Labour . . . will support a Royal Commission to review the effectiveness and justification of animal experiments, and to examine alternatives . . . We will also ban the LD50 test . . . Labour is against the killing of badgers and the destruction of their setts . . . Labour wants our countryside to become ecologically richer, more varied . . . We believe that the provisions of the Zoo Licensing Act should apply to circuses . . .
Labour is strongly opposed to the so-called sport of hunting with hounds . . .
Not one Labour member has voted against attempts to abolish hunting with hounds . . . We would also support European moves to ban bullfighting and other cruel rituals . Bear farms , where bile is extracted and paws amputated from live captive bears, should be shut down. We oppose cruel exploitation of animals in holiday resorts. We also aim to stop the mass shooting of protected migrating birds .