🇱🇺 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
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"
In Journal of Animal Ethics 15.2, @alicediconcetto.bsky.social ( @animallaweurope.bsky.social ) presents a review article on "Human/Animal Relations in Animal Studies" by Augusto Vitale and Simone Pollo, now on @projectmuse.bsky.social 📗 muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
🚨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
🎙️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
🚨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
Updated Dutch eating guidelines advise more legumes 🫘 🫛 and less meat (less than 200g red meat/week). The Dutch Health Council said a more plant-based and less animal-based diet is better for health and benefits the environment.
#PutChangeOnTheMenu
www.healthcouncil.nl/documents/20...
The consumer push for better treatment of farmed animals has led to a growth in supply chain audits. But are current audits accurate enough?
https://faunalytics.org/how-accurate-are-audits-in-assessing-animal-welfare/
🐤At this week’s @eu2025dk.bsky.social farm #AnimalWelfare event, Minister Jensen urged phasing out fast-growing broilers EU-wide.
💰Commissioner Várhelyi said a legislation update is due in late 2026 – but his focus was on the competitiveness of EU farming.
🎞️Watch it here → tinyurl.com/5asra2t4
SAVE THE DATE: Join our event with @eurogroupforanimals.org “Time for the EU to Stop Octopus Farming”
🗓️ 2 Dec 2025
🕚 15:00-17:00 CET
📍EU Parliament & online
The @ec.europa.eu must ban this cruel, unsustainable practice before it emerges.
Register here: salesforce-eu.123formbuilder.com/form-87851/
🇵🇱 Poland’s Parliament has voted to ban fur farming — a major win for animals & a big step toward a #FurFreeEurope!
🐾 339 of 436 MPs backed the bill.
🖋️It now goes to the Senate & then the President — and even his veto can be overturned by the Sejm.
#EndFurFarming #AnimalWelfare
🇫🇷 Our Junior Researcher Gladys Le Goff was in Paris to launch a motion to adapt the legal status of sanctuary animals.
🐐It wants to see farm animals removed from the food chain recognized as companion animals.
🔗More here → tinyurl.com/5y9kas2y
🐑 We contributed to an in-depth @wearesolomon.bsky.social investigation on Greece’s mass, avoidable sheep slaughter following an August sheeppox outbreak.
🦠 It exposes a wider flaw in Europe’s animal health system.
🔗 Read it here → tinyurl.com/4r977du4
🐖 @ec.europa.eu's modernization of #AnimalWelfare law is open for public consultation for just three more weeks.
📣 Have your say by 12th December here → tinyurl.com/2an6zdwd
❓Need some tips? Check out @anima-int.bsky.social's consultation toolkit → tinyurl.com/54fe7csw
🏆A big step against the illegal pet trade & cruel breeding in the EU!
🐾 @consilium.europa.eu & @europarl.europa.eu backed stricter #AnimalWelfare rules for breeders, plus mandatory ID/registration for all dogs & cats: key reforms we urged in our White Paper.
🔗 Read it here → tinyurl.com/22v8ukus
Interesting read on the limitations of the legal recognition of animal sentience -- although we shouldn't infer too much from a ruling that was limited to assessing the amount of compensation for damage to baggage!
Photo non contractuelle 😄
🔔 Today! ⤵︎
📚 Our new Policy Brief, “The Road to Reform,” shows the urgency for stronger rules on animal transport.
🚛 Talks in @europarl.europa.eu & @consilium.europa.eu stalled over journey times & temperatures – leaving 1.5B animals to suffer each year.
🔗Read it here → tinyurl.com/ysbb733y
#StopTheTrucks
🐊 Yesterday we joined “Stolen Wildlife: Closing the Loopholes in EU Wildlife Trade Regulations” at @europarl.europa.eu.
@alicediconcetto.bsky.social spoke on strengthening EU laws against the illegal #wildlife trade.
📕 Read the new Stolen Wildlife report → tinyurl.com/2jfpfbb7
🚨 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
🐰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
🇬🇧 @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
🚨 @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
🐈🐕🦺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
🇪🇺 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.
🚨 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
