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The countdown is officially on: With the European Commission currently reviewing the animal welfare legislation, Eurogroup for Animals, together with its 70 members across Europe, is today launching its campaign for farmed animals. With 7 key demands, the campaign will shed light on the failures and poor enforcement of the current animal welfare legislation and call on the European Commission to commit to revising the entire legislation, leaving no animal behind.

No Animal Left Behind: How 2021 could be the year we change the future for farmed animals

The RSPCA recently launched a campaign in the UK to persuade supermarkets to join the Better Chicken Commitment, the leading set of broiler welfare standards which is pushing the food industry to adopt better practices

RSPCA’s campaign to stop cheap chicken

As part of our campaign ‘No Animal Left Behind’, we release our first demand today: Good Health. Animal welfare laws should ensure that animals are healthy, fit and whole. Yet, billions live in preventable pain every day, breathless, injured, diseased, in misery. Animals deserve to feel strong and full of life, to want to run and swim and peck and play. It’s not enough to exist; they should thrive. We call on the EU Commission to commit to ambitiously revise the EU animal welfare legislation.

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'Let's talk about pork' is a campaign launched by the French, Spanish and Portuguese meat industries to improve the image of pig farming. Animal Equality Spain has launched a counter-campaign called "Real or Fake?" to dispel the myths propagated by the pig industry's ridiculous campaign.

Animal Equality works to end meat marketing subsidization

Animal Equality

At the end of February, YouGov conducted a consumer study, which clearly shows that Swedish consumers believe that animal welfare is of great importance. The fact that the animals are allowed to stay outside is very important or important for 84% of the respondents.

Swedish consumers want to keep the grazing requirement

Orders issued by the French Ministry of Agriculture on 25 January 2021 allow several intensive farms (ducks, chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl) to apply for the High Environmental Value (HVE) level 2 label.

French school cafeterias : Intensive livestock farms certified High Environmental Value (HEV) by the government

In collaboration with Italian television, Animal Equality has released a new investigation that reveals the cruel reality of pigs bred for meat in Northern Italy - a region that markets its products with the so called prestigious stamp “excellence Made in Italy.”

Animal Equality reveals mistreatments in a pig farm in Northern Italy

23 February 2021

Animal Equality

In a series of social media actions, Eurogroup for Animals is asking the European Commission to amend the current version of the draft Delegated Act under the Taxonomy Regulation (Regulation EU 2020/852) as regards livestock farming. The text currently contains no language suggesting that industrial livestock production is unsustainable.

Taxonomy Regulation: industrial livestock farming must be declared unsustainable

20 January 2021

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

We also know that Canadians waste an astounding 40% of our food.

Inside the industrial turkey machine

12 October 2020

A respected Bay Area veterinarian endures widespread attacks following an industry “alert” about her criticisms of factory farms.

New documents reveal how the animal agriculture industry surveils and punishes critics

12 October 2020

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

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