The Animal Law Foundation wishes you a Merry Christmas! 🎄 This festive season, let’s celebrate and protect every creature, great and small 🐮🐔🐷🐟 #MerryChristmas #AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection

We are thrilled to announce a huge victory! After two years of hard work to have the government recognise boiling lobsters alive is unlawful, our work has finally paid off. In its Animal Welfare Strategy it is now the official position that boiling these animals alive is illegal.

Consumers deserve the truth. Today, @animallawfdn.bsky.social @humaneworldorg.bsky.social and @ciwf.org.uk were in Parliament for our joint event on #FoodChainMisinformation and #HonestLabelling It was great to see MPs, animal protection groups and celebrities join our call for transparency 👇

‘Farm animal welfare in question as one in 304 breaches is acted upon’ @sunday.post reports Our latest report on #TheEnforcementProblem showed that in Scotland only 2.88% of farms were inspected in 2024, meaning 97.02% of Scottish farms received no official welfare visit at all. 👇🧵

The government's response to our concerns on routine pig mutilations 👇 🧵 Find out more about tail docking here: animallawfoundation.org/a-pigs-tail

‘The system simply isn’t deterring cruelty’ @irishnews.com reports Our report revealed last week that Northern Ireland’s on-farm inspection rates were as low as 1.13% in 2024. Read the full article here: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Is the UK a world leader in animal welfare? Our latest report says otherwise Read our latest insight to find out: animallawfoundation.org/insights/is-... Read our report: animallawfoundation.org/enforcement #AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #TheEnforcementProblem

BREAKING: Our newly published data on #TheEnforcementProblem shows the UK is home to systemic breaches of animal protection laws but no prosecutions. Scroll to see what we found 🧵👇

Happening this afternoon! Join us for an insightful discussion on #APigsTail It’s not too late to register 👉https://thewebinarvet.com/webinars/routine-tail-docking-on-pigs-the-law-the-reality-and-the-way-forward

Our analysis shows the media often depicts high-welfare farms, even when reporting animal abuse. This sanitised imagery hides the industrial reality most animals face and misinforms the public. Read our report on #FoodChainMisinformation here: animallawfoundation.org/misinformation

The law is clear. Routine mutilations are prohibited. Yet research has found tail docking present on up to 85% of farms in the UK. 🧵👇

Farmed animals are protected by several laws across the UK. These include The Animal Welfare Act 2006, which mandates that animals are spared any unnecessary suffering, and imposes a duty on those responsible for the animals to ensure their welfare. 🧵👇

Why are we calling for official guidance? 🧵👇

Behind the numbers: The true scale of animal agriculture in the UK Read our insight and find out the numbers of UK animal agriculture: animallawfoundation.org/insights/beh... #AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #TheEnforcementProblem

Did you know that the movement to challenge the legality of current chicken handling practices was first started in The Netherlands by @wakkerdier.bsky.social ? Scroll down to learn more 🧵👇 (1/7)

From trade talks to Parliament 🇬🇧🐾 Yesterday we met with the Department of Business and Trade's trade negotiating team to highlight key UK animal welfare laws that go beyond EU standards – vital context as they negotiate animal trade agreements. 🧵👇

Can the UK uphold its animal welfare standards in trade? 🧵👇

Webinar alert! ⏰ Join us and The Webinar Vet online on Tuesday 2nd December at 2pm to hear from legal, veterinary and academic experts on 'Routine Tail Docking of Pigs' Don’t miss out! Register for the session here: thewebinarvet.com/webinars/rou... #APigsTail #AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection

The recent High Court case of Animal Equality UK v North East Lincolnshire Council & ASL New Clee Limited [2025] EWHC 1331 (Admin) set an important principle: animal welfare can be a material planning consideration. 👇🧵

The Animal Welfare Act 2006 was meant to protect animals from unnecessary suffering – physical or mental. But too often, the focus drifts from the protection of animals themselves to legal loopholes and excuses, which allow suffering to persist.

In 2022, together with @animalequality, we put together a report on #TheEnforcementProblem. Our report revealed widespread and systemic under-enforcement of the legal frameworks meant to protect farmed animals, between the years of 2018 to 2021. 🧵👇

Four years ago we initiated the legal argument that following their recognition of sentience, boiling crustaceans alive is illegal under the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015 (WATOK), where it is an offence to cause avoidable suffering. It’s really that simple 👇🧵

Scotland leads the way on fish welfare – now England must do the same for crustaceans 🦞 Read our latest #insight 👉 animallawfoundation.org/insights/sco... #PainAtTheTimeOfKilling #Crustaceans

We have all seen it: pictures, footage and depictions of idyllic animal farms where animals are roaming and grazing, adding beauty and character to the countryside. But what we have seen far less of is the reality for the majority of farmed animals in the United Kingdom… 🧵👇

We are making a splash for farmed fish in Scotland 🐟 Our call for official guidance and the Scottish Government’s announcement that it will produce it has been covered across national and industry media 🗞️ 🧵👇

Standard industrial farming practices allow for a whole host of painful practices, including mutilations, confinement and selective breeding. 🧵👇

HISTORIC WIN for farmed fish in Scotland 🐟 🧵👇

Today is #WorldFarmedAnimalsDay This dedicated day to farmed animals serves as a reminder that animal protection laws were designed to protect them, rather than to serve our commercial interests. #WorldFarmedAnimalsDay #ReflectionOfTheDay #AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection

We are looking for a Lawyer and a Legal Caseworker to join our team in London! Scroll to learn more 👇🧵 #AnimalLaw #Hiring #LegalCaseworker #Lawyer #JobAlert #AnimalProtection

Good news, we have been granted permission (once again!) by the High Court to proceed with our judicial review to challenge how the government went about changing the law on chicken handling. 🧵👇

What constitutes "unnecessary suffering”? Commercial convenience or profit cannot justify cruelty. If suffering could be avoided, it should be. A key case to understand what “unnecessary suffering” means is the 1889 High Court case of Ford v. Wiley. See here: www.animallaw.info/case/ford-v-...

Vets have a professional obligation to put animal health and welfare above all else. We are concerned with vets authorising tail docking on up to 85% of pigs despite routine tail docking being illegal. Learn more: animallawfoundation.org/a-pigs-tail

The law is the law. Causing any avoidable pain, distress or suffering to an animal, including an invertebrate, at the time of killing is illegal under the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing Regulations 2015. That applies to decapod crustaceans including lobsters. #PainAtTheTimeofKilling

The government’s recent dilution of legal protections for chickens sets an unsettling precedent. This is the first dilution of animal welfare legislation post-Brexit. Read the article here: www.fwi.co.uk/news/eu-refe... Find out more here: animallawfoundation.org/chicken-hand... #HandleWithCare

The Animal Welfare Act 2006 was created to protect animals from a whole host of maltreatment, one of those protections being from unnecessary suffering. Yet over time, its strength has been diluted. It’s time to put animals back in the AWA. Read more: animallawfoundation.org/insights/put...

When consumers are given clear information, they make different choices. After mandatory labelling for eggs was introduced in 2004, free-range sales grew from 32% to 75% of the egg retail market by 2023. 🧵👇

Animal cruelty is a criminal offence. No ifs, no buts. The punishment? 👇🧵

What has been the impact of our legal challenge against the government on chicken handling so far? While it is certainly disappointing and alarming that the government has chosen to dilute the law, we are also looking at the impact our case has had so far. 🧵👇

The horrific images brought by @animaljustice.bsky.social's investigation of a UK pig farm are no exception. Only 2.5% of UK farms are inspected by public bodies. When they do take place, some form of illegal activity or prolonged suffering is always found. www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2025...

We’re delighted to introduce you to Kayla, The Animal Law Foundation’s new Legal Caseworker! With her experience as a solicitor and passion for justice for animals, Kayla is taking on a key role that allows us to keep building a better legal framework for animals. #MeetTheTeam #AnimalLaw

It’s time for farmed salmon to get out of the CATCH-22 Member of Scottish Parliament, Emma Roddick, reiterates the need for #OffishialGuidance to be issued by the Scottish government. 🧵👇

What happens when animal welfare law is actually enforced? ⚖️ 🧵👇

Did you know the Animal Welfare Act 2006 gives all animals a legal right to protection from pain, injury, suffering and disease? 🧵👇

How will Brexit affect animals? As the UK and EU negotiate trade agreements that will affect animals, we are calling for animal welfare standards to be prioritised. Our executive director, Edie Bowles, commented 👇

The government has chosen to weaken rules instead of enforcing them. 🧵👇 (1/4)

We were delighted to see positive reactions to our billboard ⭐️ Our billboard calling out misleading depictions of how animals are farmed got a boost from none other than Diane Morgan, and it’s been featured in the news! 👇

How do we defend animals - in practice? We use a range of tools within the law, and these include: 🧵👇

The Animal Sentience Committee’s report on legislative compliance and enforcement of animal welfare law found that an ‘effective, structured, fair and integrated system of animal welfare surveillance and enforcement is lacking’.

🚨 As of today, legal protections for chickens during transport have been weakened. The government has changed the law to allow a harmful practice – handling chickens upside down by both legs rather than upright – simply because the industry already does it. 🧵👇

👎 Not only has this government not implemented a single animal welfare pledge so far, but they have diluted the little legal protections billions of chickens had. 🧵👇