🚫 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
🚫 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
📚 Our White Paper finds that the #AnimalWelfare gains could be 40x the costs.
🔗 Read it here → tinyurl.com/3btszmjc
#PigWelfare #BanFarrowingCrates #freefarrowing #EndtheCageAge
📚 Our White Paper finds that the #AnimalWelfare gains could be 40x the costs.
🔗 Read it here → tinyurl.com/3btszmjc
#PigWelfare #BanFarrowingCrates #freefarrowing #EndtheCageAge
🔗Read it here → www.brusselstimes.com/belgium-news...
🔗Read it here → www.brusselstimes.com/belgium-news...
🚫 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.
🚫 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.
🐖 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
🐖 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
📸 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.
📸 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.
🐋 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
🐋 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
🐶 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
🐶 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
🚫 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
🚫 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
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#animallaw #animalprotection #lawschool
🔗Visit → tinyurl.com/bdddwmdy for print copies, or to request access to older articles.
#animallaw #animalprotection #lawschool
🐟 Wild tuna are confined in sea cages, suffering injuries including fin damage, skin erosion & eye loss.
🔗Read the report → tinyurl.com/m8tnab96
🐟 Wild tuna are confined in sea cages, suffering injuries including fin damage, skin erosion & eye loss.
🔗Read the report → tinyurl.com/m8tnab96
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🥩 Meanwhile, Finland is reducing meat in public institutions
🐖 And Denmark is ditching its image as the EU’s bacon factory!
🥩 Meanwhile, Finland is reducing meat in public institutions
🐖 And Denmark is ditching its image as the EU’s bacon factory!
🔍 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
🔍 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
☀️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
☀️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
🚫 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
🚫 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
🇬🇧 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.
🇬🇧 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.
🐟 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
🐟 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
🐔 Crowded factory farms raise serious #AnimalWelfare concerns while accelerating zoonotic diseases & #Antimicrobialresistance.
🔗 More from @pnas.org → tinyurl.com/bdfurxk7
🐔 Crowded factory farms raise serious #AnimalWelfare concerns while accelerating zoonotic diseases & #Antimicrobialresistance.
🔗 More from @pnas.org → tinyurl.com/bdfurxk7
🐔 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
🐔 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
🐄 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
🐄 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
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
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
🐐 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
🐐 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
⌛COPA-COGECA's tactics were “a smokescreen to justify delays in implementation,” postponing real change in farming practices.
🔗 Read it → tinyurl.com/ycxavpa2
⌛COPA-COGECA's tactics were “a smokescreen to justify delays in implementation,” postponing real change in farming practices.
🔗 Read it → tinyurl.com/ycxavpa2
🐄 “In an ideal world, any ‘livestock’ strategy would propose a ban on factory farming,” she said.
🔗 Read the article → tinyurl.com/yc48xzr8
#AnimalWelfare
🐄 “In an ideal world, any ‘livestock’ strategy would propose a ban on factory farming,” she said.
🔗 Read the article → tinyurl.com/yc48xzr8
#AnimalWelfare