Last week the animal rights campaign group Peta caused a stir with an online advert that suggested you don't have to eat meat to be a red-blooded male. The evidence? A girl wearing a neck brace as a result of injuries caused by her vegan boyfriend who could "bring it like a tantric porn star". But is it fair to outrage viewers to get a message across?
McDonald's Corp. is pushing its pork suppliers to stop confining sows in small pens known as gestation stalls, moving to address concerns raised by animal-welfare advocates—and catch up with some competitors.
A controversial application to build a farm with more than 25,000 pigs in Foston, Derbyshire has angered both local residents and animal rights campaigners.
When does a slave – and a killer – have the right to go free?
When the killer is an orca, a whale, “enslaved” by SeaWorld and entitled under the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, according to the animal rights activist group PETA, which has succeeded in getting a federal court in California to consider the case.
Animal-based measures to assess the welfare of dairy cows and pigs are effective and should be used wherever possible, according to recent scientific advice from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has broadly welcomed the European Commission’s new Animal Welfare Strategy but urges the Commission to ensure robust implementation and enforcement of existing and proposed measures to improve animal welfare in the European Union. The BVA also expressed disappointment that there is no reference to welfare guidance for dairy cattle and that there is a lack of measures relating to companion animals.
The new EU strategy on animal welfare, announced yesterday (19 January) has met with mixed reviews from the meat and farming organisations. Although tentatively welcomed by some, many feel it does not go far enough to address the problems in enforcing existing animal welfare legislation and also maintaining competitiveness.
UK farming unions have welcomed European Commission calls to introduce animal welfare elements into trade agreements in order to safeguard the competitiveness of EU farmers.
NFU Scotland has met EU Commission animal welfare staff asking that lessons be learned from the debacle that surrounded recent laying hen legislation ahead of the deadline for implementation of similar welfare-driven rules on sow stalls at the end of 2012.
