On India’s 78th Independence Day (15th August 2024), we plead the case for five basic freedoms for animals! The ‘5 Freedoms of Animal Welfare’ are internationally accepted guidelines ensuring animals are protected and lead lives as nature intended. They are: Freedom from Hunger and Thirst Freedom from Discomfort Freedom from Pain, Injury, and Disease Freedom to Express Normal Behavior Freedom from Fear and Distress The BNS Act. that has replaced IPC, has effectively scrapped Section 377 that recognised sexual crimes against animals, leaving animal victims vulnerable and without legal recourse. Slaughterhouses, dairy farms, labs, zoos, aquariums, fish farms, and industries such as leather and wool, exploit animals on a daily basis. We can do our bit by adapting a vegan lifestyle; taking care of community animals in our campus, workplace and near our homes; avoiding zoos and aquariums while travelling; choosing to purchase only vegan & cruelty-free products and brands; and keeping ourselves aware of animal protection laws. All animals deserve a life of dignity, compassion and the five basic freedoms. Let’s work towards such a world! #IndependenceDay #IndependenceDay2024 #FiveFreedoms #5Freedoms #India #FreedomForAll #UntilEveryAnimalIsFree #Veganism #AntiSpeciesism
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Unfortunately, the recent BNS Act has removed legal protections under Section 377, leaving animals vulnerable and without recourse. Industries like slaughterhouses, dairy farms, zoos, and aquariums continue to exploit animals daily. We can all contribute by: Adopting a vegan lifestyle 🌱 Caring for community animals 🐾 Avoiding zoos and aquariums 🦓 Supporting cruelty-free brands 🛍️ Staying informed about animal protection laws 📚 Every animal deserves dignity, compassion, and these essential freedoms. Let’s work together to create a world where these rights are upheld for all beings. #IndependenceDay #IndependenceDay2024 #FiveFreedoms #5Freedoms #India #FreedomForAll #UntilEveryAnimalIsFree #Veganism #AntiSpeciesism
On India’s 78th Independence Day (15th August 2024), we plead the case for five basic freedoms for animals! The ‘5 Freedoms of Animal Welfare’ are internationally accepted guidelines ensuring animals are protected and lead lives as nature intended. They are: Freedom from Hunger and Thirst Freedom from Discomfort Freedom from Pain, Injury, and Disease Freedom to Express Normal Behavior Freedom from Fear and Distress The BNS Act. that has replaced IPC, has effectively scrapped Section 377 that recognised sexual crimes against animals, leaving animal victims vulnerable and without legal recourse. Slaughterhouses, dairy farms, labs, zoos, aquariums, fish farms, and industries such as leather and wool, exploit animals on a daily basis. We can do our bit by adapting a vegan lifestyle; taking care of community animals in our campus, workplace and near our homes; avoiding zoos and aquariums while travelling; choosing to purchase only vegan & cruelty-free products and brands; and keeping ourselves aware of animal protection laws. All animals deserve a life of dignity, compassion and the five basic freedoms. Let’s work towards such a world! #IndependenceDay #IndependenceDay2024 #FiveFreedoms #5Freedoms #India #FreedomForAll #UntilEveryAnimalIsFree #Veganism #AntiSpeciesism
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MYTH: Endangered animals are completely protected by animal welfare laws and so we don’t need to worry about them. FACT: In two separate investigations into zoos in Thailand, Lady Freethinker (LFT) documented widespread cruelty against orangutans and tigers. LFT Investigators documented these endangered animals in chains for tourists to take selfies with, forced to “perform” in shows, being handled roughly, and more. Learn more about what undercover investigators documented in zoos in Thailand, and how you can help, by visiting our website. Save the Orangutans ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gbRGHbHp #EndangeredAnimals #SaveTheTigers #Tigers #Orangutan #SaveTheOrangutans #Thailand #Zoo
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Last December, the European Commission announced the changes it wants to make to update its #TransportRegulation: the legislation which most affects the welfare of countless animals in the #LiveAnimalTransport sector. The proposal seriously lacks in ambition, and continues to fail millions of animals who are left to suffer unnecessarily on long and arduous transport journeys each year. The EU needs a Transport Regulation that truly puts #AnimalWelfare first! Critically, this legislation must include a ban on live exports, as it's incredibly difficult to monitor what happens to animals once they leave the EU's borders. Just recently, the UK has officially banned this practice - it's imperative the EU follows suit. We call on newly-elected MEPs after June's #EUElections2024 to prioritise drafting a stronger Transport Regulation! Let candidates know that you want animal welfare to be placed at the top of their priority list in the next term by messaging them to do better here: https://bit.ly/4b7ULXE The fate of millions of animals hangs in the balance. Let's make our votes count. #VoteforAnimals #BanLiveExport Many thanks to Animal Welfare Foundation, Animals international and Dyrenes Beskyttelse for the use of their footage.
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Another FTA with animal welfare as a condition of trade. This one also puts some restrictions around grass-fed beef; not an issue for most of our NZ producers! I’m excited to dive into this one in more detail. #trade #internationalbusiness
Yesterday, the European Parliament overwhelmingly approved the EU-New Zealand #FreeTradeAgreement. The deal sets a precedent in trade policy as it’s the first time the #EU ratifies a trade agreement which conditions market access on the respect of animal welfare-related standards. The deal liberalises trade in most animal based products, and should therefore further stimulate #animalagriculture in the EU and New Zealand. It does, however, include an unprecedented condition: the beef quota is reserved for grass-fed animals, explicitly excluding feedlots. And this condition is motivated by both #animalwelfare and #sustainability reasons.
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Statistically, animal welfare matters to you. In Europe, over 90% of us want to see animal welfare improve, while 89% of people demand an end to cage farming ✊ 🐷 Intensive industrial-scale animal rearing - 'factory farming' - is characterised by extensive, needless animal suffering and animal cruelty. It is also a root cause of runaway greenhouse gas emissions and devastating environmental harm (think pollution of water, soil and air). But that's not all. Another casualty from this out-of-control industry is our health, as we consume more than double the recommended amount of animal-sourced foods. All while a few at the top continue to profit from this deeply unfair system... Improving animal welfare would end the needless suffering of billions of animals. It would also bring infinite benefits for: ✅climate ✅environment ✅human health ✅democracy Want to find out more? Check out the EEB's first position paper on animal welfare! 👇👀 #votefutureEU #EndTheCageAge #AnimalWelfare #EUAnimalWelfare
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📣#ECtHR declares, for the first time, that #animalwelfare can be linked to “public morals”, which is one of the legitimate aims exhaustively listed in Article 9 of the Convention. No violation of #freedomofreligion for obligation to stun #animals in religious #slaughter. 👉 EXECUTIEF VAN DE MOSLIMS VAN BELGIË AND OTHERS v. 🇧🇪 https://lnkd.in/eFFEbBDd 👇 #StrasbourgCourt: 🔵🐂takes note of the growing importance of animal welfare in #europe 🔵🐐reiterates that the prevention of #animalsuffering can justify interference with freedom of assembly & association under the protection of #morals (Friend and Others v. UK, concerning fox #hunting) ❗️🐏specifies that the protection of #publicmorals cannot be understood as aiming solely at the protection of #humandignity in relationships between people; even if the Convention recognizes, under its Article 1, rights and #freedoms for the benefit of individuals only, it cannot be interpreted as promoting the absolute satisfaction of the rights and freedoms that it enshrines without regard to animal suffering (§ 95) 🔵🇪🇺 recognizes that unlike #europeanunion law which establishes animal welfare as an objective of general interest, the protection of animal well-being is not an explicit object of the #ECHR. Consequently, the control of #proportionality of an interference does not consist of #balancing two #rights of equal value but of assessing whether the interference is justified in principle and whether it is proportionate with regard to the protection of public morals, taking into account the wide #marginofappreciation available to the national authorities
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Do you live in 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 and care about 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲? Planning on voting in the #EUelections? 🗳 Read on! 🐷 👀 The facts: ❗ 𝟵𝟬% of EU citizens consider the welfare of farmed animals to be important. ❗ 𝟴𝟰% of Europeans want the welfare of farmed animals to be improved in their country. ❗ 𝟳𝟬% of Europeans are willing to pay more for animal produce with higher animal welfare standards. ❗ In all 𝟮𝟳 EU member states, 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝟴𝟬% of people want a ban on cage farming in Europe. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿. But it's not only what Europeans think. The EU's own scientific assessments have shown that current legislation on animal welfare is 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺. So... what do those who represent 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 in the European Parliament think about both animal welfare and the 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲? 👀 These 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 show which MEPs and political groups have supported or opposed animal welfare improvements between 2019-2024 (full analysis & methodology: https://lnkd.in/eyhXk2VE) 👇👇 #votefutureEU #AnimalWelfare #EUAnimalWelfare #UseYourVote #EndTheCageAge France Nature Environnement | Place publique | Europe Écologie Les Verts | Europe Ecologie Les Verts Alsace | REGIONS ET PEUPLES SOLIDAIRES | Gauche Républicaine et Socialiste (GRS) | Emploi Nouvelle Donne | The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament | PS - Parti socialiste | @Caroline Roose | Yannick Jadot | @Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield | Eurogroup for Animals | Compassion in World Farming EU | Compassion in World Farming | FOUR PAWS | La Société Protectrice des Animaux (SPA) | APE AGIR POUR L'ENVIRONNEMENT | One Voice | SEPANSO | SEPANSO Aquitaine | SOS LOIRE VIVANTE - ERN FRANCE | Terre d'Abeilles
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Like all birds, they are not covered by the Animal Welfare Act or the federal Humane Slaughter Act. Killed at only seven weeks old, these ducks are never able to fly or even touch the water. They never forage for food, preen themselves, have mates, or feel the warmth of the sun on their backs. Like billions of other animals, their most basic nature is compromised and their suffering is ignored. Fortunately, the path to a more harmonic and compassionate future is within our control, and adopting a vegan lifestyle can help put an end to this suffering. 🦆 Learn more about ducks here: https://buff.ly/2UJdXYf #vegan #veganfortheanimals #govegan #vegansofig #foodispower #foodequity #foodjustice #ethicaleater #veganism #veganactivism #whyvegan #veganactivist #friendsnotfood #stopeatinganimals #animalliberation #veganlife #veganpoc #vegancommunity #veganpower #vegans #vegansofinstagram #vegansofinsta #vegangroup #ducks #duck
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🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 🙌 The European Environmental Bureau has just published a powerful position paper on animal welfare in the EU. 🔎 It examines the history of the policy, the current situation and the strong demand from EU citizens for change. 💡 This paper outlines the critical policy changes needed for the welfare of animals, the health of our planet and the well-being of society 🌍 . #animalwelfare #climate #environment #livestock #votefutureEU #VoteForNature #EndTheCageAge
Statistically, animal welfare matters to you. In Europe, over 90% of us want to see animal welfare improve, while 89% of people demand an end to cage farming ✊ 🐷 Intensive industrial-scale animal rearing - 'factory farming' - is characterised by extensive, needless animal suffering and animal cruelty. It is also a root cause of runaway greenhouse gas emissions and devastating environmental harm (think pollution of water, soil and air). But that's not all. Another casualty from this out-of-control industry is our health, as we consume more than double the recommended amount of animal-sourced foods. All while a few at the top continue to profit from this deeply unfair system... Improving animal welfare would end the needless suffering of billions of animals. It would also bring infinite benefits for: ✅climate ✅environment ✅human health ✅democracy Want to find out more? Check out the EEB's first position paper on animal welfare! 👇👀 #votefutureEU #EndTheCageAge #AnimalWelfare #EUAnimalWelfare
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Do you live in 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆 and care about 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲? Read on! 🐄 👀 The facts: ❗ 𝟵𝟬% of EU citizens consider the welfare of farmed animals to be important. ❗ 𝟴𝟰% of Europeans believe the welfare of farmed animals should be improved in their country. ❗ 𝟳𝟬% of Europeans would be willing to pay more for animal produce with higher animal welfare standards. ❗ In all 𝟮𝟳 EU member states, 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝟴𝟬% of people want a ban on cage farming in Europe. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿. But it's not only what Europeans think. The EU's own scientific assessments have shown that current legislation on animal welfare is 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺. So... what do those who represent 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 in the European Parliament think about both animal welfare and the growing demands from 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀? 👀 These 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 show which MEPs and political groups have supported or opposed animal welfare improvements between 2019-2024 (full analysis & methodology: https://lnkd.in/eyhXk2VE) 👇👇 #votefutureEU #AnimalWelfare #EUAnimalWelfare #UseYourVote Legambiente | Legambiente Sicilia | Cittadini per l'aria Onlus | MoVimento 5 Stelle | Rosa D'Amato | Ignazio Corrao | Compassion in World Farming EU | Compassion in World Farming |Eurogroup for Animals | FOUR PAWS
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