face of animal cruelty, except for online exposure and public opinion pressure, we have no way to take these abusers!
It's like the delivery man in Shanghai, with a stick, violently beat to death a kitten lying in the corner of the door of the building, just to vent his emotions, because "he and his wife quarreled and were in a bad mood." The incident caused public outrage, the residents quickly called the police, and the police quickly found the delivery man? But then what? He was criticized for educating! A life is gone, and the price he pays is only "criticism education" and platform banning.
In this way, there are still people who complain about him, thinking that society is too harsh on him, "although the kitten has lost a life, he has lost face and work." However, the face was lost by himself, and the job could be found again, but the life of the kitten could not be found.
In fact, network exposure and public opinion pressure are just helpless choices. Who wouldn't want a law to follow? If we had an anti-animal cruelty law, we would have to do it according to the law!
Now, an opportunity to push for anti-animal cruelty legislation has arrived! On October 18, 2021, the Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China issued an announcement to solicit proposals for 2022 legislative projects for the public.
1. Solicitation content
Focus Solicitation
Promote economic development to achieve new results,
Promote reform and opening up to take new steps,
Promote the new improvement of the degree of social civilization,
Promote the construction of ecological civilization to achieve new progress,
Promote people's livelihood and well-being to a new level,
Legislative project proposals for promoting new improvements in the effectiveness of national governance.
2. Solicitation requirements
When proposing legislative projects, the name of the legislative project, the necessity and feasibility of legislation, the main problems to be solved, and the main systems to be established shall be clarified.
Where conditions permit, a proposed text of the draft may be submitted or accompanied by relevant information.
Please indicate the contact person and contact information, in the name of the organ, group, enterprise or public institutions, please affix the official seal.
3. Deadline
The deadline for the call for proposals is November 19, 2021.
4. Submission method
By letter, please send it to: Rule of Law Research Bureau of the Ministry of Justice, No. 6 Chaoyangmen South Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing (Zip Code: 100020), and mark the envelope with the words "Legislative Project Proposal".
Please send it to the [email protected] by e-mail.
You can also leave a message in the Alipay app. "Alipay – Civic Center – State Council Services – I have a word to say to the Premier."
On Weibo, the topic of anti-animal cruelty legislation has received a lot of attention and discussion, and some topics have even been read by hundreds of millions of people. It can be said that the anti-animal cruelty legislation has a sufficient public opinion base.
We believe that adequate expression of public opinion will help to promote the early entry of the anti-animal cruelty law into the legislative plan.
Please take a moment to speak up for animal protection and anti-cruelty!
The world is ours. And every time we shout and speak, for those small animals that died tragically in the corner, have a meaning as heavy as Tarzan!
Write a pen and we need you to join!
(This article is reprinted with permission from the Color Earth Guardian public account)