Category: Reports/Policies

NEW REPORT: BOLD ANIMAL WELFARE POLICIES CAN HELP LABOUR CONNECT WITH VOTERS

‘Winning Together’, published by the Labour Animal Welfare Society, finds that animal welfare is an important issue for voters in Labour’s target seats. 23 September 2022  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DOWNLOAD THE REPORT ‘WINNING TOGETHER’ HERE The Labour Animal Welfare Society  (LAWS) has today published ‘Winning Together: How Bold Animal Welfare Policies Can Help Labour Connect …

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New report shows devastating impact of commercial pheasant and partridge shoots

Read and download our new report here For immediate release A NEW SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF COMMERCIAL PHEASANT AND PARTRIDGE SHOOTS REVEALS THEIR DEVASTATING IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY IN THE UK. Labour Animal Welfare Society (LAWS), which commissioned the report is calling for pheasant and partridge shooting to be banned. The new report reveals …

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LAWS Submission to Labour Party Your Britain Policy Consultation

More recently, in July 2011 an ORB poll confirmed that ‘animal welfare is something that most people say is important when deciding which political party to support and for one in six (16%) it is “very important”.’ Labour has a long and proud tradition of supporting and improving the welfare of animals. Prior to the …

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LAWS Launch Local Government Charter

A billion animals are killed each year in the United Kingdom by us humans. They are either reared for food or sport, killed in the wild or experimented on before being slaughtered. All of us have a responsibility to ensure that these and the other animals in our care are treated well and killed humanely. …

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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 …

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