UK Mass Lobby Day to End Cages on the 21st October

On Tuesday, 21st October, a coalition of UK animal advocacy organisations (UK Voters for Animals, Animal Equality UK, The Humane League UK, Animal Rising, and Open Cages UK) is hosting a mass lobby day in Westminster to advocate for banning cages for farmed animals in UK. 

The opportunity: We're aiming to bring 100+ UK residents^[1] and voters to Parliament for  meetings with their MPs about legislating to ban cages for farmed animals.  The UK still confines millions of animals to cages each year: egg-laying hens, farrowing crates for sows (mother pigs), individual calf pens, and cages for other birds. 

This is a critical time in the UK, with the Government currently drafting their animal welfare strategy, a recent debate in Parliament about banning cages, high public support for our ask, and our closest trading partner, the EU, has signalled their intention to ban cages. 

Event details: We've booked a venue in Westminster where you can hang out and/or co-work throughout the day, if your job allows, and you don't want to take the whole day off work. 

No experience is needed, we will provide resources and training on how to have a productive conversation with your MP. 

Plus you will get to spend the day meeting other cool people who care about helping animals and doing good in the world! 

Next steps: If you're UK-based and interested in participating, fill in this 2-3 minute online form that generates a draft email to your MP requesting a meeting. Please forward your response from your MP to [email protected] so we can log the response and meeting time.

The mass lobby day is just under 2 months away and MPs can be notoriously slow to reply. The sooner you email, the more likely it is that you can secure a meeting. 

Please share this post and our form with your friends and family. 

If you have any questions, just leave a comment or email [email protected] and we'll get back to you!

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   Yes, residents too (I am looking at you, international students). We quite often get asked if you need to be a UK citizen to write to your MP. The answer is no, anyone who resides in the UK is a constituent of the area they live and can request a meeting with their MP.