Campaign Information & Briefings

View a selection of resources designed to provide information and detail around the campaigns from CAWF.

The £2 billion NHS windfall: Why meat reduction matters

This report published by Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation on 27th January 2024 aims to educate both policymakers and the public alike on the personal and societal benefits to eating even a fraction less meat. In this way we hope individuals can be free to make informed choices about their diets.

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Why Manifestos Matter

At the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation, we believe strongly in our manifesto proposals. Our years of experience in this area and our professional expert networks help us shape our policy asks. We know that animals matter to voters (our recent polling showed that two thirds, 64%, would feel more positively about a political party if they included a strong commitment to animal protection), we now call on the Conservative Party to show that animals do really matter to them too by including our asks in their General Election Manifesto.

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Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation 2024 Manifesto: Leading the Way for Animals

The Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation 2024 Manifesto sets out its key policy recommendations for the Conservative Party to adopt in their 2024 General Election Manifesto. The Manifesto includes exclusive polling commissioned by Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation and carried out by Opinium in June 2023. The polling shows strong public support for political parties who legislate to enhance the lives of animals, and the extent to which the public values animal welfare as a consideration when casting their vote.

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Banning Farrowing Crates – Transitioning to free farrowing to meet the welfare needs of pigs

Farrowing crates cause the greatest degree of confinement of farmed animals of any system
in the UK and European Union. The crate measures approximately 198cm x 60cm x 60cm
with a footfall (area) of 1.23m².1 This means that the sow is able to stand up and lie down,
but is unable to turn around or move freely to explore her environment. In the UK, 60% of
breeding sows are kept in crates, meaning over 200,000 sows are confined in this way

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Cleaner Fish

Lumpfish and wrasse species are remarkable animals with unique personalities and the ability for tool use. They even show some evidence of self-awareness. Relying on their
natural (yet, opportunistic) ‘cleaning’ behaviour, the aquaculture industry uses millions of them (about 15 million produced in Scotland in 2020) to eat sea lice from farmed salmon. The industry refers to them as ‘cleaner fish’, hiding their rights as individual sentient beings.

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CAWF Brexit March 2017

It is important to ensure that animal welfare is not compromised as part of the process to leave the EU and that opportunities are taken to improve existing policies and standards.

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A strong voice for Animal Welfare within the Conservative Party