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NORWEGIAN POLICE IS creating a unit to investigate cruelty to animals, the government said this week, arguing that those who hurt animals often harm people too.
“First of all, it’s important to take care of our animals, so that they enjoy the rights they have and that there be a follow-up when their rights are violated,” Agriculture Minister Sylvi Listhaug said, describing animals at risk as “often defenceless”.
The initiative “can also help fight crime and attacks against people, since studies show that some of those people who commit crimes and misdemeanors against animals also do the same to people,” Listhaug said.
The initiative will be tested out for three years.
Police in the western county of Sor-Trondelag will appoint three people – an investigator, a legal expert and a coordinator – to fight animal abuse.
Animal rights groups hailed the initiative.
“The process of taking animal abuse seriously has begun,” said Siri Martinsen of the animal rights’ group Noah.
In 2014, 38 cases of animal abuse were reported to police in Norway, according to public radio and television NRK.
Under Norwegian law, acts of animal abuse carry a maximum sentence of three years in prison.
Similar animal rights police units operate in the Netherlands and in Sweden.
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Really wish they would make the packaging more eco friendly. Giant plastic bowl for a salad. What’s wrong with cardboard like other salad outlets
@john Appleseed: What’s wrong with cardboard is that it quickly becomes damp and gross and disgusting unless your salad or sandwich is bone dry
Maybe Neil but we can’t possibly maintain this level of waste. We are drowning in plastic. Choking our seas, killing our wildlife but not a slightly damp salad?
Stick it in the recycling bin John, job done, easy isn’t it.
Most workplaces don’t have recycling bins. The bins are the street aren’t recycled and I suspect very little of what goes into the recycling bin is actually recycled. If it were easy we wouldn’t have so much plastic waste in our seas and landfills.
Eat the food, delight in it’s tasty goodness, close the plastic container and take it somewhere there is a recycling bin. Or ask your grown up to do it for you after they’ve spoon fed you your tasty food.
No need to be a facetious díck
@Neal, not Neil.: You are wrong there mate, milk is sold in a carboard container.
@john Appleseed: no need to be a moaning tree hugging hippy either… but there you go
No need to moan that just because something isn’t convenient for you then it’s not an option. If a bin isn’t provided for you diddums, find one. Take responsibility.
@Chris Kirk: hmm, if you think that a milk carton is just cardboard, then I am afraid that you need to read up on things a bit more.
@john Appleseed: why don’t you just bring an empty container/tupperware from home and ask them to use that? Zero waste!
This Chopped food is really good value and very tasty. Saw them in Dublin Airport first then Whitewater in Newbridge and it’s well worth the try. Very positive to see them make a success of their business and now expanding.
They’re on to a good thing – salads are decent value and actually fill you up
Unless the Irish public spend more on food this move doesn’t create more jobs for the Irish Economy as a whole, all it does is fragment the industry even further. An economy generates wealth when one produces something that is exported.
@Sara Elia López: an economy generates wealth when the profits of a business are not exported to a foreign country. Chopped profits > burgerking profits, for ireland. Thanks for the b0ll0xology economics lesson though.
@Zx5vZulB: it’s actually not ya dope. I was referring to Irish companies exporting. Again if the economy as a whole doesn’t spend more on food it doesnt create jobs. Read an economic textbook ya tool
@Sara Elia López: now you two play nice. Gar you should apologize.
@Sara Elia López: Actually there are plenty of people who will spend money on a salad who might not spend money otherwise. Too many places are full of unhealthy fast food and stodgy heavy precooked meals. If there is a healthy alternative I’d actually choose to buy food rather then not bother. I’m sure there are many others like me out there. Also money will be generated in the economy via new jobs whether full time or part time allowing extra spending and hopefully less social welfare. Then there is the suppliers, rent paid on premises, money spent on marketing etc. Profit cannot be simplified to some sort of food equation related to the amount of population and how much they eat.
@Sara Elia López: but think about the benefits to the taxpayer if people take a liking to better food? Don’t be so negative all the time
@Sara Elia López: ah so you were not commenting on the article, thank goodmess for random input from economics professors.
Again it great for an irish company to take market share from fast food outlets who funnel profits back to the states
This is good news in a sense.
The article fails to mention some basics though.
1. What is the split between full time and part time in the new jobs?
2. Will Chopped be using zero hour contracts or does it respect human rights?
3. Will Chopped be paying minimum wage or living wage to its staff.
When you bear in mind that capitalism is as depraved a system as communism was then these are basic questions.
I’m sure they’ll let you know that before you personally sign off the funding….
@canuckandgo:
Agreed – companies work practices, employment conditions and contract types need to be publicly acknowledged when discussing them.
I have no knowledge if Chopped engages in cancer capitalism and if it engages in human rights abuses of its current staff through the use of zero hour contracts,.
This information that it is in the public interest to know however.
@mursim: you’re right. These companies are creating a race to the bottom.
@mursim: Are you a public servant or a student?
I love people that seem to have Chopped food every lunch time – never lose weight because they are going home in the evening having chicken balls and chips
@Donnacha Bhoicaire:
Not to mention the “healthy” size portions they order at Chopped
Great news. Usually it’s the other way around with British stores opening here and all profits heading to London
7 Euro for a giant plastic bowl full of leaves. Not saying it’s not nice or healthy, it’s just a rip off!! Better value healthy options out there.
Nothing coming to Limerick city again
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