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Published 10/12/2021News
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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Published 02/12/2021
EU Parliament must go beyond weak committee recommendations by limiting animal transport
We call on the European Parliament to go beyond today’s weak recommendations from a key committee and vote for strict limits on live animal transport, including an outright ban on live exports to outside the European Union.
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Published 23/11/2021
Webinar: The need for welfare legislation for aquatic animals
On December 1st, 2021, from 10:30 to 12:30 CET, Compassion in World Farming EU will organise a webinar to highlight why the forthcoming revision of EU animal welfare legislation must include protection for farmed fish and other aquatic animals.
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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 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 12/10/2021
EU ministers push for an Animal Welfare legislation revision guided by science
Today, at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council, Agriculture ministers from Belgium, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden presented a position paper on “a new EU legislative frame for animal welfare focusing on the keeping of animals”.
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Published 10/09/2021
MEPs call for EU food strategy to promote plant-rich diets
Today, on 10 September 2021, two powerful European Parliament committees called on the European Commission to promote healthy plant-rich diets as part of a sustainable EU food strategy.
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