#Act4 FarmAnimals Fears are growing over another potential important drug shortage following the isoflurane scare earlier this year. Anesthetic shortage poses acute welfare impact for farm animals in the UK 13 May 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The Forum is a key activity of the OIE Global Animal Welfare Strategy which was adopted at the 85th OIE General Session in 2017. Follow-up OIE event report: "Animal transport: a shared responsibility" 11 May 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Young calves exported from Ireland to holding centres in France, before they are sold to farms across Europe, have been beaten and brutalised, an investigation has found. Live export Irish calves brutally ill-treated in France en route to south Europe 11 May 2019 Investigation
#Act4 FarmAnimals We’ve all heard them and used them – the common references to farmed animals that appeal to the worst part of human nature: ‘pearls before swine’, ‘what a pig’, ‘like lambs to the slaughter’, ‘bird brain’. Face it: A farmed animal is someone, not something 11 May 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Today, Animal Rights, together with the coalition Open Wing Alliance, has launched a global campaign against the hotel chain Best Western International. Lobbying Best Western to drop cages for hens 8 May 2019 Djurens Rätt
#Act4 FarmAnimals On May 3, the 5th International Animal Rights Conference will be organized by the animal welfare organization Loomus at the Salme Cultural Center in Tallinn. The 5th International Animal Rights Conference will be held in Tallinn soon 3 May 2019 Loomus
#Act4 FarmAnimals Death show or live show? Bullfighting can no longer claim VAT at a reduced rate like other shows 1 May 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals This guide provides recommendations on : stockmanship, feed and water, physical environment, husbandry practices and health management. Dairy industry's updated "Guide to Good Animal Welfare in Dairy Production" 15 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The government is ready with yet another great gift to agriculture despite the scandal over the agricultural package, which gave agriculture more lenient environmental legislation, is still fresh in the Danes' memory. Campaign against an unbalanced Animal Welfare Act in Denmark 15 April 2019 Animal Protection Denmark
#Act4 FarmAnimals The fattening houses, in which pigs are kept until they are slaughtered, are to become "more animal-friendly". Criticism over German government plan to allow farmers a 15-year period to renovate pig stables 6 April 2019 Deutscher Tierschutzbund
#Act4 FarmAnimals The committee will vote on the rules that EU countries will have to follow when determining how to distribute subsidies to their farming sector. MEPs to vote on the future of intensive farms 2 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals At over 1200 farms in our country there is extremely high mortality among calves. Poor care for calves: Mortality on 1,200 farms in the Netherlands is alarmingly high 1 April 2019