Day: October 3, 2023

Farm Animals, General News, Live Transport

Typical EU: Maroš Šefčovič promises to deliver on animal welfare, but fails to commit to timeline.

Maroš Šefčovič promises to deliver on animal welfare, but fails to commit to timeline

3 October 2023

During today’s hearing at the European Parliament, European Commission’s Executive Vice-President (EVP) Maroš Šefčovič, nominated to oversee the Green Deal, repeated that the animal welfare proposals remain a priority for the upcoming months, yet failed to provide a timeline for their publication.

A number of MEPs, including Tilly Metz (Greens/Efa), Emma Weisner (Renew), Beatrice Covassi (S&D/PD) and Herbert Dorfmann (EPP), specifically questioned the EVP-designate on the animal welfare proposals, reiterating the importance of sticking to the promised timeline and delivering by the end of the year, to honour the demands of millions of European citizens.

We are pleased that animal welfare has been mentioned among the priorities for the coming months. Yet, we are disappointed that no concrete action or timeline has been provided, despite the many requests made by MEPs of various groups. We want to reiterate the importance for the EU to fulfil its commitments under the “End the Cage Age” ECI, which gathered more than 1.4 million signatures. Further delaying the publication of the proposals to the next term would be a democratic failure. As President von der Leyen recently said during her SOTEU address ”If it matters to Europeans it matters to Europe”, and we could not agree more, now though, we need to see it happen for the millions of Europeans who’ve been asking the European Commission to improve the lives of billions of animals

Reineke Hameleers, CEO, Eurogroup for Animals

The EC initially committed to deliver the proposals for a revised animal welfare legislation, as part of the Farm to Fork Strategy, by the end of this year. With the EC expected to finalise its working programme in the upcoming weeks, the timeline for publishing them within the current term is becoming increasingly tight. The EVP-designate mentioned several times the need for more assessments and dialogues to be carried out, even if the impact assessment on the legislation has been finalised and despite the numerous opportunities all stakeholders had to contribute over the past years.

During the hearing, the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President Šefčovič also mentioned that the EC is finalising the Transport Regulation proposal. Having a finally renewed text on transport would be much welcome, however, delivering only one of the four proposals won’t meet the millions of citizens’ demands for better animal welfare. Indeed, the latest European Citizens’ Initiatives End the Cage Age and Fur Free Europe which collected 1.4 and 1.5 million signatures respectively, show that Europeans demand better protection for animals now. Only updating the live transport rules would leave billions of animals at the mercy of outdated legislation.

The European Commission can still fulfil the promise it made in June 2021 to millions of citizens, and millions of animals, to go cage free by 2027, but now is the time to act. 

Regards Mark

Farm Animals, General News

Spain: Animal Equality Denounces Cruelty In Spanish Farms.

With thanks to Stacey at ‘Our Compass’ for sending.

Animal Equality denounces cruelty in Spanish farms | Our Compass (our-compass.org)



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I don’t scale animal suffering, it’s ALL unacceptable, thus why I’m vegan. However, regarding this investigation into Spanish “farms” by Animal Equality, exposing the continued absolute horrors inflicted on animals, I’m just going to put out there that Spain is rated HIGHER than the USA in “animal welfare”. SL

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Please sign petition HERE to receive plant-based recipes and verbalize your support of Animal Equality’s efforts to investigate and stop animal suffering. Animal Equality has infiltrated farms to show what consumers don’t know, and the livestock industry hides. 

Animal Equality has investigated more than 170 farms since 2010. This year we present the evidence in September, collected from five Spanish pig farms during the months of May and June 2023.

In Spain there are regulations to protect (sic) pigs but there is a high rate of non-compliance; for example, they are subjected to painful procedures such as tail mutilation without anesthesia; additionally, the conditions of intensive exploitation cause many animals to die on farms or become sick and injured. The evidence corresponds to the fattening stage that begins after weaning and shows the life of the pigs before reaching the slaughterhouse. 

Investigators witnessed the diseases and injuries typical of these farms, such as lameness, infections in the sows’ teats, wounds with pus, swollen genitals, and prolapsed uterus and anus. Uterine prolapse is due to the pressure of pregnancies and births to which sows are induced for production; the same abdominal pressure causes the rectum to be pushed outwards, this can be in pigs and sows. 

Animals were also found with wounds on the backs, eyes, and legs, as well as lesions on the skin of the neck and shoulder. Additionally, the housing conditions were also documented: muddy floors with worms, flies, bugs; corpses of rats and other pigs, including one in a drinking trough. 

The lifeless bodies of these animals were found in hallways, containers, and various spaces. It was common to see some pigs sniffing, licking, biting the ears, and abnormal growths in the stomachs of the dead. It is important to know that what we document is not an exception but the rule, as we have documented in various investigations, which is why it is necessary to adopt a cruelty-free diet, opting for plant-based alternatives or for English version HERE.

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