Compassion in World Farming EU

🐖🎶 Did you know that pigs enjoy music? Certain tunes make them more playful and social, while others help them feel calm and relaxed. Animals love music too! All farmed animals deserve a good life.  #WorldAnimalDay #EndtheCageAge #EndIt 

Yesterday was another great day for animals, as we gathered together with over 200 advocates and policy-makers at our annual conference. 💡🗣️ During the conference, we listened to linguist and political communication expert Daniel Mizere explain how to communicate effectively in this new political environment. He made some very interesting points, the most important of which is perhaps that our greatest challenge and opportunity lies with those who do not currently share our views. Thank you, Daniel, for your valuable remarks. 🇪🇺🎤 We also heard from representatives from each political group on their priorities for this new political term. Great to see that #animalwelfare is a shared priorities, proving that it is a issue close to people's heart regardless of the political party. Among the panellists: Anja Hazekamp (The Left in the European Parliament), Niels Fuglsang (S&D), Michal Wiezik (Renew Europe), Tilly Metz (European Greens), Manuela Ripa (European People's Party), and Veronika Vrecionová (ECR Group in the European Parliament). 📣 It is now time for the European Commission to act and deliver on its promises. Our annual conference is not only a great time to reflect on the future, but also an opportunity to reward and thank all those who work hard to make this world a kinder place for animals. Yesterday, we handed over three awards: a special recognition award, a corporate award, and a campaign award. 🏆 Our dearest Tilly Metz, MEP, animal champion and Honorary President of the Animal Welfare Intergroup, received the Special Recognition Award. Thank you, Tilly, for your enormous commitment to giving animals the voice they so desperately need within the EU institutions. 🏆 Our Corporate Award went to Those Vegan Cowboys , a company that is revolutionising the #dairy industry. Meet Margaret, their very own stainless steel cow: https://lnkd.in/e9Wnvcgw Can this be the #dairy of the future? We surely hope so! 🏆 Last but not least, our Campaign Award went to our member organisation LAV for their campaign to free animals from laboratories in Italy. A powerful campaign that freed 25 animals - including beagles and non-human primates - from a laboratory in Verona and proved that winning against big corporations is POSSIBLE. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/e7ZDtpnx What a day! Thanks to everyone involved! Special mention to our President Philip Lymbery and our CEO Reineke Hameleers for being excellent hosts and inspirational leaders. Let's make this political term, the term of animals. #DelivertheProposal #AC2024EFA

A big day for animals with over 200 advocates and policy-makers at the Eurogroup for Animals Annual Conference. Honoured to be opening the Conference today alongside Reineke Hameleers Greatly looking forward to 5 years of gains for animals at start of the new EU political term. We seek to give a voice to the voiceless. This is our time to seize the moment for animals. EU citizens demand action for animals - they overwhelmingly care about animals! Policymakers need to act - the status quo is not an option for animals, people and the planet. Putting animals at the heart of solutions to the triple crisis facing humanity is key! We need to put #kindness to animals at heart of our society. We are the biggest group for animals in Europe and we have one mission: to give voice to the voiceless. We have five years of a new commission & new Parliament to make advances for animals Let’s turn the silent suffering into a raucous outcry to bring an end to animal cruelty #KindnessMatters #Animals #farming #EuopeanCommission #AnimalCruelty #EndTheCageAge #kindness #compassion #hope #WorldFarmAnimalsDay Compassion in World Farming

Ignoring the 1.4 million EU citizens who have actively asked the European Commission to end caged farming makes "a mockery of European democracy," said Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals President Niels Fuglsang at the Eurogroup for Animals' annual conference. #EndtheCageAge

Yesterday, together with our member organisation FOUR PAWS, we organised a photo exhibition to expose the reality of animals in Europe. #SilentSuffering highlights the many shortcomings of EU animal welfare legislation. But it also presents a solution for each species. Among the participants were animal protection organisations, journalists and, of course, EU policy makers, who are key to achieving the change that animals so desperately need. Special thanks go to MEP and animal champion Thomas Waitz, of the European Greens, for his powerful opening speech. ‘It's not so much about silence, but whether we want to listen’. From companion animals, to wild animals, to farm animals, to animals used for scientific purposes... the EU needs to do more for animals in Europe. Although it is great that #animalwelfare was mentioned as part of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of EU Agriculture, we have been burned by empty promises before. The time to act is now. We ask the European Commission to #DelivertheProposal for animals in this political mandate.

Not everyone gets to visit an intensive animal farm.  On World Farm Animals Day, our CEO Philip Lymbery shares some of the horrors he has witnessed in factory farms across the world and why we need to #EndIt.  https://lnkd.in/eHThpq7E 

Octopuses are complex, intelligent and sentient wild animals who have recently caught the attention of researchers & food companies, interested in farming them. Octopus farming is cruel and unnecessary and their carnivorous diet makes it unsustainable. Octopuses' exceptional characteristics make them uniquely unsuitable for intensive farming, and this report sets out the main reasons why this should never be allowed to happen ➡ https://lnkd.in/eVvtX2Kv Find our how you can help #EndIt ➡ https://lnkd.in/eqXRjx7F Vinciane Patelou Elena Lara Philip Lymbery

Team Compassion, working to #EndtheCageAge 💚 Philip Lymbery Vinciane Patelou Elena Lara Małgorzata Szadkowska Yvan Savy Marta Silvia Viganò

We are at the 'Silent suffering: exposing the reality of animals in Europe' photo exhibition, organised by Eurogroup for Animals & FOUR PAWS. This exhibition focuses on systemic animal welfare problems in the EU. In Europe, around 300 million animals spend most of their lives in cages every year. This is not a life worth living. In this new political cycle, we need the European Commission to keep its promises and end caged farming. Find out how you can help #EndtheCageAge ➡ www.endthecageage.eu Vinciane Patelou Elena Lara Philip Lymbery

Ahead of #WorldFarmAnimal day, we’re highlighting what life is like for the billions of animals reared in factory farms.     Today the focus is on pigs - intelligent and social creatures who are often confined to cramped, barren conditions in factory farms. Sign our petition to #EndIt 👉 https://ciwf.end.it/sign/