Why not join in and support our campaign by wearing our excellent T-Shirts? The T-Shirts are Fair Trade and come in sizes XL,L and M. Printed Black on a Yellow T.Shirt. They cost £8 each plus £2.00p towards postage and packing. Special price for buying 5 or more £7.00p each. If you’d like to order… Continue reading »
LAWS Reception – Labour Party Conference 2011
“Animal Welfare is Part of a Good Society” Monday 26 September 2011 Sefton Room, Adelphi Hotel, Ranlagh Place, Liverpool L3 5UL. Commencing with the reception at 6.30pm Chair: Baroness Anita Gale, Vice-Chair LAWS Speakers: Mary Creagh MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. (DEFRA) Kerry McCarthy MP Bristol East Shadow Economic… Continue reading »
LAWS Conference Karaoke
The famous LAWS Karaoke will return this conference on Monday 26 September 2011,Sefotn Room, Adelphi Hotel, Ranlagh Place, Liverpool L3 5UL between 8.30pm to 1.00am. All welcome – ability to sing not compulsory. Come and join the fun.
LAWS at Labour Conference 2011
We shall be exhibiting as usual at this year’s Labour Party Annual Conference. If you are attending conference then please visit us on: Our Stall – LAWS Stand No.149.
New LAWS policy document
Following the Policy Conference held last October, and after a series of consultations we now have a new LAWS policy document – a PDF of which can be downloaded by clicking the image below. We would like to thank Mark Glover for the work he did in presenting and producing the draft document at the… Continue reading »
Europe Bans Seal Import
Mark Glover, Respect for Animals Each year hundreds of thousands of seals are killed in countries such as Canada and Namibia for their fur and many of the products of these hunts are imported into the EU. On 23 July 2008 the European Commission introduced a draft proposal to ban the import of and trade… Continue reading »
Animal News from Wales
Lorriane Barrett AM is a member of the Welsh Assembly. It’s been a while since my last article in Impact; but as they say a week is a long time in politics – so as you can imagine there’s quite a bit to report. We have seen some really positive developments on the Animal Welfare… Continue reading »
Minister Says No to Badger Cull
Wally Burley, LAWS This is great news and the Labour Animal Welfare Society is delighted with the decision of Labour Minister, Hilary Benn. A decision we have been calling for over a long period of time. Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for the Environment, told the House of Commons that even large scale culling of… Continue reading »
Compassionate Conservatives?
Angela Smith is the Labour MP for Basildon & East Thurrock. If we want to keep wild animals safe from hunts, we must first keep David Cameron and his Conservatives out of power. Mahatma Ghandi said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way that its animals are… Continue reading »
Beauty in the Battery Hen
Oliver Edwards Many will be familiar with the phasing out of battery cages for hens; a culmination of much hard work by animal welfare charities. Moving away from the appalling ‘factory line’ conditions can only be a positive step. What fewer may be aware of is that over the next few years this welcome change… Continue reading »
