#Act4 FarmAnimals As part of the Farm to Fork strategy, and towards the background of the COVID-19 crisis, the European Commission launched a consultation on a contingency plan to ensure food supply and food security across the EU in times of crisis. Eurogroup for Animals calls for more plant-based production and end of long-distance animal transports to ensure food security 4 May 2021
#Act4 FarmAnimals Animal protection and environmental groups call for animal welfare to be included in COVID-19 recovery policies at special session of the UN General Assembly addressing pandemic UN General Assembly Special Session on COVID-19 3 December 2020 Press Release
#Act4 FarmAnimals The first report of coronavirus on a Swedish mink farm came out on October 23rd. More recently, the virus has been detected on nine more farms. All farms are located in the Sölvesborg municipality in Blekinge. Djurens Rätt calls on Swedish government to close mink farms 26 November 2020 Project 1882
#Act4 FarmAnimals In the early months of the pandemic, meatpacking plants emerged as deadly hot spots for COVID-19. "Virus on the Poultry Line": Documentary on the experience of poultry workers with COVID-19 23 October 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Starting from the first half of 2020, COVID-19 – caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus – spread through almost all countries in the world. Overcoming the impact of COVID-19 on animal welfare: COVID-19 Thematic Platform on Animal Welfare 23 October 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals There is ample science showing how antibiotic overuse on factory farms leads to antibiotic-resistant superbugs, antimicrobial resistance, that spreads to workers, the environment and into the food chain. New report- Fueling the pandemic rise: Factory farming and the rise of superbugs 20 October 2020 WAP
#Act4 FarmAnimals The European Commission's Farm to Fork strategy pledges to reduce the environmental and climate impact of animal production. However, no concrete actions are suggested to tackle the root causes of the problem. How are climate and health crises driven by factory farms? 12 October 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Covid has got experts thinking urgently about the risk of diseases passing from farmed animals to humans. We examine the major outbreaks of the past two centuries Farm animals and pandemics: nine diseases that changed the world 22 September 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Biosecure farms complete with staff quarantine and chutes for dead pigs are seen as progress, but may carry their own risks. A 12-storey pig farm: has China found the way to tackle animal disease? 21 September 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals A recent report on the circulation of A(H1N1) subtype influenza viruses in the swine population in China with evidence of zoonotic potential has alerted the world to the pandemic risk associated with swine influenza viruses. FAO/OIE/WHO Tripartite statement on the pandemic risk of swine influenza 15 September 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals In documents dating to 2006, government officials predicted that a pandemic would threaten critical businesses and warned them to prepare. Meatpacking companies largely ignored them, and now nearly every one of the predictions has come true. Meatpacking companies dismissed years of warnings but now say nobody could have prepared for Covid-19 7 September 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Animals died of hunger and thirst after 58,000 returned to Sudan due to quarantine compromise. 3,000 sheep die after live exports rejected by Saudi Arabia 17 August 2020