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- 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.