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Following a one- year campaign, our member organisation Humánny pokrok announced the groundbreaking commitments of the retail chains Tesco and Billa to end all sales of live carp in Slovakia.

Retail chains in Slovakia commit to end the sale of live carp

It’s killing season again in the fur industry. Handlers are equipped with heavy gloves and metal tongs to grasp the animals by the neck, but while fur farmers take precautions to avoid any damage to pelts, they do as little as possible to reduce the animals’ suffering when they are killed for their fur.

Killing season on fur farms: keeping pelts intact entails brutal deaths

29 November 2022

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AnimalsEU

Eurogroup for Animals, along with a coalition of 209 Civil Society Organisations from the EU and Latin America, calls on Member States to uphold the EU’s democratic values and to refuse the splitting of Association Agreements with Latin American partners in order to accelerate the ratification of their trade part.

European Commission slammed for anti democratic push in EU-Mercosur trade agreement

28 November 2022

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Wildlife

Yesterday, the EP adopted a resolution on improving EU regulation through an EU positive list of (wild and exotic) pets. This was the direct result of a petition and subsequent debate at PETI Committee from Eurogroup for Animals and our members AAP and Dyrenes Beskyttelse. Excitingly, it’s the second EP Resolution in as many months with encouraging language on an EU positive list. It’s a strong message to the Commission to expand upon their initial commitment for a feasibility study on the EU positive list in the revised Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking.

EU Parliament shows positive commitment toward systemic change to regulate the (exotic) pet trade

On 24 November, the European Parliament adopted a Joint Motion for Resolution calling for downlisting wolves’ protection status under the Bern Convention and threatening the continuous protection of large carnivores. These statements ignore scientific evidence and best practices demonstrating that coexistence is the solution.

The European Parliament votes to downgrade protection of large carnivores

24 November 2022

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FarmAnimals

NGOs, including several of our members, are pressuring Lidl to sign the European Chicken Commitment, following the release of investigations that reveal shocking conditions for broilers on their supplier’s farms in Germany, Italy and Spain.

Lidl’s chicken scandal: a glimpse of the state of animal welfare in the EU

This resulted from campaigns seeking to downgrade legal protection for wolves and large carnivores, and use culling as a strategy to prevent livestock depredation.

Joint Motion for Resolution on wolves and large carnivores will be voted by the European Parliament this Thursday 24 November in the November Plenary session in Strasbourg

23 November 2022

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LabAnimals

This year’s European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) Annual Conference gathered members from the European Commission, the European Parliament, regulatory authorities, industry, academia, and NGOs to discuss the challenges that still need to be addressed to make animal-free sustainable innovation a reality within the EU.

EPAA Conference 2022 “Accelerating the Transition to Animal-Free, Sustainable Innovation”

23 November 2022

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LabAnimals

Eurogroup for Animals warmly congratulates Tilly Metz and Jytte Guteland for winning the Political Achievement Award on the occasion of the tenth year anniversary of the Lush Prize. Both MEPs have worked tirelessly inside and outside the European Parliament to engage politicians, stakeholders, scientists and industry in the urgent need for a strategy to transition to non-animal science.

Lush Prize 2022 sees MEPs awarded for contribution to advancing non-animal science

Last week the European Commission published its long-awaited Algae Strategy, following from the Farm to Fork Strategy highlighting algae as an important source of alternative protein. Eurogroup for Animals welcomes the EU having a specific and targeted approach to supporting the emergence and development of the algae sector, especially as a source of nutrition and protein for human consumption in a more sustainable European food system.

Commission set to unlock potential of EU algae sector

21 November 2022

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FarmAnimals

Our member, Djurens Rätt, has recently taken police action against a Swedish factory farm for animal cruelty. Read the full story.

Djurens Rätt reports factory farm to police for animal cruelty

While food systems does not yet have the place it deserves on this year’s COP27 agenda in Sharm el-Sheikh, it was addressed in important side-sessions.

Food systems transformation is brewing at UNFCCC COP27

17 November 2022

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Retail chains in Slovakia commit to end the sale of live carp

Killing season on fur farms: keeping pelts intact entails brutal deaths

European Commission slammed for anti democratic push in EU-Mercosur trade agreement

EU Parliament shows positive commitment toward systemic change to regulate the (exotic) pet trade

The European Parliament votes to downgrade protection of large carnivores

Lidl’s chicken scandal: a glimpse of the state of animal welfare in the EU

Joint Motion for Resolution on wolves and large carnivores will be voted by the European Parliament this Thursday 24 November in the November Plenary session in Strasbourg

EPAA Conference 2022 “Accelerating the Transition to Animal-Free, Sustainable Innovation”

Lush Prize 2022 sees MEPs awarded for contribution to advancing non-animal science

Commission set to unlock potential of EU algae sector

Djurens Rätt reports factory farm to police for animal cruelty

Food systems transformation is brewing at UNFCCC COP27

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