#Act4 FarmAnimals Today the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published three scientific opinions on the welfare of rabbits kept in the EU for meat consumption. EFSA concludes conventional rabbit cages have worst welfare score 9 January 2020 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals Two new Scientific Opinions by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) identify many animal welfare problems likely to occur on poultry during slaughter and killing operations and propose measures to minimise and prevent them. Corrective, preventive measures needed after EFSA spots welfare hazards at poultry slaughter 15 November 2019 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals For the first time ever, fish welfare has been the subject of a debate during the Plenary session of the European Parliament – resulting in Commissioner Neven Mimica affirming that animal welfare has to be integrated into the long-term development of EU aquaculture. Commission commits to integrating fish welfare into EU aquaculture development 14 March 2019 Eurogroup for Animals Press Release
#Act4 FarmAnimals The contamination of several thousands of tons of animal feed with a genetically-modified vitamin causing antimicrobial resistance is yet another evidence of the risks factory farming poses to animal and human health. True cost of poor farm animal welfare: antimicrobial resistance genes in tons of feed 27 November 2018 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals Today the European Parliament almost unanimously adopted a Resolution urging the European Commission to improve the welfare of broiler chickens as a prerequisite to reduce the sector’s dependency on antibiotics, which is increasingly threatening human health. European Parliament’s plenary urges Commission to improve broiler chicken welfare and public health 25 October 2018 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals Today, the European Parliament hosted the first ever high level political event, ‘Seizing the Day for Fish Welfare’, gathering fish professionals and political stakeholders to discuss the welfare of fish. EU citizens and leading fish stakeholders demand better welfare for fish 6 June 2018 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals Earlier this week the European Commission presented to the European Parliament and European Council a much anticipated report on the welfare of fish at the time of killing in European aquaculture [1]. Commission flouting legal commitment to protect fish during killing 9 March 2018 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals Consumers picture dairy cows grazing contently on pasture in green fields. But a new report by the European Commission’s DG Sante reveals this idyllic image to be far from the truth for many of the EU’s 23.5 million dairy cows. Secret suffering in EU dairy sector revealed by new Commission report 28 November 2017 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals During its 310th session the Intergroup called on the Commission to phase out killing methods which cause intense suffering to animals, such as slaughter without stunning, the use of CO2 stunning for pigs and the use of electrical water-bath stunners for poultry as soon as possible. Commission must ensure proper implementation and enforcement of the Slaughter Regulation immediately 13 March 2015 Eurogroup for Animals
