As Animals Count, our key policies for the 2010 General Election were:
- Eliminate the failed practice of animal experimentation
- Redirect subsidies from livestock and fisheries farming to plant-based agriculture
- Phase out farming practices with poor welfare consequences for animals
- Establish an ‘NHS for animals’ to better protect the health of our animal companions
- Act on the known link between animal abuse and domestic violence, with increased penalties for those convicted of animal cruelty
- Extend the current ban on hunting with greater enforcement and stronger penalties for abuse
- A ban on ‘puppy farms’ and a ban on the sale of animals in all retail stores
- Promote healthy eating and healthy lifestyle initiatives in schools, GP practices and the workplace
- Educate children about the importance about compassion and respect towards all living beings
- A national bank to protect citizens’ savings from the destructiveness of the capital markets
- Constitutional reform with proportional representation and a fully-elected upper chamber
- Increase the minimum wage and make it available to everyone over 18 years of age
- Tax breaks for organisations committed to genuinely environmentally-friendly practices
- Increase Government support for research into and development of a ‘post-carbon’ economy