Animal welfare successes in the UK for 2022
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This year was very busy for animal welfare and advocacy here in the UK. Here are some of the changes you helped make possible in 2022.
🐷 We called out UK authorities for investing in cruel factory farming.
We produced the ‘A new front for divestment campaigning’ report, that revealed the stunning scale in which local authority pension funds invest in factory farming. You helped us call on local authorities to divest money in their pension funds away from factory farming.
🦎 75,000 people ended one of the last wildlife markets in the UK.
The last cruel UK wildlife market at Doncaster Racecourse closed in June 2022, which followed a two-year campaign during which 75,000 people signed our petition highlighting severe animal welfare concerns. This included Ball pythons crammed in Tupperware and takeaway boxes, and the release of two reports showing potential illegal trading.
🥩 We conducted a study which found antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Our research found that pork from UK supermarkets and online outlets are putting both human and animal health at risk.
🐬 We told TUI UK to stop profiting from captive dolphin entertainment by...
Launching a petition calling on TUI to change their policy. Later in the year, we joined BAFTA-winning writer, Jolyon Rubinstein, to give a TUI store an ‘honest rebrand’ of their 'Live Happy' brand. Our UK team produced a video featuring Rubinstein posing as a TUI Brand Director informing employees and customers about a mock giveaway campaign playing on TUI’s ‘Live Happy’ branding, highlighting the fact that captive dolphins don’t ‘live happy’. Meanwhile, the outside of the store was rebranded with the TUI smile logo flipped upside down to show an unhappy dolphin alongside the call to #FreeTUI from animal cruelty by ending ticket sales to cruel captive dolphin venues.
💊 We released the findings of our ground-breaking public waterways investigation.
Our investigation detected superbugs in rivers near factory farms in the UK and shortly after we launched the report, 'Life-threatening superbugs: how factory farm pollution risks human health' at Parliament and called for urgent action to prevent a human health crisis caused by superbug pollution around UK factory farms. You supported our calls by emailing UK politicians to act against the overuse of antibiotics in factory farming, and within 24 hours of campaign launch, over 1,800 emails had been sent out to respective MPs.
🐷 We released new investigation footage from inside the country’s factory farms.
This continued onto our launch of our new campaign, No Future For Factory Farming, exposing the lies we’re being told about the food we eat. Alongside this we launched a new petition to the UK government demanding no more factory farms.
We are so looking forward to 2023 and achieving even more for animals in the UK and around the world. Thank you for all your support along the way.
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