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🆕 ARTICLE 🔎 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 #𝗛𝗣𝗔𝗜.

🔗 Read the full article: avec-poultry.eu/news/why-the...

🆕 Can consumers taste the difference when chicken production systems change? 🤔
A new study in #PoultryScience finds one clear driver of liking: #juiciness 🍽️
Read the full article 👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003257912600009X?via%3Dihub

📊The @ec.europa.eu’s EU Agri Outlook presented today at the #EUAgriFoodDays confirms a clear trend in Europe’s protein basket: While overall EU #meat #consumption is expected to decline slightly by 2035, #poultry is projected to gain ground 📈 , as consumption shifts away from beef and pigmeat.

9️⃣ 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲 🎥
Understanding #AnimalWelfare requires recognising the many interconnections – #biological, #environmental, #ethical, and #economic – that shape it. ‼️

🆕Watch the video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgfj...

#MeatTheFacts #WelfareIsOurBusiness

‼️ AMR isn’t just a health issue. It’s a governance #challenge and a shared #responsibility. To support the cause, we put together 5️⃣ 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 #𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 - read the document here 👉 avec-poultry.eu/wp-content/u...

🌍 Today is #OneHealthDay, a reminder that #human, #animal and #environmental health are all connected. 🖇️
🎬 Curious what One Health really means? Watch this short explainer from the EU 👇 Video credits: European Commission, 2023

⚠️ Today, the @europarl.europa.eu voted to protect #transparency in food #labelling, ensuring that words like #burger, #steak or #fillet remain reserved for #real #meat products 🍔 🥩 🍗 - a most welcome decision.
If it’s not from a chicken 🌿, DON'T call it chicken 🐔.

🪶NEW ARTICLE: An Empty Promise - The #Mercosur Safeguard That Will NEVER Work for Poultry. 🚫

The EU-Mercosur safeguard clause is presented as a safety net for EU #farmers but in reality, it will never be triggered for poultry meat. Find out why 👉 avec-poultry.eu/news/explain...

💶 COST MATTERS THE MOST - The latest @efsa.europa.eu pa.eu Eurobarometer (2025) shows that 60% of #Europeans cite #cost as their top factor when choosing food 🔺 up 9 percentage points since 2019. 🛒
📌 As cost pressures grow, it is vital that EU policies protect consumers’ right to choose.

❓ Did you know that in the EU, households account for 53% of all #FoodWaste - around 70 kg per person each year? 🤔
🆘 Here are 7 simple #tips to help reduce #waste in your #kitchen. Because small daily choices, multiplied across millions of households, can make a big impact. 👉

"A close-up of a rusty lock on a wooden barn door with text overlaid. The yellow box at the top says: 'Control who comes IN and OUT.' A teal circle at the bottom says: 'Control access & disinfect anything or anyone exposed to poultry or wild birds—no exceptions.'"

Our #NoBirdFlu toolkit aims aim to improve farm biosecurity to stop avian influenza.

Control who enters and who leaves your farm and disinfect anything exposed to poultry or wild birds.

Learn more: link.europa.eu/TQxq8K

#NoBirdFlu #AvianInfluenza | @ec.europa.eu; @efsa-biohaw.bsky.social

🇪🇺 #LabelIt - To truly “Buy European food”, consumers need ORIGIN LABELLING 🆘

🪶 Extending #OriginLabelling to all products is the only way to give #consumers real choice and ensure fair competition for EU farmers.

#EUpoultry

If you want to know what happened last week at our #AVECGA2025 read our press release here ➡️ avec-poultry.eu/news/avec-co...
📸Bonus highlights in pictures.

🌞 GOOD MORNING from COPENHAGEN, where the 67th AVEC General Assembly is about to kick off! 🚀
💡 Competitiveness in a Changing World: This year, we’re exploring what #competitiveness means for the future of #EUPoultry and Europe’s #agrifood sector.

🎬 It’s almost time!
From 4–7 September, the 67th AVEC General Assembly will take place in Copenhagen, hosted by our member Danish Agriculture & Food Council 🇩🇰.

🐔 #AVECGA2025 #EUPoultry #Competitiveness

🆕 The AVEC 2025 Annual Report provides a comprehensive overview of our activities and future priorities. 📊
🔗 Download the report 👉 avec-poultry.eu/resources/an...

Mark your calendar for the next meeting of the #SustainableLivestockIntergroup!
📅 11 September🕑 10:00 AM –12:00 PM (TBC)📍
EU parliament- Strasbourg
📩Register via: form.jotform.com/252032242204...

🎙️NEW PODCAST - The vaccine dilemma: Tackling avian influenza on a global basis

💡 Our SecGen, BirtheSteenberg, joins the #ONEHealth Live podcast to share insights from Europe’s pioneering efforts against #HPAI 👇 www.buzzsprout.com/2502942/epis...

#biosecurity #vaccination #EUPoultry

The recently launched @oecd-ocde.bsky.social @fao.org Agricultural Outlook 2025–2034 confirms that 🐔 #poultry is the growth engine of the global meat complex.
👉 AVEC compiled a snapshot of poultry production & meat consumption statistics.
📌 Find the original report: www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

"Investing in the prevention of animal diseases is investing in our future. This needs to reach not only veterinarians, but also policymakers, economists, and society as a whole.” - says ‪‪E. Soubeyran, DG ‬of @woahglobal.bsky.social, at @animalhealtheu.bsky.social conference on #PreventingDiseaseX.

💡In today’s farming debates, nuance matters more than ever. Europe's #livestock sector is diverse, highly regulated, and evolving 👉 not easily boxed into binaries.
📌 If you want to know more about the European livestock value chain, visit the #ELV website: ➡️ meatthefacts.eu
#MeattheFacts #EUPoultry

📮 Postcards from Japan 🇯🇵
This week, we're in Tokyo representing the #EUPoultry sector🐥 as part of the official 🇪🇺 EU Agri-Food Business Mission to Japan, led by Commissioner Hansen & @DG Agri, alongside 100+ #AgriFood businesses from 22 countries.
Stay tuned for more updates 🌏

🔄 Earlier this week, AVEC took part in an important dialogue at the EU Parliament on the #reciprocity of agricultural production standards in international trade, hosted by MEPs Benoit Cassart, Charles Goerens, Camilla Laureti and Eric Sargiacomo.
✅ #Reciprocity is achievable, necessary, and urgent!

👀 What would we lose with a drastic drop in livestock, and why you might be surprised? 🤯
📅 19 June | 🕑 10:00–12:00 | 📍 Room WIC 100, European Parliament, Strasbourg | 📹 Online access available | ✏️ Register here: form.jotform.com/250981464649...

🤔 Did you know that Broilers use vocalisation as a form of expression to communicate ❓
🎧 Bioacoustics (the analysis of variations in the frequency and patterns of these vocalizations) allow us to make an accurate assessment of the animals’ #health and #welfare.
📌 broilernet.eu/monitoring-t...

From poultry waste to food packaging: the end of plastic wrap as we know it? - Viss Project With plastic pollution suffocating the planet, a new generation of bioplastics could change the game. Made from poultry waste, it replaces fossil-based polymers with biobased ones, bringing us closer ...

From poultry waste to food packaging: the end of plastic wrap as we know it? 👉 viss-project.eu/from-poultry...

🌏 An inaugural global overview of animal health by @woahglobal.bsky.social, the State of the World’s Animal Health report provides a clear, evidence-based overview of the global #AnimalHealth landscape. Read the key findings 👉 www.woah.org/en/the-state...

YouTube video by Nourish – Your Choice Free to choose what we eat ... but science tells us nutrient-dense foods are essential

📹 According to nutritional epidemiologist, Professor Andrew Mente, excluding nutrient-dense foods such as red meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy can compromise our ability to meet essential daily nutrient needs.
🫶 We support balanced choices, not blanket eliminations. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbcH...

🤔How risky is Avian Influenza EXACTLY❓A must-read analysis by @fao.org @woahglobal.bsky.social and
@who.int 👉
www.woah.org/app/uploads/...

👥🤝👥 Last week, we met with Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi and his team to discuss key priorities for the #EUPoultry sector. #Trade #MarketAccess #AnimalHealth, #AvianInfluenza #vaccination #transport #Sustainability #labelling #FoodSecurity #ECC 🙏Thank you for a constructive exchange.