While 45 million male chicks can continue to be killed in German egg and poultry industries for now, a new court ruling opens exciting opportunities for expanding and enforcing animal welfare standards. German Court:Economic grounds not acceptable for causing pain to vertebrates 14 June 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Humane killing practices are virtually unknown in the majority of Thailand’s abattoirs, say campaigners, with millions of pigs dying in pain Death by clubbing: the brutality of Thailand's pig slaughterhouses 11 June 2019
#Act4 Pets The Yulin Dog Meat Festival returns today, which will see between 10,000 and 15,000 animals beaten, tortured and killed for their meat as part of the controversial event in China. 1.5 million people sign petition to ban China's Yulin Dog Meat Festival 11 June 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Four days before the traditional March for the closure of slaughterhouses organized in Paris by L214, the DxE France association is broadcasting a new shock video this morning. Slaughterhouses: a new unbearable video 4 June 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Eight years ago J. Broomhall Ltd, a family-run abattoir in Gloucestershire, became the first in the country to get a licence to slaughter alpacas. British alpacas cheat the abattoir 9 May 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Animal activists have slammed an English primary school after they revealed they were to slaughter pet pigs to teach children about the food chain. Leeds primary school to slaughter pet pigs to teach children where meat comes from 1 May 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Our appeal: urgently prohibit the transport of live animals over long distances and the export to third countries. Investigation reveals terrible suffering of cattle being exported to Middle East for slaughter 24 April 2019 LAV
#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 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
#Act4 FarmAnimals Improving animal welfare is the primary objective of this mobile slaughterhouse project led by Bio Normandie, "it is an increasingly strong demand from consumers and breeders" explains Christophe Dupeyré, project manager in the association. A mobile slaughterhouse project in France for pigs, sheep and goats 21 March 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Some 67,154 badgers have been killed in the since the scheme began in 2013. Tens of thousands more badgers face slaughter as UK areas ask for licences to kill 17 March 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The Organic production logo of the European Union cannot be placed on meat derived from animals that have been slaughtered in accordance with religious rites without first being stunned. ECJ rules that the organic production logo cannot be placed on ritually slaughtered meat 26 February 2019