#Act4 FarmAnimals A new investigation from GAIA reveals how painful piglet castration really is. Every year millions of piglets are castrated in Flanders (Belgium) without anaesthesia, and GAIA is launching a petition to stop this practice. New images from GAIA: millions of piglets castrated in Flanders without anaesthesia 4 May 2023 GAIA Press Release
#Act4 FarmAnimals In France, many male piglets are castrated to prevent the development of an unpleasant odour (known as “boar smell”) that may occur when the meat of some carcasses is first cooked. Although this practice is decreasing, it remains problematic: it is extremely painful and stressful for the animal. The Bigard group refuses alternatives to castration of piglets 24 June 2021 Welfarm
#Act4 FarmAnimals 'Let's talk about pork' is a campaign launched by the French, Spanish and Portuguese meat industries to improve the image of pig farming. Animal Equality Spain has launched a counter-campaign called "Real or Fake?" to dispel the myths propagated by the pig industry's ridiculous campaign. Animal Equality works to end meat marketing subsidization 18 March 2021 Animal Equality
#Act4 FarmAnimals In collaboration with Italian television, Animal Equality has released a new investigation that reveals the cruel reality of pigs bred for meat in Northern Italy - a region that markets its products with the so called prestigious stamp “excellence Made in Italy.” Animal Equality reveals mistreatments in a pig farm in Northern Italy 23 February 2021 Animal Equality
#Act4 FarmAnimals Two and a half months after the publication of a first investigation filmed in an Allier pig farm supplying the Herta brand, L214 unveils new images shot in January 2021 in the same farm. L214 releases a new footage of one of Herta's pig farm 11 February 2021
#Act4 AnimalsEU On November 3, we joined, along with some of our members, the 8th EU Platform on Animal welfare meeting. EU Platform on Animal Welfare 9 November 2020 CIWF Long read
#Act4 FarmAnimals The European Parliamentary Research Services recently published a comprehensive briefing on the EU pig meat sector that is meant to inform MEPs and their assistants. Animal welfare and environmental degradation feature prominently among the issues to be urgently addressed. European pig sector suffering from animal welfare and environmental problems, says research by European Parliament 15 September 2020 Eurogroup for Animals
#Act4 FarmAnimals Our Italian member Essere Animali has released footages of an undercover investigation in two pig farms in prime time on national television (Tg1). Reaching millions of people, Essere Animali urges authorities and also citizens to rethink intensive farming and its harmful consequences for animals and public health. Pig farm investigations released on Italian TV during prime time 14 September 2020 Essere Animali
#Act4 FarmAnimals In her new book "Report from a slaughterhouse", Swedish veterinarian Lina Gustafsson describes the experiences of working in a slaughterhouse where several thousand pigs are stunned each day with carbon dioxide. Report from a Swedish slaughterhouse 14 April 2020 Djurens Rätt
#Act4 FarmAnimals Tail-docked pigs have unacceptable level of tail lesions. European Commission's audit in France reveals Pig Directive not enforced 2 March 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals In Brittany, the Cooperl breeders cooperative has set up industrial and marketing techniques which make it possible to avoid castrating piglets. Animal welfare: the French cooperative where piglets are not castrated 28 February 2020
#Act4 AnimalsEU Janusz Wojciechowski, the EU’s agriculture commissioner, wants to crack down on the environmental impact of intensive animal farming, but apart from support from animal welfare groups, his calls have so far met with mixed reactions. EU agriculture chief under pressure over bid to trim intensive pig farming 17 February 2020
