📢 Today's trade hearing on the EU-Mercosur deal features mainly business voices who stand to gain - but what about the voices of animals? A missed opportunity for a balanced debate on a deal's real impacts - the risk of increased animal suffering through intensified factory farming. #StopEUMercosur

Today I had the opportunity to explain to MEPs why we need to #StopEUMercosur deal: - it will further fuel animal cruelty 🐔🐮 & antimicrobial resistance 🦠 & deforestation 🔥 - its ‘rebalancing mechanism’ is a threat for future sustainability legislation 🫣

Trade deals undermine #AnimalWelfare standards & fuel factory farming abroad 😱 Great that the upcoming #EndTheCageAge will apply to imports 🥚🐷🐮 But as the EU imports lots chicken meat, new EU law must also require that imports comply with the new density & breeding standards 🐔 #StopCruelImports

📣 LET'S GET LOUD FOR PETS! 📣 Dear MEPs, this Thursday we urge you to support: ✅ inclusion of small breeders ✅ mandatory identification & registration for ALL ✅ addressing the online trade ✅ including wild animals in legislation #LeaveNoPetBehind

The OCTOPUS Act is good news for trade & #AnimalWelfare 🐙 It aims to ban the commercial octopus aquaculture in the US & the import of commercially farmed octopus 👏

Very happy to share why import requirements related to #AnimalWelfare are necessary to stop cruelty in the EU & in partner countries 🐮🐔🐷 Merci aux MEPs @erics40.bsky.social @charlesgoerens.bsky.social, Camilla Laureti & Benoit Cassart pour l’organisation 👏🏼

Good news for animals in Europe 🇪🇺🇬🇧! This common regulatory framework will ensure that any progress - including the EU ban on cages - applies in the UK 🐔

🙋🐮 European consumers agree that animal food imports should be subject to the same welfare rules as those produced in the EU. 👉The EU's upcoming revision of its #AnimalWelfare legislation is a ✨golden✨ opportunity to ensure this. #StopCruelImports event in Brussels with Federacja Konsumentów today.

Today at the @eurogroupforanimals.org event on trade panelists agreed that the 🇪🇺 market - including consumers, farmers and producers - needs import requirements related to #AnimalWelfare, even more with the controversial #EUMercosur FTA in the pipeline ‼️ @ec.europa.eu lets do it !

I’m sure everyone who saw us demonstrating like this in Rome a few years back heard about it 😉 #EuropeDay

Come find out why the upcoming revision of the #AnimalWelfare legislation is a once in a lifetime opportunity to #StopCruelImports

For years I've been advocating for tariffs for the protection of legitimate objectives such as #AnimalWelfare. These "reciprocal" tariffs make no sense: they are based on a simplistic calculation & ignore how trade rules and supply chains work. They might also backfire and hit the US economy.

I was very happy to present to 🇪🇺 & 🇨🇦 officials why the EU seals regime remains fit for purpose 🦭 The EU seals regime was a big milestone for #AnimalWelfare. Let’s continue discussions on how to better implement it rather than weakening it.

This may have implications for #AnimalWelfare because if the 200% tariffs on 🇪🇺 wine & spirits happen, expect stronger calls in favour of trade agreements, including with #Mercosur and 🇮🇳

⚠️ Animal welfare and sustainability should be a cornerstone of corporate policies. 👉 bit.ly/3FjmDge This is why we joined 360+ civil society organisations worldwide in urging @Europarl_EN & @EUCouncil to say: 📢 #NoToOmnibus - turning corporate due diligence into an empty shell

Let’s make sure public money is spent only on high welfare products.

In December 2019 @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu announced the #GreenDeal. What is left today ? Watered down obligations for a very limited number of operators. #WeHadADeal

And no worries, applying EU #AnimalWelfare standards to imported products is compatible with #WTO agreements. Actually, the EU slaughter regulation already applies to third countries exporting to the EU. Read our blog 🐔

Have you read the @ec.europa.eu's Vision on the Future of EU Agriculture ? It has rather good elements on trade & #AnimalWelfare 👏 Read our #PressRelease 🧐

This is great news for animals in the EU and abroad 👏 The revision of the #AnimalWelfare legislation is the perfect opportunity to #EndTheCageAge for all animals, regardless their origin. Let's do it @ec.europa.eu 🤘

The #EUMercosur deal is toxic ❌ It will stimulate feedlots (which are already increasing) & intensive poultry production in South America 🐮🐔 The deal also allows partners to challenge ANY future legislation (even if legitimate) if it nullifies trade concessions in terms of business opportunities.

The new regime - revision of the trade agreement or new autonomous measures - must condition any trade liberalisation of animal based products to the *implementation* of EU #AnimalWelfare standards 🐔🥚 👉🏼 Read our position here : ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

The modernisation of the #AnimalWelfare law is also the best opportunity we have to ensure that all products marketed on the EU comply with the same standards. #StopCruelImports

The #EUDR is necessary to ensure our consumption does not further contribute to deforestation. But its effectiveness will depend on the bench-marking to determine if a country is low, standard or high-risk. #Together4Forests www.earthsight.org.uk/news/benchma...

Great news from #USA! 🐳🐬 The government is banning seafood imports that don’t meet US marine mammal protection standards—a big win for #animalwelfare from the world’s largest seafood importer! @ec.europa.eu what are you waiting to follow suit ? biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

This #Eurobarometer also confirms that a vast majority of EU citizens (88%) want imported products to comply with EU #AnimalWelfare standards 🤩 The revision of the #AnimalWelfare law provides a unique opportunity to meet citizen’s expectations 👌 @ec.europa.eu let’s do it ? 💪

The new #EUMercosur deal is a bad deal: - No guarantee to offset intensive animal farming 🐮🐔 - TSD chapter weakens the implementation of #Deforestation law 🔥 - Mercosur countries can challenge any future EU law or any law in force but not yet fully implemented such as #DueDiligence or #VetMed 🦠