A strong voice for Animal Welfare within Politics
A strong voice for Animal Welfare within Politics
The Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF) was established to raise awareness on the lives of billions of animals reared on intensive farms around the world and how this impacts upon animal welfare, the environment and people’s health. We want to highlight the action people can take to help advance farm animal welfare.
The Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF) welcomes the Government’s consultation on the use of cages for laying hens as an important opportunity to address one of the most persistent animal welfare concerns in industrial farming.
‘Laying hens and lambs will benefit from better animal welfare standards under detailed plans set out by the Government today (January 12th).
The Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF) welcomes the Animal Welfare Strategy and its stated priorities, including consultation on phasing out cages in farming, moving away from the use of carbon dioxide (CO₂) to stun pigs, and introducing standards for the humane killing of farmed fish. The Strategy also proposes measures to address loopholes in the regulation of dog and cat breeding, ban snare traps, and introduce a close season for hares
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A free ebook written by our Patron John Flack (fmr MEP) and fmr Vice President of the European Parliament Animal Welfare Intergroup.
The central idea of this book is to encourage you to stop and think about the way mankind treats and mis-treats animals both in the United Kingdom, and the wider EU plus give a few selected examples from around the world.
