#Act4 FarmAnimals Our Member Organisation GAIA have sent an open letter in Flemish newspapers calling on the Flemish Animal Welfare Minister to finally ban caged systems for laying hens in Flanders. They also launched a poster campaign throughout the region to raise extra visibility for the issue. GAIA calls on Flemish animal welfare Minister to free caged hens 10 May 2022 GAIA
#Act4 FarmAnimals GAIA and Eurogroup for Animals hosted Europe’s first-ever symposium on cultivated meat and precision fermentation. Scientific experts, industry representatives and advocates attended the event in Brussels to discuss the future of our food system. Cultivated meat: the novel food technology which could help animals and the planet 26 April 2022 GAIA Press Release
#Act4 FarmAnimals GAIA and Eurogroup for Animals are delighted to welcome you to Europe’s first-ever symposium on animal-free and sustainable meats, which will be held on 25 April at the Museum of Natural Sciences, Brussels. The evolution of food: towards animal-free and sustainable technology 28 March 2022 GAIA
#Act4 FarmAnimals GAIA reveals once again the sordid state of Flemish turkey farms with a brand-new video footage, shot in November 2021. The footage shows thousands of turkeys crowded together, severely weakened, crippled, injured and dying; and even corpses in an advanced state of decomposition. Turkey farms in Flanders: dire poverty 22 December 2021 GAIA
In an ongoing campaign and petition, GAIA is calling on the three regional Ministers for Animal Welfare in Belgium to introduce a ban on the cooking of live lobsters, as is already the case in Switzerland, as well as a ban on cutting lobsters in half. GAIA calls for ban of live cooking of lobsters 2 December 2021 GAIA
#Act4 FarmAnimals The numbers are clear: 70% of EU Citizens want to appoint a European Commissioner for animal welfare, as shown in an international survey conducted in June 2021. Now, Members of the European Parliament have started the process to support the proposal with the signatures collection for an oral question. A European Commissioner for Animal Welfare? 70% of Europeans want it 15 November 2021 GAIA Press Release
#Act4 AnimalsEU Join us on Thursday, May 6, 2021 to discuss animal welfare in the context of the EU-India trade relations! Event - Planting the Animal Welfare Seed in EU - India Trade Relations 14 April 2021
#Act4 AnimalsEU The Animal Welfare Strategy 2012-2015 aimed to lay the foundation for improving animal welfare standards and to ensure that they were properly applied and enforced across the EU. Eurogroup for Animals congratulates the Commission on conducting a thorough and comprehensive evaluation process drawing lessons from the previous decade activities in the area of animal welfare. EU Strategy for the Protection and Welfare of Animals (2012-2015): the European Commission’s evaluation is finally out 7 April 2021
#Act4 FarmAnimals An investigation carried out by Animals International and Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF) and broadcasted by SWR reveals that despite the current ban in place, German animals end up in Third Countries’ abattoirs. Eurogroup for Animals urges the EU to stop the export of animals to non-EU countries and to prepare a strategy to shift to meat/ carcasses only trade. New investigation reveals the systematic disguise of routes for live transport of German calves to the Middle East 28 October 2020 Animals International
#Act4 FarmAnimals Amicus Curiae submitted by Prof. Alemanno and Prof. de Sadeleer to the CJEU in support of the Flemish decree banning slaughter without stunning Amicus Curiae on CJEU case 23 October 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals The Brussels regional government has awarded a grant of €60,000 to the Free University of Brussels (VUB) to finance research into finding a treatment for liver fibrosis without using animals. Brussels grants Free University of Brussels €60,000 to find alternative to animal testing 10 October 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Today the Advocate General of the Court of Justice released its non-binding opinion on the possibility for EU Member States to adopt a national ban on the slaughter without stunning, following a request made by the Belgian Constitutional Court. Advocate General misses the point on alternatives to slaughter without stunning 10 September 2020 Eurogroup for Animals Press Release
