🍔 “Burger” & “sausage” can still be used for #plantbased foods in the EU – but not 31 other terms including “chicken,” “beef,” “steak,” “pork,” “breast,” or “drumstick.”
❓Will this hinder the accessibility of sustainable food, & empower industrial animal farming to continue to prevail?
⚖️ Historic hearing today at the @courtofjustice.bsky.social : a challenge to @ec.europa.eu for failing to act on an #ECI it had pledged to deliver.
🐖 NGOs rallied with Hope, a giant inflatable pig, urging the CJEU to hold the Commission to its promise to #EndTheCageAge.
🤞Ruling expected soon.
📑The public consultation by @ec.europa.eu on #AnimalWelfare reveals:
🥚99% of respondents say banning cages for laying hens is important.
🐣98% say the killing of day-old male chicks is wrong.
🐄89% say current EU rules don’t let farmed animals express normal behavior.
🔗More → tinyurl.com/2an6zdwd
🇱🇺 Yesterday evening in Luxembourg, our Executive Director @alicediconcetto.bsky.social spoke at a conference hosted by the Luxembourg Association for Environmental Law (ALDE).
🗨️ With nearly 30 guests, Alice delved into animal law in Luxembourg and the wider EU.
🌍 Wild mammals make up just 5% of the earth’s mammal biomass.
🐄 59% is animals farmed for food – nearly 12× the biomass of ALL wild mammals combined, from elephants to whales.
🧍Humans make up the remaining third.
🔗Delve deeper into the @ourworldindata.org article here → tinyurl.com/bd3b34fr
🇫🇷 Our legal advisor, Anatole Poinsot, is in Paris today for a Senate conference on farming & epizootic diseases, « L’élevage face aux épizooties ».
🗨️ He took part in a round table on the strengths & limitations of our agricultural and health model with Eugénie Duval, Xavier Bailly, & Nina Lejeune.
🇫🇷 Ce vendredi, notre conseiller juridique, Anatole Poinsot, sera au Sénat à Paris pour la conférence « L’élevage face aux épizooties ».
🗨️ Il participera à la 1ʳᵉ table ronde avec @Eugénie Duval, @Xavier Bailly & Nina Lejeune.
📅 20 février, 9h–17h
📍 Palais du Luxembourg
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc5vsdyn
🐄 Cows belong in fields – but EU law still allows tethering.
🇩🇰 Denmark has already banned it from 2027; now Germany plans to end it in Lower Saxony.
❓When will the EU act to tackle this across the bloc?
🔗Read more (in German) → tinyurl.com/5yrzf8yk
🎉Our Legal Advocacy Manager, Hugo Menotti-Valloir, has a new article in the Revue Semestrielle de Droit Animalier.
🇫🇷 “La représentation d’intérêts au service de la protection animale” explores the role & limits of public affairs in #animallaw.
🔗Read it (in French) → tinyurl.com/bnjc7e2h
⏰Next month, @ec.europa.eu will announce its plans on fur farming.
🚫One thing is clear: only a full EU-wide ban will do. Half-measure “welfare” fixes won’t work.
🐾1.5M EU citizens demand a #FurFreeEurope.
🔗 Read more → tinyurl.com/27cvcxzx
@furfreealliance.bsky.social @weanimals.bsky.social
🇱🇺 Notre directrice @alicediconcetto.bsky.social présentera sur le thème : « Les animaux dans le droit luxembourgeois et européen » lors d’une conférence organisée par l’ALDE au Luxembourg.
📅 Jeudi 26 février, 18h30
📍5 pl. Winston Churchill, Lux.
🔗 Inscriptions → tinyurl.com/wyn9rbv5
🦃 160M turkeys were slaughtered in the EU in 2023 – yet they still lack species-specific legal protection.
🔬 @efsa.europa.eu's recommendations are more space & enrichment, an end to mutilations, welfare-focused breeding, & no flock thinning.
🔗More here → tinyurl.com/3bpnsk2e
#AnimalWelfare
🗨️ Our Executive Director @alicediconcetto.bsky.social joined a key panel at @europarl.europa.eu on #vegan labelling, consumer protection & transparency.
🌱 Co-organized by MEP Sebastian Everding & the Green REV Institute, “Label the Future” highlighted why clear, EU-wide vegan labeling matters.
🎙️If you missed our webinar earlier this week discussing Dr. Neil Dullaghan’s new book, “The Compassion Mandate,” you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel → youtu.be/Kck9crB3JPs
#AnimalWelfare #farmedanimals
🇫🇷 Our Lawyer, Anatole Poinsot, was at the French Senate last week for the International Conference on Live Animal Transport by Sea.
🚢 His presentation was on the reform of the EU legislation on the protection of animals during transport, and the urgent need to reform it.
💪Strong support for animals at yesterday’s AGRIFISH Council meeting.
🇸🇮 Slovenia urged @ec.europa.eu to prioritise #AnimalWelfare in 2026 and beyond.
📢 Member States’ demands included ending chick culling, fur farming and fast-growing broilers.
🔗Watch → tinyurl.com/47mens56
🚨Still time to register for @neildullaghan.bsky.social & @alicediconcetto.bsky.social’s webinar today at 15:00 CET on "The Compassion Mandate".
🐄They’ll explore how the EU's global leadership in farmed #AnimalWelfare fell behind – and how it can be restored.
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/yc452tf5
🐣 Norway’s poultry industry will end the killing of male chicks by July 2027.
🇳🇴 They’ll also phase out the fast-growing Ross 308 broiler due to welfare issues.
💪 The EU must #BeLikeNorway and raise farm #AnimalWelfare!
🔗 More → tinyurl.com/pxzf368h
🎙️Join @neildullaghan.bsky.social & @alicediconcetto.bsky.social on Monday for a webinar on his new book, "The Compassion Mandate".
🐄 They’ll explore how farmed #AnimalWelfare fell behind in the EU – and how global leadership can be restored.
📅 Mon 26 Jan, 15:00
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/yc452tf5
🚨Last week’s approval of the EU-Mercosur trade deal threatens countless animals.
🐄More meat imports from countries with weaker #AnimalWelfare standards, more deforestation & habitat loss.
⚖️The EU must demand equal welfare standards for all imports.
🚨Still time to register for “Label the Future” on January 28th at @europarl.europa.eu, with @alicediconcetto.bsky.social on the panel.
🌿 Co-organized by MEP Sebastian Everding &
the Green REV Institute, it will discuss food information and veganism in the EU.
🔗Sign up here → tinyurl.com/tey4hsda
Cover of Journal of Animal Ethics, Volume 15, Number 2, Fall 2025 Teal background with darker teal silhouettes of different animals and white letters spelling "JAE"
Vol. 15, Iss. 2 of Journal of Animal Ethics is available on @projectmuse.bsky.social
! Contributors include Jenny L. Mace ( @uniofstandrews.bsky.social ), Tatu Matilainen ( @helsinki.fi ), @alicediconcetto.bsky.social ( @animallaweurope.bsky.social ), and more. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55880
🚨 Update: the final count of submissions to @ec.europa.eu’s public consultation on modernising #AnimalWelfare rules is an astonishing 236,520!
📈 That’s FOUR times more than in Jan 2022.
📢 EU citizens are clear: the Commission must deliver real improvements for farmed animals.
🚨Don’t miss @alicediconcetto.bsky.social on the panel at “Label the Future” on January 28th at @europarl.europa.eu.
🌿Co-organized by MEP Sebastian Everding & the Green REV Institute, it will discuss transparent, reliable food information and veganism in the EU.
🔗Register → tinyurl.com/tey4hsda
🐄 For decades, the EU set the gold standard for farmed #AnimalWelfare.
⚠️ Today its leadership is at risk, despite strong public support. Can it be rebuilt?
🎙️Join our #webinar on “The Compassion Mandate” with author Neil Dullaghan.
📅 Mon 26 Jan, 15:00 CET
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/yc452tf5
🐄 For decades, the EU set the gold standard for farmed #AnimalWelfare.
⚠️ Today its leadership is at risk, despite strong public support. Can it be rebuilt?
🎙️Join our #webinar on “The Compassion Mandate” with author Neil Dullaghan.
📅 Mon 26 Jan, 15:00 CET
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/yc452tf5
🚨Don’t miss @alicediconcetto.bsky.social on the panel at “Label the Future” on January 28th at @europarl.europa.eu.
🌿Co-organized by MEP Sebastian Everding & the Green REV Institute, it will discuss transparent, reliable food information and veganism in the EU.
🔗Register → tinyurl.com/tey4hsda
🐾 In 2025, the American mink was listed as invasive, which will lead to an EU ban on keeping mink.
🐺 But wolf protection was weakened in the short term.
🔗 Discover more changes – good and bad – for animals in our 2025 #AnimalLaw review → tinyurl.com/4y2n7v8p
Four pages from the annual report
🐦The new year is Annual Report time – and ours is here!
🙏 As we mark our 5th year, a huge THANK YOU to our donors, subscribers & friends. Your support makes it all possible!
🔗 Read it here → tinyurl.com/34pfmat9
#AnimalLaw
🎁 The holidays are here – and a milestone, as we wrap up our fifth year!
🙏 Thank you to our partners, supporters, and donors, whose generosity drives real impact for animals.
🔜 We’re ready to keep pushing for progress with our passionate colleagues and partners in 2026.
