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In November 2017, it was reported in the press that the British Government had voted not to transfer a European protocol on animal sentience into British law. Newspaper headlines and posts on social media reported that ‘MPs vote “that animals cannot feel pain or emotions”’ (The Independent, 22 November).
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Heholt, R., Edmundson, M. (2020). Introduction. In: Heholt, R., Edmundson, M. (eds) Gothic Animals. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34540-2_1
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