 Welcome to the next section of my review of the Forbidden Manifesto of 2020 and today I've got my manifesto here again. Here it is. Have a read. Best manifesto in the country by far I promise you and today I'm going to cover animal welfare and as you may know this is something that is very close to my heart. I started out my very first political issue actually that I cared about and I was young 10 or 11 at the time. It was the first political issue I ever cared about and this was in the 80s when there was a lot of discussion about testing on animals testing cosmetics on animals for example and some of the biggest in the 80s some of the biggest cosmetics producers in the world simultaneously stopped testing on animals and yet all these years later they remain the biggest cosmetics companies in the world and that tells me that all that's offering of animals was completely unnecessary. So as with the previous videos I'm going to read through the read through the manifesto and offer some comments on it. So let's start. Forbidden cares deeply about all life within this country and we believe that as an animal loving nation we have fallen fell in recent years and have allowed unnecessary and grotesque cruelty to be committed against animal life which most certainly have and among that probably front and centre on that is religious slaughter and as you know forbidden takes this matter very very seriously this again is another example of extreme cruelty to animals that is completely unnecessary. Manifesto goes on forbidden is very concerned for example about the proliferation of religious unstunned slaughter of farm animals in contravention to animal protection laws. Those animal protection laws are the requirement the legal requirement that animals be stunned to unconsciousness prior to slaughter. Those laws have a religious exemption which in my mind makes them completely toothless. What is the point of them if you allow the people who want to do it in the name of religion to carry on doing it. Halal slaughter i.e. unstun slaughter in accordance with Islamic ritual is now served routinely in British schools, hospitals, government buildings and sporting venues. Kosher meat from animals slaughtered in accordance with Jewish tradition also involves cutting the throat of a conscious animal. British law requires animals to be stunned to unconsciousness prior to slaughter but allows for a religious exemption. Now I'm often asked about Kosher versus Halal. I'm quite clear and the manifesto was quite clear any unstunned slaughter should be prohibited but there is a huge difference between Kosher and Halal in the demand for it. First of all Muslims vastly outnumbered Jews in this country and the Kosher market is tiny in comparison to the Halal market but even more significantly than that Kosher is not imposed upon us all. You will not find Kosher being served exclusively in schools, in hospitals, sporting venues etc etc etc Kosher is not imposed on the wider public. Halal is and that by the way is crucial a crucial difference. There's also the issue of Halal certification and what that basically means it's probably obvious but jihadi groups some of them aren't jihadi groups or at least ideological jihad groups I suspect some involved in terrorism as well but islamists to be to give them the kindest most moderate name I can give them islamist groups provide certification to major companies saying that they are Halal that they can be eaten by Muslims. Now huge companies are paying out of fortune to these jihadi groups to certify their products Halal because they want to tap in to the Muslim market. Where is that money going? None of this applies to Kosher either so for those of you who are going to shout Kosher at me I'm explaining now why we are more emphasis is placed on Halal than Kosher. Here's one of the reasons Halal certification is now commonplace and is often applied to non-meat products and it's another crucial point. When we talk about Kosher we're talking about meat on Stan Slot and when we talk about Halal we're talking about putting labels on absolutely all kinds of food produce to say that Muslims can eat it why you know it's clearly clearly a certification money raising racket certification that a product is permissible to Muslims is obtained by major companies from various islamic advocacy groups on payment of a fee slash tax and we have little insight into how that money is used this is crucial it's so so so important we go on for Britain believes that all unnecessary suffering of animals should be legally prevented we understand the natural order of things and that of course animals prey on each other in nature however unnecessary entrapment pain suffering caused by humans should be brought to an end and respect for animals promoted for Britain also understands that meat is a staple of the British diet and that farming is the backbone of food production we therefore seek to reform farming working with British farmers towards a reprioritisation of organic and natural farming methods and an end to factory farming I actually believe that most farmers in this country would like to see us go in that direction a lot of this and I'm going to be doing a book review this week of how in the 90s regulation from the European Union destroyed small business and small farming and created in effect factory farming I'll cover that later this week but I do believe that factory are that farmers will be happily happy to go along with this happy to walk with us and I make this appeal to farming groups we are we are going to be getting in touch with you over the coming weeks if any farmers are watching this do get in touch amary.waters at forbritain.uk if you're a farmer who's concerned about the state of farming at the state of animal welfare in regards to farming please do give us a shout we really do want to hear from you and also if you have concerns about halal do get in touch finally experimentation on animals which is often entirely unnecessary should be severely restricted and only permitted when it can be shown that animal suffering will be minimized and that the experimentation is needed for tightly regulated medical reasons now this I've had some people right to me about this expressing some concern about medical experimentation on animals I do understand that a lot of it is unnecessary and it's simply to generate money for certain university departments or scientific research and actually animals are being bred for experiments which we've already got the answers to but it's just to keep to keep generating money this needs to be looked at very very carefully but to rule out all animal experimentation at this point I think would be a mistake but we certainly need major major reform and we need to be sure that animals are not being bred into existence simply to be tortured to answer a question about science or psychology that we already know the answer to animals should not be subjected to experiments for the purposes of commercial gain or the production of cosmetics or household products once again as we discovered in the 80s cosmetics major cosmetics companies stopped testing on animals and their revenue did not go down in fact in many cases it went up so let's go through the list for britain will and all unstun slaughter without exception hold a public public inquiry into the certification of halal products we want to know where this money is going I know where it's going but the evidence is thin on the ground as is so often the case reform the dairy industry that's so that cattle can roam freely as much as possible and have access to their calves actively protect greenfield sites and promote the protection of wildlife incentivize free range egg production so that the caging of hens is phased out in the near future and testing on animals for cosmetics or other commercial non-medical products ban the export of animals from the uk now this one I know has a lot of public support we know that animals undertake a force to undertake hours and hours and hours of excruciatingly painful journeys to reach abattoirs across europe for example I have never understood why it is that the animal can't be slaughtered close to its environment where it where it is being raised and then shipped abroad I don't understand this there's no reason for it it must change these animals are crying out this is a horrific horrific torturous end for these animals and they've done nothing nothing to deserve this it is horrifically cruel and it must stop ban the production of veal and this one's a little bit controversial and I understand that there may be a little bit of drawback on that one veal crates already banned and to to explain to you what veal is veal is is overwhelmingly the meat from the calf which is taken from the dairy cow now the dairy cow must be like humans must be pregnant to produce milk and dairy cows are therefore essentially always pregnant or pregnant again and again and again to to to keep them producing milk the calf she produces is taken away and until the veal crates were banned in Europe placed into a tiny crate in which the animal can't turn around or move and it spends its short life imprisoned in this tiny crate it it has an effect on the meat it makes the meat more tender that this poor animal isn't able to move um it's horrifically cruel now as well as the crates themselves there is no need for this there are ways if we just tried to find them and this is where I'm asking farmers for help if we try to find ways that we can still milk cows without taking her calf and torturing it to death in this way and I and you may think my language is inflammatory but it isn't that is exactly what is happening we must stop this excessively cruel and completely unnecessary meat production support current proposals to end the import of four products to the united kingdom introduce strict criminal penalties including deportation for non-british citizens for those found guilty of the above or other severe abuses of animals ban those found guilty of animal cruelty abuse abuse or neglect from animal ownership for life ban the use of animals in circuses or other forms of entertainment with which the animal is subjected to pain or suffering fully investigate badger calling with the aim of bringing it to an end you know a lot of people don't consider animal welfare to be an important issue I think it is an absolutely vital issue because it reminds us or should remind us of our humanity human beings are the most powerful animal on this planet by virtue of our intelligence which is both a blessing and a course in many respects but by virtue of our intelligence we do have extreme and supreme power on this planet and how we treat the creatures the living sentient creatures beneath us demonstrates who and what we are as human beings and I think that is very important we hold a the whip hand over animals and how we decide to treat them determines our compassion our mercy our civilization who we are as human beings I want us to be a power that expresses mercy and compassion and not with indifference imposes grotesque unnecessary suffering upon sentient creatures and I know that the majority of decent British people agree if you agree get on board with for Britain this is the most comprehensive animal welfare policy that has ever been put together in this country if you care about animals and I know millions of you do for Britain is it we are your only option we're serious about this it matters join us