Jim Barrington blogs on Labour's new animal welfare pledge

Our animal welfare consultant Jim Barrington was busy on 18th February, taking part in dozens of broadcast interviews about the 10th anniversary of the enforcement of the Hunting Act. Jim's calm and logical approach to animal welfare is always worth listening to or, in the case of this new blog post, reading. In "A curate's egg from Labour" Jim examines the Labour Party's newly launched pledge on animal welfare, finding a few things to like but others, like defending the Hunting Act, to dislike. Jim writes: "this document concentrates more on attacking activities Labour thinks are unpopular with the public. It's clearly more about attracting votes than improving animal welfare." Read the full post here.