#Act4 FarmAnimals Following Nando’s announcement last week, high street bakery chain Greggs is the latest to sign up to the Better Chicken Commitment – a significant pledge to further strengthen their animal welfare credentials. Greggs signs up for better chicken! 7 August 2020 CIWF
#Act4 FarmAnimals More than five million animal welfare, contamination and processing problems have led to meat being deemed unsafe for humans in Scotland since 2016. Rejected meat: five million defects found by food watchdog in Scotland since 2016 8 June 2020 CIWF
#Act4 FarmAnimals Essere Animali revealed terrible conditions on the intensive chicken farm connected with Italy's largest poultry meat supplier. Undercover investigation reveals cruel treatment of chickens in Italy 8 June 2020 Essere Animali
#Act4 FarmAnimals The coronavirus isn’t just a public-health crisis. It’s an ecological one. The pandemic is not a natural disaster: barns packed with animals are good places to breed pathogens 15 April 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Half of the UK’s chickens are being produced by companies fully or partly controlled by US agribusinesses, according to an analysis of industry data, fuelling concerns of growing American influence over the British food sector. Half of UK chickens produced by US agriculture giants 8 April 2020 CIWF
#Act4 FarmAnimals Both suspects chose to negotiate, that is: they admitted their faults. Historical win: Amadori sentenced for animal abuse 2 March 2020 Animal Equality
#Act4 FarmAnimals Just in time for Trump’s UK visit, Channel 4’s Dispatches looked at the food standard implications of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US. It wasn’t a pretty sight "The Truth About Chlorinated Chicken": an investigation into American poultry production 11 February 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Carrefour and more distributers join the Animal Welfare Label Association (AEBEA), created in 2018 by LFDA, CIWF, OABA and the Casino group to offer a labeling scheme on animal welfare. Animal welfare labeling is becoming more widespread in France 6 February 2020 LFDA
#Act4 FarmAnimals A German initiative to create a European farm-products label guaranteeing respect for animal welfare received broad support at the European Agriculture Ministers Council on Monday. Europe is considering farm-animal welfare label 30 January 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals FFAR and Open Philanthropy joined forces to offer up to 6 million dollars in grants and prizes to the firm, group or individual that successfully develops technology that can accurately and rapidly determine a chick's sex as early as possible during the egg production process. In ovo sex sorting system contest enters next phase 30 January 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Researchers worry about the "growing influence [of the lobbies of animal husbandry] in public decisions which takes on a worrying dimension for our democracy" 130 researchers warn in open letter to better protect whistleblowers in France 29 January 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals France is to ban from the end of 2021 the hugely controversial but widespread poultry industry practice of systematically slaughtering male chicks, Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume said Tuesday. France to ban systematic culling of male chicks by the end of 2021 28 January 2020