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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 18h

📣 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

The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 1d

🗨️ 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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 2d

🌍 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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 6d

🐰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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 7d

🐈🐕‍🦺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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 8d

❓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

The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 8d

🇬🇧 @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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 9d

🐖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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 12d

🐖 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/

The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 @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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 20d

🥩 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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 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

The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 23d

🗞️ #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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 29d

🇪🇺 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.

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 29d

🐖 “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

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Sep 9

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...

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · Sep 8

🐾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

The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · Sep 2

🇵🇱 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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨 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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · Aug 27

🌊 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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · Aug 26

🐟 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

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · Aug 21

❗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

77% of farmland used to grow cereal crops to feed farmed animals
Meat and dairy provide only 18% of calories for humans
Image © heartsnminds

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The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · Aug 19

🐬 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

The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity

The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity was first produced in 1995 as a comprehensive resource for the public, the media, scientists, students, and policymakers to learn the various

tinyurl.com

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