Animal Welfare

  • Enshrine the principle of animal sentience in UK law to ensure that due regard is paid to animal welfare in policymaking. 

  • Develop safe, effective, humane, and evidence-based ways of controlling bovine TB, including by investing to produce workable vaccines.

  • Increase funding directed towards developing and validating humane alternatives to animal experimentation. 

  • Specific limits will be introduced on maximum journey times and travel conditions for all farm animals.

  • Improve standards of animal health and welfare in agriculture, including a ban on caged hens, and promote the responsible use of antimicrobials.

  • Ban unnecessarily painful practices in farming including non-anaesthetised castration, dehorning, live plucking and force feeding for foie gras.

  • Prevent abuse of racehorses and reduce avoidable deaths by creating an independent regulatory body for horse welfare.

  • Ban the use of wild animals in circuses in England and Wales, in line with existing law in Scotland.

  • Ban the sale of ivory and parts of endangered species in the UK. 

  • All meat products sold in the UK shall include clear labelling regarding the method of slaughter. Labelling to be clear if the meat is Halal or Kosher.