Labour Animal Welfare Society (LAWS) is affiliated with the Labour Party as an official Socialist Society. We are a home for the many Labour members passionate about animal welfare and we support the Labour Party on understanding the key issues for animal welfare.
If you’re a Labour member and want to join LAWS, you can do so here. This allows you to support our work and get involved with our efforts to champion animal welfare.
Labour Animal Welfare Society is pleased to share statements from candidates for Deputy Leader. As in previous leadership contests, we invite all candidates to set out their priorities for animals and animal welfare. The statements are published in alphabetical order. LAWS will not endorse or nominate a candidate in this process, although as a Socialist …
It’s that time of year again: next week we’ll be in Liverpool, working hard to push animal welfare at Labour Conference. LAWS will be exhibiting throughout Conference at Stand E10 in the main exhibition hall. If you’re attending, please come and say hello, pick up materials and a plant-based chocolate, and hear how we can help deliver the biggest boost …
A new campaign has been launched to ban male chick culling in the UK, which LAWS is proud to support. Here is an overview of this shocking practice and the campaign, written for LAWS by Jenny Canham of the Vegetarian Society. The UK is currently falling behind other European countries and risking its reputation as …
Greyhound racing will be banned “as soon as practically possible”, the Labour-led Welsh government has said. Senior Labour figures announced the ban “as soon as practically possible”, adding it was not “impossible” before the next Senedd election in 2026. Greyhound racing has been sharply criticised for harming dogs. The BBC reported that ministers had been under …
