#Act4 LabAnimals Horseshoe crabs’ icy-blue blood will remain the drug industry’s standard for safety tests after a powerful US group ditched a plan to give equal status to a synthetic substitute pushed by Swiss biotech Lonza and animal welfare groups. Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as industry group rejects substitute 9 June 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) has proposed to end a controversial and obsolete animal test - the Abnormal Toxicity Test - for human vaccines. And animal welfare organisations like Human Society International (HSI)/India have lauded the move. The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission's proposal to end a controversial animal test for human vaccines 9 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife A Dutch judge late on Thursday (June 4) postponed the planned cull of around 10,000 mink on farms in the Netherlands where coronavirus had been reported, after animal rights groups objected. Coronavirus: Dutch postpone cull of thousands of minks amid animal rights objections 8 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife World Oceans Day has been celebrating the ocean on June 8th every year since 2002. And while Covid-19 and social distancing are changing how we recognize our blue planet this year, the need for action is perhaps more important than ever. Ensuring a healthy home for marine life: World Oceans Day 8 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife The common agricultural policy (CAP) was not effective in reversing the decades-long decline in biodiversity and intensive farming remains a main cause of biodiversity loss, according to a new report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA). Biodiversity on farmland continues to decline despite specific CAP measures 8 June 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Nearly three-quarters of the world’s largest meat, fish and dairy companies have been graded as a ‘high’ pandemic risk and criticised for their inability to prevent the emergence of new zoonotic diseases in a new report released on Wednesday (3 June). COVID-19 could be ‘straw that breaks meat industry’s back’ says new report 8 June 2020
#Act4 AnimalsEU The pandemic has exposed tensions over food security that are now playing out in the UK-EU trade talks. Coronavirus: UK farmers face brutal test ahead of Brexit 8 June 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals More than five million animal welfare, contamination and processing problems have led to meat being deemed unsafe for humans in Scotland since 2016. Rejected meat: five million defects found by food watchdog in Scotland since 2016 8 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Primatologist calls for overhaul of food habits to prevent a future pandemic. Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19 8 June 2020
#Act4 AnimalsEU 'Dual tariff' regime would see different levels of duty on imported foods, depending on whether they comply with UK welfare standards Britain ready to allow import of chlorinated chicken from US 8 June 2020
#Act4 AnimalsEU The European Commission is awaiting formal notification that the Netherlands has rejected the EU-Mercosur trade deal. Dutch Parliament adopts a resolution against the ratification of the EU-Mercosur trade deal 8 June 2020
#Act4 Pets The RSPCA has backed the calls for tougher sentencing of animal abusers, seeking to raise awareness of the Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill, which the Labour party today asked the Government to bring to the House of Commons in August. Support for Animal Sentencing Bill in the UK 8 June 2020 RSPCA
