Hunting and animal rights activists in Europe, supporters of animal rights parties are not very successful in the elections.
No consideration on the incompatibility of animal rights ideology with the politics of a country that claims to be democratic, but only a simple observation of the facts, which show that a party or explicitly animal rights positions do not collect consensus, indeed, they probably make them lose. According to news easily available on the web, the oldest openly animal rights party in Europe would be the "Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz", founded in Germany in 1993. It seems not to have had much luck: in a country that has almost 84 million inhabitants, in 2004 it would have it had about 1.000 members and its election results in federal elections would always have been between 0,2% and 0,5%. The "Partij voor de Dieren, PvdD", founded in 2002, would have had more luck in the Netherlands, which would also have managed to obtain two seats in the Dutch parliament, participating in four electoral competitions and obtaining 2003% in 0,5, in 2004 even 3,2%, then 2006% in 1,8 and 2010% in 1,3. In Spain, on the other hand, the "Partido Antitaurino Contra el Maltrato Animali, PACMA" was born in 2003 and would appear in various electoral competitions, between national and local, obtaining its best results in Catalonia with 0,56% of the votes.
In the United Kingdom there are two openly animal rights parties: the "Animal Welfare Party", founded in 2006, which would have participated in three electoral competitions, totaling 2008% in 1,12, 2009% in 0,8, and in 2010 0,3%, and the "Animal Protection Party, APP", founded in 2008, which would run in 2010 in four constituencies, totaling 0,2% in one and 0,3% in the other three. Also in Italy, according to the internet, there are two openly animal rights parties: the "European Animalist Party, PAE", founded in 2006, and the "Italian Animalist Party". We read that in 2012 the Secretary of the PAE would have run as a candidate with "Future and Freedom" and would have collected 214 votes in his city (who knows if among these there were also those of mom and dad! ...). Evidently the supporters of the "rights" of animals are not as many as they would like to believe!
Perhaps a more in-depth research could highlight the existence of some other micro party, in some of the 28 countries of the European Union, but what is certain and evident is that, everywhere, a party or explicitly animalist positions do not collect support. Indeed, they probably make them lose: the German Greens, who a few years ago with environmentalist and pro-hunting positions, therefore certainly not animal rights, had reached the unthinkable electoral goal of 27%, collapsed to 8% when they proposed to impose for he reads a vegan diet day at schools and public offices.
Which suggests, not only that people have very different priorities when they go to vote, but also that they are largely aware of the absurdity and danger of animal rights. able on their own to formulate, articulate and defend a conception of their own interests. I force that people who assign themselves the mandate to do so for them will only be able to act to the detriment of other people. It is no coincidence that the rhetoric pro "rights "Of animals often" enriches "with racist stereotypes against different categories of people who are considered antagonistic to their design).
The big animal rights associations with millionaire budgets know these things well, and have always avoided giving themselves a precise political position precisely to avoid their real, small, electoral "weight" from being revealed, a fact that would inevitably destroy their ability to act. lobbying. These are the facts. For the rest, everyone should make their own considerations ... FederFauna, for its part, as soon as the names of all the candidates are available, as it has already done in the past, will try to give indications to its members and supporters on the curriculum of each.
FederFauna
6 April 2014