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Published 20/10/2021News
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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Published 19/07/2021
EU exports of animals by sea pose public health risks
The increasing number of animals exported from the EU by sea is posing serious risks to animal welfare and the environment. In Europe, dead animals are repeatedly washed ashore on several beaches.
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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 24/06/2021
Scientists including Dr Jane Goodall call for EU to promote healthier diets, not animal products
An international group of over 60 scientists today called on the European Commission to shift its funding for food advertisements away from animal products and towards healthier and more sustainable plant-based diets.
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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 01/06/2021
EU must stop paying for ads for animal products
The EU gives millions of euros each year for marketing campaigns with the purpose of increasing our consumption of animal products made in the EU. We are calling on the European Commission to revise this absurd policy.
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Published 21/05/2021
EU Parliament’s Agriculture Committee calls for ban on caged farming
The European Parliament’s agriculture committee today called on the European Commission to propose legislation on banning the caging of farmed animals.
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