📣 Have your say on the treatment of farm animals in the EU! 🐖 The EC’s modernization of #AnimalWelfare law – including phasing out cages – is open for consultation. 🇪🇺 A rare chance to shape the future for EU animals. 🔗 Have your say by Dec 12 here → tinyurl.com/2an6zdwd

🗨️ This week our Legal Advocacy Manager, Hugo Menotti, will speak at the University of Pau on the French legislature’s view of #wildlife trafficking. 🇫🇷 Hosted by the Institut Fédératif de Recherche sur les Transitions Juridiques. 📅 9th October 📍Pau, France 🔗 Registration → tinyurl.com/4nmn73ad

🌍 The new EAT-Lancet report warns food systems are the top driver of Earth’s overshoot. 🥩 2019’s report already urged less meat in EU & US – but intensive farming is on the rise. 🔗 The meat lobby steers the narrative, says Changing Markets Foundation → tinyurl.com/yvyv2duw #AnimalWelfare

🐰While fur farming isn’t yet banned EU-wide, national bans, EFSA’s opinion & public pressure may pave the way. 📰 @gabrielakubikova.bsky.social asks: is this the beginning of the end for fur farming in the EU? 🔗 Read the UIA article here → tinyurl.com/533har7e #AnimalWelfare #banfur

🚨 Catch @alicediconcetto.bsky.social on the panel later today at “International Disputes in Animal Law – Dynamics of Global Conflict & Cooperation”. ⚖️The webinar is hosted by GW Law’s Animal Law Program. 📅 Oct 2 | 6–7pm CEST 🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/56kfurbd

🐈🐕‍🦺Join us in October for the launch of our White Paper with AlmoNature & Deutscher Tierschutzbund: “The Protection of Cats & Dogs in EU Law”. ⚖️ Explore the new Regulation, opportunities & solutions with EU policymakers & protection orgs. 🗓️17 Oct, 14:00 CET 📍Zoom 🔗Sign up → tinyurl.com/ypc92pjb

❓How can the EU close loopholes to ban trade in #wildlife taken illegally at source? 🐊 Join the discussion at “Stolen Wildlife: Closing the loopholes in the EU Wildlife Trade Regulations” in October. 📅 14th Oct, 15:00 📍 EP, Brussels 🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/22vx94wv

🇬🇧 @alicediconcetto.bsky.social & @gabrielakubikova.bsky.social are in London for today's launch of the brand new Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience. 🐾 The centre will explore how animals feel — and how human choices, policies, and behaviours impact them. 🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/sentience

🐖18 billion animal lives were lost or wasted in food production in 2019. 🇪🇺 Today, International Food Loss and Waste Day, we welcome EU action – but urge ambition to match the UN #SDGs, so fewer lives are lost in vain. 🔗 Read the research here → tinyurl.com/4hw7358b #FLWDay #FoodLoss #FoodWaste

🐖 Our team visited Món La Bassa sanctuary in Spain this week. 🐐We met pigs, goats, donkeys, cows & a blind horse, all safe & loved. 🏭A bittersweet reminder of the billions who aren’t. 🔗 Learn more or donate → monlabassa.org/en/

🚨 @alicediconcetto.bsky.social will join the panel for “International Disputes in Animal Law: Dynamics of Global Conflict & Cooperation”. ⚖️The webinar is hosted by GW Law’s Animal Law Program. 📅 Oct 2 | 6–7pm CEST 🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/56kfurbd

🥩 9 out of 10 doctors in 5 EU countries say we eat too much meat. 📣 84% call it a health crisis in need of #foodsystems reform. 🌱 As well as helping #AnimalWelfare & the planet, an EU #PlantBased Action Plan could cut disease! 🔗More at @madrebrava.bsky.social → tinyurl.com/5n73vm3a

🚨 Industrial fish farming turns wild fish into feed for caged fish – harming animals, the environment & coastal communities. 🐟With Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements, we urge the FAO Subcommittee on Trade to end this destructive model. 🔗More info → tinyurl.com/3u6567t3 #AnimalWelfare

🗞️ #AnimalWelfare was missing from @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu's #SOTEU, reports @brusselstimes.com. 🗨️ Our Legislative Advocacy Manager, Gabriela Kubíková, said the modernization of animal treatment standards should be championed by all political actors. 🔗 Read the article here → tinyurl.com/yahcarw8

🇪🇺 Billions of EU farmed animals got NO mention in @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu’s #SOTEU this morning. 💪"We have always had to fight for our freedoms,” she said; what about animals’ freedoms? 🐄 We urge @ec.europa.eu to deliver stronger, more ambitious #AnimalWelfare rules to protect farmed animals.

🐖 “More animals are suffering at human hands today than ever before,” says Lewis Bollard in his TED talk on factory farming. 💬 Factory farming thrives in the dark—so the most effective way to end it is to talk about it. 🔗Watch here → tinyurl.com/mr4dy6m7

Tomorrow, von der Leyen will address the EU Parliament with her SOTEU speech. Today, civil society and trade unions delivered a very clear message in a statement signed by 470 organisations: we need rules to protect people and the environment! corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/o...

🐾Stay on top of EU #AnimalLaw! ⚖️Get the latest legislation, court rulings, events & publications, plus global updates. 📥Subscribe to our e-newsletter → animallaweurope.substack.com

🚨 Save the date! @alicediconcetto.bsky.social will join the panel for “International Disputes in Animal Law – Dynamics of Global Conflict & Cooperation” on Oct 2. ⚖️ The webinar is hosted by GW Law’s Animal Law Program. 📅 October 2, 6–7pm CEST 📍 Webinar 🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/56kfurbd

🇵🇱 Our Legislative Advocacy Managers, Gabriela Kubíková & Ekaterina Solomina, will be at the Conference for Animal Rights in Europe on Sept 11–14. 🐄Join them and other #AnimalWelfare advocates from across the globe in Warsaw or online. 🔗Info & registration → careconf.eu @anima-int.bsky.social

🚨 Join @alicediconcetto.bsky.social at the European Vegan Summit 2025 (9–11 Sept), hosted by the Green REV Institute. 🗨️ She’ll be on the panel “Behind the Green Mask: the Food Industry's Marketing Tricks” on 11 Sept at 18:45 CET. 🔗 More → vegansummit.eu #EVS2025 #vegan #foodsystems

🌊 We’ve joined the Transform Bottom Trawling Coalition to end this most destructive of fishing methods. 🐠 #BottomTrawling devastates seabeds and kills countless fish and other animals as bycatch. 🔗Learn more → transformbottomtrawling.org

🐟 The #AquaticAnimalAlliance has released its 2025 mid-year report. 🌊 Aquatic animals make up most animals used by humans but remain overlooked in policy & welfare. 🌎 As proud AAA members alongside 177 others in 75 countries, we’re working to change that! 🔗 Read more → tinyurl.com/4eermd57

❗77% of farmland grows feed for farmed animals, yet meat & dairy give only 18% of our calories. 🌱 We need an EU Action Plan for #PlantBased foods—to protect animals, our health & the planet. ♥️ Let’s choose compassion, sustainability & a better future. 🔗 More → tinyurl.com/yp85yc5c @eeb.org

🐬 DYK bottlenose dolphins use unique whistles to address each other by ‘name’? 🗨️ They’re the only non-human animals known to do this, a key step in language evolution. 🐳 Orcas have shown similar behavior. 🔗 More → tinyurl.com/54cdw3ky

🇧🇬 In a ruling handed down on Monday, the Bulgarian Supreme Court has confirmed the legality of the national mink farming ban, stating that this ban was proportionate in light of environmental objectives. ⚖️ Ruling (in Bulgarian) → bit.ly/46RDYZt

💦Intensive animal farming fuels #water scarcity & pollution in the EU. 💀 Nitrogen & phosphorus runoff creates aquatic dead zones. ❌Factory farming harms animals, people & the planet. 🔗 More here → animallaweurope.org/wp-content/u...

The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court has announced that it will uphold the Ministerial Order banning breeding and import of American mink. This hopefully means a permanent end to fur farming in Bulgaria. The last mink fur farm shut down earlier this year. info-adc.justice.bg/courts/porta...

❓Is it legal for zoos to feed companion animals to wild animals in captivity? 💬 Our Director @alicediconcetto.bsky.social answered in this piece by @lessurligneurs.bsky.social (in 🇫🇷) about yet another objectionable practice taking place in European zoos. ⤵︎ lessurligneurs.eu/un-zoo-danoi...

❓DYK about the amazing adaptions some birds make before migrating? ❗Some shrink or grow their organs, burn muscle for fuel, or double their body weight. 🌎 All to power their perilous journeys across the globe. 🔗 More amazing bird facts → tinyurl.com/6rybruc5

🇩🇰 Aalborg Zoo wants the public to donate healthy guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens & even horses to feed its predators. 💉The animals would be “gently euthanised.” ‼️Highlights how difficult - or impossible - it is to meet animals' needs in captivity. 🔗More → tinyurl.com/2khx8cwd

📉Billions of animals are slaughtered yearly—even under EU laws meant to protect them. ⚖️ Legal loopholes allow cruel practices to continue. 🌱We need an EU Action Plan for #PlantBased foods—to protect animals, people & the planet. 🔗 More here → tinyurl.com/3a85x4r7

🚨 EFSA’s opinion on #furfarming confirms that small barren cages harm animals, & #AnimaWelfare can’t improve without systemic change. 🇪🇺 13 Member States have already banned fur farming. 🚫It is high time to abolish it in the EU. 🔗 www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajourn... 📷 @weanimals.bsky.social

🐟 Up to 1.3B fish are slaughtered yearly in EU aquaculture. 🌊 Nearly 90% of marine stocks are overfished or maxed out, fueled by aquaculture. 🚫 Crowding causes stress, disease, and suffering. 🔗 More in our Research Note 7→ animallaweurope.org/publications...

🐄 Just published!🐄 EFSA releases a scientific opinion & technical report on beef cattle welfare in the EU. Welfare risks, best practices & system-level insight — all in one place. 🔗 europa.eu/!TtY4bY #AnimalWelfare #BeefCattle #EFSA_EU

🚨Animal #agriculture is a significant driver of #climatechange. 📋 In the EU, it causes 70% of agri emissions—yet remains one of the least regulated industries. 🔗 Learn more in our Research Note → tinyurl.com/4dm5rzxz

🐥Chickens live 10+ years, but most broilers are killed at just 5–6 weeks. 📈They’re the most farmed animals in the bloc, with at least 6 billion slaughtered yearly. 🚫 90% live out their short lives on intensive farms. 🔗 More in our Policy Brief → tinyurl.com/32n2y4pw 📷 @weanimals.bsky.social

🚨 Save the date! Join @alicediconcetto.bsky.social at the European Vegan Summit 2025 (9–11 Sept), hosted by the Green REV Institute. 🗨️ She’ll be on the panel “Behind the Green Curtain: the Food Industry's Marketing Tricks” on 11 Sept at 18:45 CET. 🔗 More → vegansummit.eu #vegan #foodsystems

🚨 A Spanish court ruled that factory farming violates human rights. 🇪🇸 Authorities failed to manage extreme pollution from pig & poultry farms in A Limia. 🏆A major win against industrial animal farming — and, we hope, the first of many. 🔗 More at @clientearth.bsky.social → tinyurl.com/y54bw6je

@alicediconcetto.bsky.social is quoted in @voxdotcom.bsky.social on a new Swiss law requiring animal products to disclose cruel production methods. 🛒 She says restaurants & stores, rather than consumers, may shun such products to avoid negative association. 🔗 More → tinyurl.com/3zyysbmp

🩸Like humans, animals have blood types — often more than us! 🐴Horses have 8 blood types, cattle 11, and dogs at least 13. 💉They need blood donations too, but not all companion animals can donate. 🔗 More here → tinyurl.com/4w947dv7

❗The EU spends 4x more on farming animals than plants. 💶 The Common Agricultural Policy encourages cruel, polluting diets. 🌱 An EU #PlantBased Action Plan could boost #AnimalWelfare, climate goals, & public health. 🔗 More → tinyurl.com/3a85x4r7

🥵Suffering this week? Imagine the animals packed into trucks on long, hot journeys. 🇧🇪 Flanders has banned summer exports by road to hot non-EU countries—a small but meaningful step. 💪Let’s hope others follow. 🔗 More → tinyurl.com/2a2z7tb4 #AnimalWelfare #StopTheTrucks 📷 @weanimals.bsky.social

📚 An article by @alicediconcetto.bsky.social & Hugo Marro-Menotti in the Sorbonne Doctoral Law Review explores the tension between animals as property vs. sentient beings. ⚖️It looks at how the ambiguous legal status of animals can be used to advance their protection. 🔗 Read → tinyurl.com/2pemdh8c

🎙️@alicediconcetto.bsky.social joins @jamesozden.bsky.social on the "How I Learned to Love Shrimp" podcast to discuss the stalled EU #AnimalWelfare reforms. 🐄 What went wrong—and what’s next? 🔗 Listen → tinyurl.com/5n7m3fxj

👍 Mink farming will be banned across the EU from 2027 after minks were listed as invasive species. 🗓️ Member States have two years to phase it out… ⁉️ …but Denmark is seeking an exemption. 🔗 More → tinyurl.com/3yta3jr2 #FurFreeEurope 📷 @weanimals.bsky.social

🎉 We’re delighted that 23 MEPs have urged @ec.europa.eu to ban the killing of male chicks & female ducklings—a cruel practice most EU citizens reject. 🐣 Viable alternatives like in ovo sexing already exist. 🔗 Read the letter → tinyurl.com/3f8ewvnz 📷 @weanimals.bsky.social

🐇 Rabbits & poultry most often face intensive farming—but get the least #AnimalWelfare support under the CAP. 📚In fact, a new @ieep.eu ‬‬‬report finds CAP tools for ALL animals fall short. 🐾 Animal welfare must be a standalone objective! 🔗 More → tinyurl.com/3ar3u98u

🩸 The sea ran red in the Faroes as 336 pilot whales, including unborn calves, were slaughtered in the 2nd "grindadráp" of 2025. ❌ This bloody tradition persists despite global & local opposition. #StopTheGrind 🎥 @seashepherd.bsky.social

🐈No more #dogs & #cats in pet shops in the #EU! 🐕The new #EU regulation, voted in yesterday, also includes mandatory ID & registration and breeder rules. 🚫But automatic verification of I&R on online platforms was left out. 🔗 Final text: tinyurl.com/4v3ecf4r #AnimalWelfare #TracingTheTrade