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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy
@animallaweurope.bsky.social
• Achieving better treatment for animals • The first think-and-do-tank specializing in #AnimalLaw & policy based in Brussels, Belgium ▸ https://animallaweurope.org/
🐟 A resolution adopted by @europarl.europa.eu last week calls for more science on aquatic #AnimalWelfare.

🚫 But last year, @ec.europa.eu dropped plans to ask @efsa.europa.eu for fish welfare opinions.

❓ Will the Commission finally act for fish?

🔗 Read the resolution → tinyurl.com/4y8dvkke
September 23, 2026 at 2:58 PM
🐷 We want @ec.europa.eu to propose – and co-legislators to adopt – a ban on sow stalls and farrowing crates.

📚 Our White Paper finds that the #AnimalWelfare gains could be 40x the costs.

🔗 Read it here → tinyurl.com/3btszmjc

#PigWelfare #BanFarrowingCrates #freefarrowing #EndtheCageAge
September 22, 2026 at 11:03 AM
🐖 Our new White Paper, “Reforming Pig Welfare in the European Union: The Case for a Cage-Free Future,” was cited in a @brusselstimes.com article about the slaughter of sheep and pigs.

🔗Read it here → www.brusselstimes.com/belgium-news...
September 18, 2026 at 1:12 PM
🗓️ 6 years since @ec.europa.eu promised to revise #AnimalWelfare laws – but what do we have?

🚫 A stalled transport file, cage-free promises & a vague fur pledge.

🐾 If @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu's #SOTEU acts as a litmus test of political priorities, this will be a poorer term for animals than ever.
September 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
🇵🇱 We’re at @anima-int.bsky.social's CARE Conference 2026 in Warsaw this week.

🐖 It gathers together animal advocates from all across the globe, particularly Europe, to discuss how to best advance the treatment of animals.

🔗More information → careconf.eu
September 16, 2026 at 7:14 AM
🏆 We’re honored to be named “promising Belgian charity of 2026” by Effectief Geven!

📸 Pictured here are Gabriela Kubíková, @alicediconcetto.bsky.social & Mathieu Spillebeen at the presentation of the certificate in Brussels.

🙏 Thank you to our donors & supporters for making what we do possible.
September 15, 2026 at 8:17 AM
📑 #StopTheGrind & @seashepherdglobal.bsky.social have published a comprehensive report about the Faroe Islands’ “grindadráp.”

🐋 Around 1100 to 1200 cetaceans a year are killed in a cultural practice upheld at the cost of immense animal suffering.

🔗Distressing reading here → tinyurl.com/ymtcza5u
September 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
🇪🇺 Our Legal Advocacy Manager, Hugo Menotti-Valloir, discusses the crucial role of EU law in advancing #AnimalWelfare law in Europe.

🐶 Hugo also mentioned recent positive developments in EU law, such as the new legislation on the welfare of cats and dogs.

🔗Watch here → tinyurl.com/3nsttr6k
Comprendre la législation européenne sur la protection animale
Qui décide des lois qui protègent les animaux en Europe ? Quel rôle joue la France dans ce cadre ? Le droit animalier progresse-t-il lentement ? Hugo Menotti-Valloir, responsable des affaires publiques et juridiques au sein du European Institute for Animal Law & Policy, présente le cadre législatif européen relatif à la protection animale. Bon visionnage ! 🌐Notre site internet : https://chaire-bea.vetagro-sup.fr/ 🔻Nos réseaux sociaux 🔻 LinkedIn : https://fr.linkedin.com/company/chaire-bien-être-animal Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/chairebienetreanimal/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/chairebea Questions : 0:00 : Présentation 0:28 : État des lieux des lois protégeant les animaux dans l'UE 1:09 : Les textes en cours et les blocages politiques 2:27 : La complexité des procédures et les limites structurelles de l'UE 3:14 : Rôle des États membres et du contentieux 4:06 : La position de la France
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September 8, 2026 at 4:19 PM
🐖 Female pigs spend ~160 days a year in cages so small they can't even turn around.

🚫 The EU can end this.

📕Our new White Paper analyzes the economic impact of transitioning to free farrowing & shows that costs are small relative to #AnimalWelfare gains.

🔗Read it here → tinyurl.com/3btszmjc
September 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
📗 In Volume 32.2 of the Animal Law Review, @alicediconcetto.bsky.social highlights the significant shortcomings of EU farmed #AnimalWelfare legislation.

🔗Visit → tinyurl.com/bdddwmdy for print copies, or to request access to older articles.

#animallaw #animalprotection #lawschool
September 1, 2026 at 11:37 AM
📕 A new @ciwf.org report explores Atlantic bluefin tuna farming & its impact on #AnimalWelfare, marine ecosystems & food security.

🐟 Wild tuna are confined in sea cages, suffering injuries including fin damage, skin erosion & eye loss.

🔗Read the report → tinyurl.com/m8tnab96
August 31, 2026 at 9:57 AM
🐾 Stay on top of EU #AnimalLaw!

⚖️ Get the latest legislation, court rulings, events & publications – plus global updates – every 2 months.

📥 Subscribe to our e-newsletter → animallaweurope.substack.com
August 27, 2026 at 11:25 AM
🇸🇪 In Sweden, Christian Democrat "meat extremists" are railing against advice to eat less red meat and calling school veggie days "anti-feminist."
🥩 Meanwhile, Finland is reducing meat in public institutions
🐖 And Denmark is ditching its image as the EU’s bacon factory!
August 25, 2026 at 10:34 AM
🫏 Planning to visit an animal sanctuary while on holiday? Choose carefully.

🔍 Before you go, check if it's accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.

🛡️ They list genuine sanctuaries & rescue centres, not exploitative attractions.

🔗 sanctuaryfederation.org
August 20, 2026 at 9:14 AM
🐎 In EU holiday hotspots, equids suffer to give tourists a “real” experience.

☀️Malta’s horses pull heavy carriages in stressful conditions, & Santorini’s donkeys trek up steep, hot paths.

✒️ Please sign today:
🇲🇹 → tinyurl.com/bdteerve
🇬🇷 → tinyurl.com/3h5ynkzp
August 18, 2026 at 8:59 AM
🐥 Gabriela Kubíková has an article on the Coller Animal Law Forum (CALF) website about chick culling.

🚫 Millions of day-old chicks and ducklings are killed each year, despite viable alternatives.

🇪🇺 It's time for an EU-wide ban.

🔗Read it here → tinyurl.com/44jb4vz5

#AnimalWelfare
August 12, 2026 at 8:20 AM
🐯 What prevents the full realisation of animals’ moral status, & how can those barriers be overcome?

🇬🇧 The 11th Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Summer School is exploring this and other topics this week.

🗨️ @alicediconcetto.bsky.social & @gabrielakubikova.bsky.social are among the speakers.
August 4, 2026 at 2:33 PM
🏆 @ec.europa.eu is set to ban fishing in more marine protected areas in the Baltic Sea.

🐟 After a request from Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Finland, fishing will be prohibited in 6 more #Natura2000 sites.

🔗 Delegated act here → tinyurl.com/3ctp4vs5
July 31, 2026 at 1:27 PM
🦠 New research links giant chicken farms to the spread of campylobacter, the leading bacterial cause of food poisoning.

🐔 Crowded factory farms raise serious #AnimalWelfare concerns while accelerating zoonotic diseases & #Antimicrobialresistance.

🔗 More from @pnas.org → tinyurl.com/bdfurxk7
July 29, 2026 at 10:27 AM
🇳🇱 300 million chickens a year will be protected from being caught by the legs in the Netherlands.

🐔 Thanks to NGO @wakkerdier.bsky.social, the country's highest court has closed a legal loophole in the EU ban.

🚫 Farms must switch to more humane catching methods by 1 January 2027.

#AnimalWelfare
July 27, 2026 at 1:57 PM
🥛 Europe’s dairy supply is 2.5× higher than anywhere else.

🐄 This drives selective breeding for extreme yields, shorter lives, & separating calves and mothers – much of it needlessly.

🚨 @ec.europa.eu's Commission’s Livestock Strategy must do more.

🔗 tinyurl.com/5n8fy7kj

#AnimalWelfare
July 24, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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🐙 MAJOR WIN FOR OCTOPUSES! 🎉

Nueva Pescanova has just abandoned plans for the world’s first octopus farm in Gran Canaria, Spain.

This victory follows 5 years of campaigning:
🔎 3 major reports
✉️ 43,000+ supporter emails
✍️ 130+ NGO & scientist signatures
#KeepThemWild #StopOctopusFarming
July 23, 2026 at 11:34 AM
🍽️ Adopting the #EATLancet Planetary Health Diet by 2050 could mean:

🐐 400M fewer cows, sheep & goats farmed
🌍6% less land used for farming
💨85% less land-use CO₂ emissions, & lower methane
💦 Less water & fertilizer use

🔗 Read the Nature study → tinyurl.com/2vsjx7d6

#AnimalWelfare #FoodSystems
July 21, 2026 at 3:51 PM
💬Gabriela Kubíková is quoted in an article by @zdboren.bsky.social, “Inside Big Ag’s plot to kill the EU Green Deal,” published in Grilled.

⌛COPA-COGECA's tactics were “a smokescreen to justify delays in implementation,” postponing real change in farming practices.

🔗 Read it → tinyurl.com/ycxavpa2
July 17, 2026 at 10:54 AM
💬Our Legislative Advocacy Manager, Gabriela Kubíková, was quoted in a @brusselstimes.com article on @ec.europa.eu's Livestock Strategy.

🐄 “In an ideal world, any ‘livestock’ strategy would propose a ban on factory farming,” she said.

🔗 Read the article → tinyurl.com/yc48xzr8

#AnimalWelfare
July 15, 2026 at 7:46 AM