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BECAUSE BETTER ANIMAL PROTECTION REQUIRES A EUROPEAN SOLUTION

Animals Count EU 2009 election manifesto

4. ENVIRONMENT

Animals Count will work to:

Ban the import into the EU of livestock feed grown on cleared rainforest land.
Return the land made available by reduced farming of livestock and animal feed to forest growth, nature conservation and recreation. Reduce the use of chemicals and pesticides.
Subsidise organic vegetable farming.
Introduce marine sanctuaries in which fish and other marine sea life are protected from unsustainable fishing practices. Europe must stop overfishing and polluting the seas.
Establish a large European ecological network, including migration corridors, to help combat the adverse effects on wildlife populations of severe habitat loss.
End the shooting of animals for 'conservation' purposes. This is a highly ineffective means of achieving sustainable, balanced populations, and is morally objectionable.