Support Animal Welfare Political Parties
All the major political parties have MPs who are focused on animal welfare (and The Green Party has some good policies).
Whereas in England, ‘fringe candidates’ are often not taken seriously, in The Netherlands, Party for the Animals has six MPs and many local councillors. This has led to national law changes, showing what a difference cane be made. Australia’s Animal Justice Party has done wonders!
The party even has its own PINK! youth movement. Can you imagine that here? A party for animal welfare in parliament, with youth leaders making changes to policy? Recent policy success include:
- A ban on the import of calves
- Restrictions on hunting wild animals
- Reduction to help stop duck farming
- No more agricultural toxins
- Requesting an animal welfare minister
Co-founder Marianne Thieme writes that when the party was first created, they were laughed at, with critics asking ‘what next – a party for bicycles?’ But the party has done great work, proving the old adage ‘first you laugh at them, then you ignore then, then you get angry – and then you join them!’
Animal Welfare Party is the UK political party, which also focuses on policies to help the environment.
The manifesto includes redirecting subsidies from livestock and fisheries to plant-based agriculture (the transfarmation project is a good example, funding financially-struggling livestock farmers with the resources and training to join the profitable local oat-milk market, leaving animals to live out their lives in peace).
Other policies include:
- Promoting plant-based agriculture
- Ending live slaughter
- Ending slaughter without stunning
- CCTV for all abattoirs
- Phasing out factory farming
- Replacing animal experiments with humane research
- Strengthening laws for the pet trade
- Increasing penalties for animal abuse
Even if you’re not into ‘joining things’ you can help by voting for local candidates in council elections, and buy an organic cotton t-shirt (made with green energy) to spread the word!
TheyWorkForYou is a fantastic open-source website (so anyone worldwide can use the software to create a similar site).
Enter your postcode to find how your MP is and how he/she has voted on animal welfare policies. Other countries with thriving animal welfare political parties include:
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics, is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato
