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Published 20/03/2022News
Published 20/03/2022
New report: several instruments available to finance EU cage-free transition
Ending the caging of farm animals through binding European Union legislation can be achieved with the support of several financial instruments that in some cases are already available to farmers, a new report finds.
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Published 20/03/2022
Farm ministers must reject efforts to weaken EU sustainable food strategy because of the war in Ukraine
In letters sent to the ministers today, Compassion in World Farming EU warns that agri-food business interests are mounting a concerted effort to water down the ambitions of the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy.
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Published 16/03/2022
8,000 Animals Stranded at Sea
CIWF EU witnessed how an old, former cargo ship with nearly 8,000 animals on board needed to be replaced while at sea. Inadequate European legislation and its poor implementation regularly lead to prolonged suffering of animals exported.
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Published 18/02/2022
EU Parliament disregards citizens’ calls to improve animal welfare
Millions of animals suffer every day on EU farms. Given this reality, every opportunity for improving animal welfare legislation should be welcomed with open arms. Unfortunately, this cannot be said of the Report on on-farm animal welfare.
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Published 16/02/2022
EU Parliament ignores public’s calls to improve farmed animals’ welfare
To say that the Report on on-farm animal welfare adopted today by the European Parliament is a missed opportunity is an understatement. It will do nothing to improve the cruel conditions in which hundreds of millions of animals are kept across…
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Published 28/01/2022
Enforcement of new antibiotics legislation vital to our future health
Resistance to antibiotics caused by their overuse in livestock and humans is increasing. It’s estimated that if the world doesn’t radically change how antibiotics are used by 2050, antimicrobial resistance will kill more people than cancer does…
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Published 20/01/2022
EU PARLIAMENT UTTERLY FAILS IN PROTECTING ANIMALS DURING TRANSPORT, NOW CITIZENS TURN TO THE COMMISSION
The European Parliament has betrayed Europe’s citizens by ignoring years of public calls for a ban on exports of live animals and of vulnerable animals within the European Union in its recommendations on animal transport today.
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Published 19/01/2022
European Parliament must press for an end to the EU’s live animal exports horror show
Every year more than three million live animals are exported from the EU to third countries for fattening and slaughter. The transport conditions on the trucks and ships are often unbearable.
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Published 13/01/2022
More than 900 000 European citizens call on MEPs to ban cruel live exports
A petition calling for an EU ban on the live export to third countries of farmed animals with more than 900 000 signatures is today (13th January 2022), being submitted to the European Parliament by Compassion in World Farming, FOUR PAWS and…
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Published 10/12/2021
EU transition to cage-free farming should not be delayed despite inevitable challenges
The phaseout of cage systems in EU animal farming to which the European Commission has committed will inevitably bring challenges, but this is not a valid reason to delay the transition beyond 2027, Compassion in World Farming EU said today.
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