Global animal protection experts endorse our democratisation strategy
World Animal Net (WAN), the world’s largest network of animal protection societies which also has consultative status at the United Nations, has ‘wholeheartedly welcomed’ our proposals to achieve...
View ArticleCASJ warns government about de-regulation of companion animal breeding and...
The government’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has just finished a consultation exercise on proposed changes to the rules relating to ‘animal establishments’ –...
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CASJ response to Defra consultation on the review of animal establishments...
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Submission to House of Commons EFRA Committee Animal Welfare Inquiry
Download our submission to the House of Commons EFRA Committee Inquiry into the welfare of domestic companion animals
View ArticleCASJ asks Parliament for tougher prison sentences for animal abusers
The CASJ has submitted a hard-hitting response to the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (EFRA) inquiry into the effectiveness of the Animal Welfare Act. We’ve focussed on...
View ArticleLooming disaster for British farm animals as independent rules scrapped
UPDATE: After we published this news below, on 7th April 2016 the Government announced it was abandoning its plan to abolish statutory codes. A news update will appear on our website shortly. On...
View ArticleWhat does the EU referendum mean for animal protection?
The CASJ has been contacted by several members of the public asking for advice about voting in the EU referendum on the 23rd June 2016. The Charity Commission has issued guidance stating that charities...
View ArticleGovernment tips scales further against animal welfare
At the turn of the year, the Home Office published an official ‘Advice Note’ that purported to describe how it performed the legally required ‘ethical evaluation’ of proposed animal experimentation...
View ArticleWhat does Brexit mean for the future of animal protection?
Most UK animal welfare legislation is based on EU rules formulated with UK involvement, so Brexit has the potential to affect animal protection levels in the UK (and across the remainder of the EU)....
View ArticleThe political cat and mouse with dog welfare
Well-hidden within the unprecedented political turmoil of the past two months was an Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (EFRA Comm) session (12th July 2016), at which the Minister of State...
View ArticleHow democratic is animal activism?
We are delighted to announce that CASJ-funded PhD researcher Lucy Parry has had her first article accepted for publication in the journal Environmental Values. Lucy has been carrying out research at...
View ArticleDan Lyons podcast on the key to animal protection
The CASJ’s Dr Dan Lyons recently spoke with Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan from the University of New South Wales in Sydney for a podcast about his upcoming book chapter ‘Animal Protection Policy in the UK:...
View ArticleHow badgers came to be persecuted – but why?
Badgered to Death is Badger Trust Chief Executive Dominic Dyer’s account of the political and commercial factors behind the English badger culling policy. Dyer identifies the principal pro-cull forces...
View ArticleSeminal new book on how to turn compassionate principles into reality
The CASJ’s groundbreaking research features prominently in a pioneering new collection of essays called ‘The Political Turn in Animal Ethics’, edited by Rob Garner and Siobhan O’Sullivan, and published...
View ArticleAnimals have democratic right to political representation
A brand new CASJ-funded research article by Professor Rob Garner (University of Leicester) has just been published online by the journal Contemporary Political Theory. Entitled ‘Animals and democratic...
View ArticleCASJ PhD Student Lucy Parry gains Doctorate
We are delighted to announce that our PhD researcher at the University of Sheffield, Lucy Parry, has now successfully submitted her thesis and passed her oral exam (‘viva’) to gain her doctorate in...
View ArticleCross-party momentum for government animal protection body
The Centre for Animals and Social Justice’s major proposal for a Government Animal Protection Commission, already supported by fifteen of the UK’s leading animal advocacy groups, has now gained...
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