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Fish welfare included for the first time in EU guidelines for underwater farms
This week, the European Commission published its new guidelines on fish and seafood farms, which set out standard priorities and targets to ensure the sector is run and developed sustainably.
Read moreVeterinary students support an end to caging farmed animals
Compassion in World Farming warmly welcomes the support of the International Veterinary Students’ Association for the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘End the Cage Age’.
Read moreFood businesses call for EU phaseout of caging animals in farms
Food companies - including Ferrero, Nestlé and Inter IKEA Group - called today on the European Union to phase out the use of cages in animal farming, starting with egg-laying hens.
Read moreEU 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.
Read moreEU 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.
Read moreWhy 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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