Animal Welfare Party is delighted that 438 out of 687 MEPs have today voted to end EU subsidies for bullfighting – currently totalling around €129 million per year.

An estimated 129.6 million euros per year in subsidies are currently spent on rearing bulls for bullfighting. Political parties for animals, including Animal Welfare Party and animal campaigners around the world have long argued that bullfighting has no place in modern society and that such subsidies cannot be justified. AWP is delighted that a majority of MEPs have today voted in …

Animal Welfare Party finds very little to celebrate in today’s release by the Home Office of statistics showing an apparent ‘drop’ in the number of animal experiments performed in the UK in 2014.

Statistics may appear to show a 6% drop in the number of experiments performed but,
in response to an EU directive, the way the Home Office collects figures has changed – meaning comparisons with figures from previous years are actually difficult to make. Tests are now counted when they conclude, instead of when they …