26-04-2010 Another successful campaigning weekend!

We had a really successful weekend campaigning, starting off with a speech that I gave at the World Day for Animals in Laboratories march and rally in central London.  We were very pleased to have the opportunity to address the crowd on the important issue of animal experimentation, as we recognise that the science shows us so very clearly that vivisection is of no value in the investigation of human illness and is an appalling and unjustifiable abuse of sentient, pain-sensitive beings.

The speech was very well received by the crowd, and I’ll add a link to the video once we’ve uploaded this onto YouTube.

We know that we can make great advances in our determination to see the elimination of animal experimentation by effectively communicating the evidence of science, showing how ineffective these animal studies are in helping to understand human illnesses, what a shocking waste of money these experiments represent when our Universities are desperately short of funds and, of course, on the moral level there is no justification for the deliberate infliction of sheer psychological and physical agony on these sentient beings.

I attended the social event in the evening after the march and we had some really positive support and comments from the attendees there.

People are really pleased that finally there is a political party that has a primary focus on animal protection issues with a credible, positive and achievable manifesto.

On the Sunday we held our free vet consultation event in Barnard Park, Islingon (pictures to follow!), and this was a really succesful event – despite the best intentions of the English weather to put a (literal!) dampener on proceedings!  We had two vets on site, Andrew Knight and Lucy Fish providing free external check-ups for dogs and offering general animal companion advice.  They were kept very busy throughout and I was able to talk to a good number of constituents about our policies and received lots of encouragement for what we are trying to do, and guaranteed votes for us too!