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| MISCO Survey Results
When you care passionately about any subject, after a while you begin to believe that most people agree with you, and it never enters your head that you may be an extremist crank in a minority of one. |
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With this in mind we decided that it would be a good idea to find out what the great Maltese public thought about Animal Rights, to get a meaningful answer, we needed the most independent and professional method possible. The survey had to find out the truth (not what we wanted to hear) and be the result of taking the views of all sectors of Maltese society, in respect of age, gender, socio-economic, type of work/profession and residential locations. To achieve this we appointed MISCO International to undertake a full opinion poll/research project to establish what the views of the Maltese population are on Animal Rights as we enter the year 2000. MISCO are the market leader in this type of research and as well as providing surveys for most of the leading commercial groups, they also work for the Government. When the survey was complete we were called to meet MISCO to be presented with the results, this filled us with a degree of trepidation, what if we were minority extremists ? what if no one else cared ? what would we do then ? well as you can see from the summary of the results below, we need not have worried, the results are even more favourable than we could have hoped. There really is a silent majority out there who want things to improve, and this fills us with confidence. The results will also show the Politicians that Animal Lovers are a force to be listened to, and improvements in this area will be popular. To view the full results on each question, simply click on the question number. Do you think the laws of Malta are too stringent, or too lenient in so far as protection of Animals is concerned ? Too lenient – 85.8 % Let us consider that the penalty for cruelty to Animals to be around Lm5. Do you think this is too much or too little ? Too little – 63.8 % Do you think the way we treat our Animals in Malta presents a good image of our country, or a bad one ? A bad image – 58.5 % Do you think that the way we treat Birds & Wildlife in Malta presents a good image of our country, or a bad one ? A bad image – 85.0 %
Do you think that in extreme weather conditions, just like the summer months, the Karozzin horses should be provided with shelter & water whilst they are waiting for customers ? Yes – 99.3 %
Do you think the Church should provide guidance towards the rights of Animals, or do you consider this to be beyond its scope ? Should provide Guidance – 59.3 %
Do you think that schools should provide an education towards the rights of Animals ? Yes – 99.3 %
Do you agree that Animals should have rights ? Agree – 98.6 % Do you agree that all Animal Welfare should be provided by charitable organisations ? Agree – 61.3 %
Do you agree that more funding for Animal Welfare should be provided by the Government ? Agree – 82.1 % This is only a summary of the report, the full report
containing detailed statistical analysis, and full breakdown of
all the sectors questioned is available from World Animal Conscience
for LM 10. |
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