The Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation launches its new Fish Welfare report. The UK was one of the first countries to introduce animal welfare legislation. However, fish have typically been left out of this progress.
I urge the Government to fulfil our manifesto pledge to ban live animal exports as I outlined in the House of Commons of Friday 23rd October 2020.
Chickens are “dying like flies” in their millions while being transported from farms to abattoirs because of poorly ventilated lorries, a whistleblower has told the Guardian.
One of two livestock ships at sea since mid-December with thousands of cattle on board is now at the Spanish port of Cartagena, but the fate of its cargo is unclear.
Andrew Rosindell MP is introducing to Parliament legislation that would place strict limits on the ability of landlords to include “no pets” policies in rented accommodation.
There are 500,000 sows in the UK, 55% are caged. The crates severely restrict the sow’s movement and her strong instinct to build a nest before giving birth.
“Lorraine Platt, the co-founder of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation, the influential network of which Prime Minister’s fiancée Carrie Symonds is a member has been part of the protests.”
Telegraph Feb 10th 2021
MP Chris Loder: “We are one step closer to tougher sentencing for those who commit the worst kinds of cruelty on innocent animals.”
Sir David Amess (Patron of CAWF) opened a debate on animal charities and the impact of the pandemic.
Boris Johnson vows to ‘take a stand’ against Japanese whale killing
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s gives an address to the One Planet Summit.
Supertrawlers will be free to plunder Britain’s waters post-Brexit, Government sources have admitted.
As 2020 draws to a close, a year unlike any other for all of us, we would like to wish you a Happy Festive Season and a joyful, peaceful New Year.
The Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation (CAWF) are delighted to welcome Chris Loder MP as a Patron.
Foreign Secretary The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP officially new office in Hampton Court.
The Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation welcomes the Government’s announcement of the consultation.
Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation welcomes the release of the Agricultural Transition Plan 2021 to 2024
Theresa Villiers, patron of CAWF, is a former Environment Secretary, and is MP for Chipping Barnet.
Celebrities, MPs and British public call on the PM to support a wildlife trade ban at G20 meeting of global leaders.
It will provide scrutiny and it will report to Parliament on each new trade deal and help ensure our standards are not undermined in new trade deals.
“Two areas of animal welfare concern should be firmly on our list of priorities as the nation’s Parliament. The first is live animal exports…and non-stun slaughter.”
Success! Chris Loder’s Private Members Bill on Animal Welfare (Sentencing) has passed its second reading.
Livestock from the UK is being shipped to the Middle East and slaughtered in “dreadful, terrifying” ways, animal welfare charities claim.
Campaigners argued that the journeys were unlawful because calves went more than nine hours without being fed.
The Lords Amendment No.16 sought to ensure that the UK’s animal welfare, environmental and food safety standards would have to be met by any imported products entering the country.
A highly important addition designed to uphold and protect our animal welfare and environmental standards as we head into trade deals.
‘Animal Welfare Matters’ Film Release At Our Fringe At The Conservative Party Conference On 4 October – World Animal Day
Amendment to the Agriculture Bill to end live exports for slaughter and fattening tabled by Conservative Peer Baroness Fookes, House of Lords – July 23 2020
Patrons Sir Roger Gale and Sir David Amess urge for an end to live animal exports – The Independent, June 2020
Campaign to End Wildlife Trade (CEWT) urge PM to act on cause of Coronavirus and end global wildlife trade
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