🫏 Planning to visit an animal sanctuary while on holiday? Choose carefully. 🔍 Before you go, check if it's accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries. 🛡️ They list genuine sanctuaries & rescue centres, not exploitative attractions. 🔗 sanctuaryfederation.org

🐎 In EU holiday hotspots, equids suffer to give tourists a “real” experience. ☀️Malta’s horses pull heavy carriages in stressful conditions, & Santorini’s donkeys trek up steep, hot paths. ✒️ Please sign today: 🇲🇹 → tinyurl.com/bdteerve 🇬🇷 → tinyurl.com/3h5ynkzp

🐥 Gabriela Kubíková has an article on the Coller Animal Law Forum (CALF) website about chick culling. 🚫 Millions of day-old chicks and ducklings are killed each year, despite viable alternatives. 🇪🇺 It's time for an EU-wide ban. 🔗Read it here → tinyurl.com/44jb4vz5 #AnimalWelfare

🐯 What prevents the full realisation of animals’ moral status, & how can those barriers be overcome? 🇬🇧 The 11th Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics Summer School is exploring this and other topics this week. 🗨️ @alicediconcetto.bsky.social & @gabrielakubikova.bsky.social are among the speakers.

🏆 @ec.europa.eu is set to ban fishing in more marine protected areas in the Baltic Sea. 🐟 After a request from Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Finland, fishing will be prohibited in 6 more #Natura2000 sites. 🔗 Delegated act here → tinyurl.com/3ctp4vs5

🦠 New research links giant chicken farms to the spread of campylobacter, the leading bacterial cause of food poisoning. 🐔 Crowded factory farms raise serious #AnimalWelfare concerns while accelerating zoonotic diseases & #Antimicrobialresistance. 🔗 More from @pnas.org → tinyurl.com/bdfurxk7

🇳🇱 300 million chickens a year will be protected from being caught by the legs in the Netherlands. 🐔 Thanks to NGO @wakkerdier.bsky.social, the country's highest court has closed a legal loophole in the EU ban. 🚫 Farms must switch to more humane catching methods by 1 January 2027. #AnimalWelfare

🥛 Europe’s dairy supply is 2.5× higher than anywhere else. 🐄 This drives selective breeding for extreme yields, shorter lives, & separating calves and mothers – much of it needlessly. 🚨 @ec.europa.eu's Commission’s Livestock Strategy must do more. 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n8fy7kj #AnimalWelfare

🍽️ Adopting the #EATLancet Planetary Health Diet by 2050 could mean: 🐐 400M fewer cows, sheep & goats farmed 🌍6% less land used for farming 💨85% less land-use CO₂ emissions, & lower methane 💦 Less water & fertilizer use 🔗 Read the Nature study → tinyurl.com/2vsjx7d6 #AnimalWelfare #FoodSystems

💬Gabriela Kubíková is quoted in an article by @zdboren.bsky.social, “Inside Big Ag’s plot to kill the EU Green Deal,” published in Grilled. ⌛COPA-COGECA's tactics were “a smokescreen to justify delays in implementation,” postponing real change in farming practices. 🔗 Read it → tinyurl.com/ycxavpa2

💬Our Legislative Advocacy Manager, Gabriela Kubíková, was quoted in a @brusselstimes.com article on @ec.europa.eu's Livestock Strategy. 🐄 “In an ideal world, any ‘livestock’ strategy would propose a ban on factory farming,” she said. 🔗 Read the article → tinyurl.com/yc48xzr8 #AnimalWelfare

❓Why don’t we like the word ‘livestock’? 🐄 Because animals are more than what humans use them for. They’re individuals with needs, preferences & social lives. 💭 We’re ALL animals – and language shapes how we see & treat each other. 🔗More from @animalthinktank.bsky.social → tinyurl.com/52fyudfr

🦐 Half of EU shrimp imports come from intensive farms in Ecuador. 🐟 They are fed 178,000 t of wild fish each year, reducing food supplies for people. 🌳 Farms often replace mangroves, & shrimps produce the most GHGs after beef or lamb. 🔗Report from @foodrise-eu.bsky.social → tinyurl.com/39tr29nc

🏆 Julie Elie (UC Berkeley) has won this year’s @collerdolittle.bsky.social prize for two-way Inter-species communication. 🐦 Her research identified 11 core "words" in zebra finch communication, bringing us a step closer to understanding the language of animals. 🔗More → tinyurl.com/y8tc3avt

🐖 @ec.europa.eu has announced cage-free reform for pigs, aiming to transition from crates to pens by Q2 2027. 🐔 It also pledges to phase out cages for hens and broilers – but with no date stated. ❓With no plans for other species, and major gaps, concerns remain. #AnimalWelfare

🚫 @ec.europa.eu wants to remove leather from its Deforestation Regulation. 🐄Meat from deforested land would be banned, but hides from the same animals could still enter the EU. 🌳This risks fueling deforestation & industrial animal farming. 🔗 More here → tinyurl.com/2dc4yvc6

🐟 Wild anchovies & sardines are being turned into feed for Europe’s fish farms. 🚫 Aquaculture harms the aquatic animals it farms & uses up wild ones that millions of people rely on for food. More → tinyurl.com/26w9r273

🚨 Methane from industrial animal farming is a major driver of climate change. 📨 30+ organizations ask Commissioner Hansen to ensure the EU Livestock Strategy urgently addresses agricultural methane. 🐄 In the EU, 60% of methane comes from raising farmed animals. 🔗Read it → tinyurl.com/24rcny6t

🎉 17 Member States have backed @ec.europa.eu’s proposed restriction on lead in ammunition. 🦆 Lead from hunting and fishing poisons wildlife, pollutes habitats, & harms people. ⚠️ @europarl.europa.eu could still face attempts to block this vital measure. #AnimalWelfare

☀️ As Europe’s heatwave continues, many animals can’t escape the extreme temperatures. 🐔 Crowded, airless industrial farms become ovens. 🇫🇷 French chicken farms have reported hundreds of deaths in just days. 🔗More here → tinyurl.com/2r2s4f23 #AnimalWelfare

⁉️ Confused by @ec.europa.eu’s omnibus regulations and what they mean for animals? 🐄 Our Omnibus Tracker provides a clear, centralized overview of the 10 proposals & their impacts on animal protection. 🔗 animallaweurope.org/omnibus-trac... #AnimalWelfare

🚨 As @ec.europa.eu delays its fur farming decision again, @politico.com poses questions over lobbying. 🦊 While 1.5M Europeans backed a fur ban, the IFF pushed for stricter welfare standards instead – while being funded by a St. Petersburg fur auction house. #AnimalWelfare #FurFreeEurope

🚨 Out now: “Animals in EU Economic Law” edited by Prof. Aude-Solveig Epstein and @alicediconcetto.bsky.social. 📕 The book explores ways in which economic law could better protect animals & prioritize their welfare. 🔗 Order here (20% off with code PALAUT) → tinyurl.com/4vxp2yry #EULaw #AnimalLaw

🚛 It’s #BanLiveExports International Awareness Day! 📑 Yet another study, this time by DG SANTE, finds that the current system is antiquated & needs reforming. 🔗Read it → tinyurl.com/23w2ed83 #StopTheTrucks #AnimalWelfare

🦞 In honor of #CrustaceanCompassionDay2026, a screening of ‘Seantience’ by Animal Ethics. 🦀The film explores the inner lives of aquatic animals & makes the ethical implications of their sentience impossible to dismiss. 🎞️ Register to watch @ 20:00 CEST → tinyurl.com/2rd3t4dr #CCDay2026

🐖 Big news from Denmark: a new Ministry of Nature & Animal Welfare, taking on much of the work of the former ministers for food and agriculture. 🚔 #AnimalWelfare enforcement moves to the Justice Ministry. 🤞Let's hope it leads to strong commitments for animals in the EU institutions, too.

📕 At #UKAnimalLawCon2026, Aude-Solveig Epstein & @alicediconcetto.bsky.social presented their book, “Animals in EU Economic Law.” 🐟 Today, Alice joins the Intl #Aquaculture Law & Policy Symposium on aquatic #AnimalWelfare reform. 🔗 20% off the book with code PALAUT→ tinyurl.com/4vxp2yry

🐖 Denmark’s new government pledges better pig welfare, with tail-docking enforced by 2030 & extreme breeding by 2035. 🚚 They’ll also reduce live animal exports, end caged pig farming, & impose a CO₂ tax on livestock. 🐟 Water protection will also increase. #AnimalWelfare #BeLikeDenmark

🧪 @ec.europa.eu has launched a roadmap to phase out animal use in chemical safety assessments. 💊 Implementation starts now; progress will be reviewed in 2029. 🔗Read more → tinyurl.com/3n7p98ep #AnimalWelfare #3Rs #EndAnimalExperiments #CrueltyFree

📚 In her latest paper, our Legislative Advocacy Manager @gabrielakubikova.bsky.social examines the legislation governing the welfare of chickens. 🐔 The article calls for evidence-based #AnimalWelfare reform & a rethink of our broader #foodsystem. 🔗Read it here → tinyurl.com/bddbes88