Counting animals and, hopefully, votes

I’ve been a bit slow reporting this, but yesterday a political party was launched in London dedicated to the plight of animals. Needless to say, vegans, and some good vegan grub, were in abundance – along with plenty of animal-friendly discussion (I wasn’t actually there, I’m lifting from the BBC report). I’m not sure of the potential success for a political party that doesn’t address human issues, (I can’t see them winning power), but animal rights definitely needs some mainstream representation and as such this seems like a good idea. Hopefully it can bring animal rights groups back from the brink of terrorism and into the arena of reasonable public debate. Despite the understandable anger many activists feel, a more measured approach will achieve a lot more. At the moment it’s too easy for politicians to dismiss animal rights as the domain of long-haired loonies. So, yeah, vote Animals Count.