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Published 19/11/2021News
Published 19/11/2021
30 years after EU Pig Welfare Legislation, will the EU finally step up to protect pigs?
In 1991, the EU adopted legislation laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs. However, despite the Pigs Directive having been revised twice since then, pigs in the EU are subject to horrendous living standards.
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Published 04/11/2021
EU-US agriculture collaboration must not derail sustainable food strategy
The European Commission must resist any attempt by the US to use the newly created transatlantic collaboration platform on agriculture to undermine the implementation of a healthier and more sustainable European food system.
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Published 26/10/2021
“Implementation of on-farm animal welfare” or “Ode to farmers”?
Today the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Parliament voted in favour of the report on on-farm animal welfare. CIWF EU expresses its concern about the outcome, highly detrimental for the lives of animals on the…
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Published 20/10/2021
Victory! MEPs call for faster shift away from intensive farming
Great news! The European Parliament voted in favour of the own-initiative report on a Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system. In doing so it set great hopes for a shift to sustainable diets!
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Published 13/10/2021
Celebrating World Cage-free Day
Today, on World Cage Free day, we reflect on the tragic lives of hundreds of millions of farmed animals in industrial farms. Every year over 300 million animals in Europe spend all, or a significant part, of their lives imprisoned in cages.
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Published 30/06/2021
EU Commission makes a big step for farmed animals, committing to ban cages
Today, the European Commission made a historic commitment to phase out cages in animal farming across the EU. It plans to prohibit cages for hens, mother pigs, calves, rabbits, ducks, geese and other farmed animals.
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Published 10/03/2021
EU Parliament set to develop a position on fish welfare
On 3 March 2021, Portuguese Member of the European Parliament Francisco Guerreiro (Greens/EFA) presented a proposal for the European Parliament to take a position on fish welfare in aquaculture through a so-called own-initiative report.
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Published 08/03/2021
EU intervenes in crisis of cattle stranded at sea for over two months
The EU has intervened to put diplomatic pressure to reduce the suffering of animals, who have been stranded at sea for over two and a half months.
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Published 04/01/2021
Why World’s First Approval For Cultured Meat Is Good For Us All
In early December, San Francisco-based Food tech company, Eat Just, Inc., announced that it had been given the go-ahead to sell its cultured chicken in Singapore, writes Philip Lymbery.
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Published 13/11/2020
Friday the 13th is a lucky day for Czech hens!
Millions of laying hens in Czechia will no longer be confined in cruel cages from 2027! Today, on Friday the 13th, the Czech upper house of Parliament voted to confirm the ban on cages passed by the lower house in September.
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