Alice Di Concetto

🐰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

💡 REGISTER FOR FREE

Join our insightful workshop with the aWISH project, to explore the powerful impact of #AnimalWelfare indicators on improving welfare measures across the EU.

Sign up here: bit.ly/40S5Oks

Any questions? Drop them below! 👇

📉Billions of animals are slaughtered yearly—even under EU laws meant to protect them.

⚖️ Legal loopholes allow cruel practices to continue.

🌱We need an EU Action Plan for #PlantBased foods—to protect animals, people & the planet.

🔗 More here → tinyurl.com/3a85x4r7

Un zoo danois nourrit-il ses prédateurs avec des animaux domestiques ? - Les Surligneurs

❓Is it legal for zoos to feed companion animals to wild animals in captivity?

💬 Our Director @alicediconcetto.bsky.social answered in this piece by @lessurligneurs.bsky.social (in 🇫🇷) about yet another objectionable practice taking place in European zoos. ⤵︎
lessurligneurs.eu/un-zoo-danoi...

The estimated cost of water pollution from animal-sourced food production reached €25 billion in 2022 in the EU

💦Intensive animal farming fuels #water scarcity & pollution in the EU.

💀 Nitrogen & phosphorus runoff creates aquatic dead zones.

❌Factory farming harms animals, people & the planet.

🔗 More here → animallaweurope.org/wp-content/u...

Jo-Anne McArthur / Djurrattsalliansen / We Animals. Sweden, 2010.

🇧🇬 In a ruling handed down on Monday, the Bulgarian Supreme Court has confirmed the legality of the national mink farming ban, stating that this ban was proportionate in light of environmental objectives.

⚖️ Ruling (in Bulgarian) → bit.ly/46RDYZt

The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity was first produced in 1995 as a comprehensive resource for the public, the media, scientists, students, and policymakers to learn the various

🐬 DYK bottlenose dolphins use unique whistles to address each other by ‘name’?
🗨️ They’re the only non-human animals known to do this, a key step in language evolution.
🐳 Orcas have shown similar behavior.
🔗 More → tinyurl.com/54cdw3ky

77% of farmland used to grow cereal crops to feed farmed animals Meat and dairy provide only 18% of calories for humans Image © heartsnminds

❗77% of farmland grows feed for farmed animals, yet meat & dairy give only 18% of our calories.

🌱 We need an EU Action Plan for #PlantBased foods—to protect animals, our health & the planet.

♥️ Let’s choose compassion, sustainability & a better future.

🔗 More → tinyurl.com/yp85yc5c @eeb.org

The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court has announced that it will uphold the Ministerial Order banning breeding and import of American mink.

This hopefully means a permanent end to fur farming in Bulgaria. The last mink fur farm shut down earlier this year.

info-adc.justice.bg/courts/porta...

Five Incredible Ways Birds Change Their Bodies for Spring and Fall Migration To power perilous journeys, birds undergo extreme feats like doubling their body weight and rearranging or even consuming their internal organs.

❓DYK about the amazing adaptions some birds make before migrating?
❗Some shrink or grow their organs, burn muscle for fuel, or double their body weight.
🌎 All to power their perilous journeys across the globe.
🔗 More amazing bird facts → tinyurl.com/6rybruc5

🇩🇰 Aalborg Zoo wants the public to donate healthy guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens & even horses to feed its predators.

💉The animals would be “gently euthanised.”

‼️Highlights how difficult - or impossible - it is to meet animals' needs in captivity.

🔗More → tinyurl.com/2khx8cwd

Self-Awareness and Personhood in Non-Human Animals Beyond simple consciousness or sentience, some non-human animals may possess more sophisticated cognitive abilities linked to capacities for self-awareness or even personhood, capacities that may infl...

Our new book chapter is out, looking at self-awareness/personhood in nonhuman animals, and how it may relate to questions of suffering
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

🚨 EFSA’s opinion on #furfarming confirms that small barren cages harm animals, & #AnimaWelfare can’t improve without systemic change.

🇪🇺 13 Member States have already banned fur farming.

🚫It is high time to abolish it in the EU.

🔗 www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajourn...

📷 @weanimals.bsky.social

🚨Animal #agriculture is a significant driver of #climatechange.

📋 In the EU, it causes 70% of agri emissions—yet remains one of the least regulated industries.

🔗 Learn more in our Research Note → tinyurl.com/4dm5rzxz

🐄 Just published!🐄 EFSA releases a scientific opinion & technical report on beef cattle welfare in the EU. Welfare risks, best practices & system-level insight — all in one place. 🔗 europa.eu/!TtY4bY

#AnimalWelfare #BeefCattle #EFSA_EU

🐟 Up to 1.3B fish are slaughtered yearly in EU aquaculture.

🌊 Nearly 90% of marine stocks are overfished or maxed out, fueled by aquaculture.

🚫 Crowding causes stress, disease, and suffering.

🔗 More in our Research Note 7→
animallaweurope.org/publications...

🐥Chickens live 10+ years, but most broilers are killed at just 5–6 weeks.

📈They’re the most farmed animals in the bloc, with at least 6 billion slaughtered yearly.

🚫 90% live out their short lives on intensive farms.

🔗 More in our Policy Brief → tinyurl.com/32n2y4pw

📷 @weanimals.bsky.social

🚨 Save the date! 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 Curtain: the Food Industry's Marketing Tricks” on 11 Sept at 18:45 CET.

🔗 More → vegansummit.eu

#vegan #foodsystems

German customs officials find 1,500 tarantulas hidden in cake boxes The tarantulas were discovered about three weeks ago, but the customs office only made the images public on Monday.

German customs officials find 1,500 tarantulas hidden in cake boxes at airport www.euronews.com/2025/07/14/g...

Landmark ruling says Spanish pig farm pollution breaches human rights The community looks forward to its reservoir becoming ‘a place of life again’, where residents can walk, swim and drink without fear.

“Lawyers say the case now paves the way for suffering communities to bring replica suits across Europe, to demand justice and protection from their authorities.” 👏
Congrats to @amigasdelatierra.bsky.social @cecuconsumo.bsky.social and all those behind the case!
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

@alicediconcetto.bsky.social is quoted in @voxdotcom.bsky.social on a new Swiss law requiring animal products to disclose cruel production methods.

🛒 She says restaurants & stores, rather than consumers, may shun such products to avoid negative association.

🔗 More → tinyurl.com/3zyysbmp