{"pk":3215,"title":"Vote for Animals Count","description":"- Eliminate the failed practice of animal experimentation\r\n- Redirect subsidies from livestock and fisheries farming to plant-based agriculture\r\n- Phase out farming practices with poor welfare consequences for animals\r\n- Establish an ‘NHS for animals’ to better protect the health of our animal companions\r\n- Act on the known link between animal abuse and domestic violence, with increased penalties for those convicted of animal cruelty\r\n- Extend the current ban on hunting with greater enforcement and stronger penalties for abuse\r\n- A ban on ‘puppy farms’ and a ban on the sale of animals in all retail stores\r\n- Promote healthy eating and healthy lifestyle initiatives in schools, GP practices and the workplace\r\n- Educate children about the importance about compassion and respect towards all living beings\r\n- A national bank to protect citizens’ savings from the destructiveness of the capital markets\r\n- Constitutional reform with proportional representation and a fully-elected upper chamber\r\n- Increase the minimum wage and make it available to everyone over 18 years of age\r\n- Tax breaks for organisations committed to genuinely environmentally-friendly practices\r\n- Increase Government support for research into and development of a ‘post-carbon’ economy\r\n","party":{"party_id":"party:616","party_name":"Animal Welfare Party"},"people":[],"images":[{"image":"https://images.electionleaflets.org/leaflets/e182018fc7ba568e7a8f61dc5c949aa7.jpg","image_type":null},{"image":"https://images.electionleaflets.org/leaflets/c6eae0f8ae317f86dc71aa8fce064fcb.jpg","image_type":null}],"first_page_thumb":"https://images.electionleaflets.org/thumbs/350/leaflets/e182018fc7ba568e7a8f61dc5c949aa7.png","date_uploaded":"2010-04-26T16:28:11+01:00","date_delivered":"2010-04-26T00:00:00+01:00","status":"live"}