#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 uncertainty surrounding the Brexit renders outlook exercises even more difficult. These market forecasts relate to the EU-28 as the UK is still a member at the date of the publication. Short-term Agri Outlook report released: data on meat and dairy production, consumption and trade 15 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The agriculture committee of the European Parliament voted in the beginning of April on reforms of EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) in opposition to the environment committee that wanted to make EU farm subsidies conditional on minimal animal welfare standards. ENVI and AGRI committees divided on animal welfare in Common Agricultural Policy 12 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals 'Let's save the male chick'. It is the new stage of Coop and its commitment to animal welfare in the context of the 'We raise health' campaign. Largest supermarket chain in Italy presents 'Save the male chick' project 12 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The report describes the outcome of an audit carried out by Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety in Poland from 4 to 8 February 2019. Following "serious shortcomings" reported in Polish slaughterhouses, compulsory CCTV is being considered 12 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The EU Birds Directive marks its 40th year in 2019. Projects under the LIFE programme have been working to implement the directive and save species since LIFE’s inception in 1992. LIFE and birds: 40 years of the EU Birds Directive 11 April 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Essere Animali has released a new investigation that documents the cruel procedures that more than 9 million pigs endure on Italian factory farms. The release of the investigation also coincides with the launch of a campaign with a petition, #SOSpigs. ESSERE ANIMALI: #SOSpig campaign 10 April 2019 Essere Animali
#Act4 FarmAnimals Some research proposals focus only on short term benefits for the industry. Dutch Council on Animal Affairs releases report on animal procedures for the livestock sector 9 April 2019
#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 Veggie burgers are for the chop, a Brussels committee has decreed, to be replaced by the less palatable-sounding “veggie discs”. ‘Veggie discs’ to replace ‘veggie burgers’ in EU crackdown on food labels 4 April 2019
#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 As a result, it would make it easier for the industrial concentration of slaughtering and, by extension, the over-rationalization of major slaughterhouses. Article: The implementation of an animal protection regulation on the structuring of French slaughterhouses 2 April 2019