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Published 04/11/2021News
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 favor 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 farm.
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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 10/06/2021
Overwhelming support by EU Parliament for ban on cages for farmed animals
Today, the European Parliament urged the European Commission to make cages for farmed animals illegal across the European Union by 2027, adopting a resolution on the ‘End the Cage Age‘ European Citizens’ Initiative.
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Published 14/05/2021
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.
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Published 29/03/2021
Veterinary 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’.
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Published 17/03/2021
Food 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.
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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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