#Act4 AnimalsEU On Monday 15 June, Eurogroup for Animals held a webinar entitled “Animal welfare and SDGs: How should EU trade policy help?” and officially launched its report on “Animal Welfare, Trade and SDGs”. Using trade policy to promote animal welfare is crucial to achieve SDGs 22 June 2020 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 AnimalsEU Eurogroup for Animals’s Trade and Animal Welfare Programme will be holding a webinar on "Animal Welfare and SDGs: How should EU trade policy help?" on Monday 15th June from 16:00 to 18:00 CEST. Webinar: Animal welfare and the SDGs 8 June 2020 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals If anything is going to change in farm animal welfare in the EU, it needs to happen now. Don’t miss the opportunity to give your opinion as an organisation or a private citizen to the European Commission on the future of food and agriculture. Now is our chance to influence the Commission’s Farm-to-Fork Strategy 10 March 2020 Eurogroup for Animals Press Release
#Act4 AnimalsEU Would a mandatory method-of-production label be compliant with the rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)? We say it could, and this is what we proposed at the WTO Public Forum on 11th October. Eurogroup for Animals launches its report on labelling at the WTO Public Forum 14 October 2019 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 AnimalsEU For the second year in a row, the WTO Public Forum will host an event co-organised by Eurogroup for Animals and its members. This year, it will focus on how a method of production labeling system can help foster trade in more sustainable products. Are method of production labels WTO compliant? Open debate at the WTO Public Forum 2019 6 September 2019 Deutscher Tierschutzbund
#Act4 FarmAnimals On August 8, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report on global land use and agriculture, in which experts once again pointed at the excesses of the cruelest meat and dairy industries. Will the EU listen? More support for a shift towards a plant-based diet in UN Climate Change Report 13 August 2019 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 AnimalsEU The fifth meeting of the EU Platform on Animal Welfare in Brussels today revealed that the Commission is likely to launch infringement procedures against Member States that are non-compliant with the Pig Directive. “Animal welfare should be a priority for the next five years” – Commissioner Andriukaitis 18 June 2019 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals On January 16, 37 leading scientists representing 16 countries published a study recommending a plant-based diet for the benefit of the planet. EAT-Lancet dietary recommendations: hardly a "win-win" for the animals 8 February 2019 Eurogroup for Animals Press Release
#Act4 AnimalsEU Factory farming is not only very detrimental to the welfare of farmed animals, but it is also a prominent obstacle to the achievement of the UN SDGs. Eurogroup for Animals raised the topic at a workshop co-organised with four other NGOs at the WTO Public Forum. Animal Welfare takes ground at the World Trade Organisation 8 October 2018 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 AnimalsEU This year’s Public Forum will take place, as usual, in Geneva on 2-4 October and the theme that has been selected is “Trade 2030”. Eurogroup for Animals to co-organise a workshop on trade, animal welfare and sustainable development at the WTO Public Forum 2 July 2018 Eurogroup for Animals
