#Act4 FarmAnimals The European Parliamentary Research Services recently published a comprehensive briefing on the EU pig meat sector that is meant to inform MEPs and their assistants. Animal welfare and environmental degradation feature prominently among the issues to be urgently addressed. European pig sector suffering from animal welfare and environmental problems, says research by European Parliament 15 September 2020 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals Our Italian member Essere Animali has released footages of an undercover investigation in two pig farms in prime time on national television (Tg1). Reaching millions of people, Essere Animali urges authorities and also citizens to rethink intensive farming and its harmful consequences for animals and public health. Pig farm investigations released on Italian TV during prime time 14 September 2020 Essere Animali
#Act4 FarmAnimals In her new book "Report from a slaughterhouse", Swedish veterinarian Lina Gustafsson describes the experiences of working in a slaughterhouse where several thousand pigs are stunned each day with carbon dioxide. Report from a Swedish slaughterhouse 14 April 2020 Djurens Rätt
#Act4 FarmAnimals Tail-docked pigs have unacceptable level of tail lesions. European Commission's audit in France reveals Pig Directive not enforced 2 March 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals In Brittany, the Cooperl breeders cooperative has set up industrial and marketing techniques which make it possible to avoid castrating piglets. Animal welfare: the French cooperative where piglets are not castrated 28 February 2020
#Act4 AnimalsEU Janusz Wojciechowski, the EU’s agriculture commissioner, wants to crack down on the environmental impact of intensive animal farming, but apart from support from animal welfare groups, his calls have so far met with mixed reactions. EU agriculture chief under pressure over bid to trim intensive pig farming 17 February 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Iceland, located between Europe and Northern America, is mostly known for its seafood. However, pigs are also gaining importance. Iceland follows Norway in increasing pig welfare 20 November 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals These practices will be prohibited "in the coming months" promised Wednesday the Minister of Agriculture, who nevertheless warns of the dangers of "agribashing". Castration without anesthesia and the "snapping" of piglets soon to be banned in France 30 October 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals A spokesman for the Itzeho police commented favorably on the occupation of a slaughterhouse. German police spokesman sympathetic to slaughterhouse occupation receives public reprimand 24 October 2019
#Act4 AnimalsEU A new video released by the Welfarm association showing castrated pigs without anesthesia reveals a shocking but banal reality, sometimes in contradiction with European standards. Piglet castration: The suffering behind the production of Jambon de Bayonne 23 October 2019 WELFARM
#Act4 FarmAnimals Minister of Agriculture Schouten has decided that CO2 stunning of slaughter pigs remains possible for the time being. CO2 stunning of pigs will still be allowed in the Netherlands 12 September 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Today WELFARM re-launched their campaign against piglet castration without anesthesia. Due to lack of the EU Pig Directive enforcement, 10 million male piglets, 85% of them no older than 7 days old, are castrated without anesthesia in France every year. WELFARM: Renewed forces against piglet castration without anesthesia in France 27 June 2019 WELFARM
