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Animal Welfare and Products
Each year the welfare of the millions of animals raised for their milk, meat and eggs for human consumption is seriously, and often savagely, abused. Furthermore, the way we treat farm animals and process animal products is inextricably linked to our general wellbeing: from human health to environmental sustainability, social justice to food security.
Animals are sentient beings and we owe them a life free of pain and fear, in which they are free to express their natural behaviour as much as possible. With the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon the European Union confirmed animal welfare as fundamental, and to be considered at the same level as the protection of human health. However, despite this important move, minimum welfare conditions are still not guaranteed far too often.
For both small- and large-scaler farmers, making animal welfare a priority is an added value. Good living conditions for animals means better health and less stress for the animals and subsequently less disease and use of drugs, lower production costs and improved product quality in terms of both taste and nutrition.
Slow Food is not calling for a world without meat, but the meat-producing system Slow Food envisages differs sharply from the one now practiced in the developed world. Choosing to eat less but better meat, and favoring local breeds where possible, can have a big impact.
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Italy | 02/11/2012 | Experts, academics, small-scale farmers, civil society and intergovernmental organizations discuss the...
Italy | 11/04/2012 | In a system where terrible industry standards of battery chicken farming is the norm, the Cascina Santa Brera...
Belgium | 25/03/2012 | Animal welfare groups welcome the new European law banning battery cages but question how much better the new...
Italy | 22/03/2012 | Most of the meat and dairy we eat comes from livestock raised in horrific conditions. According to Slow Food...
United States | 29/11/2011 | The American food writer and New York Times columnist talks to us about sustainability, meat and how to feed...
Sweden | 01/08/2011 | The traditional Sámi dish that bonded a Swedish chef and Australian Aboriginal elder during Indigenous Terra...
Australia | 26/07/2011 | Extinct in its home country, the Wessex saddleback pig thrives in small pockets here.
Italy | 23/05/2011 | Slow Food President Carlo Petrini talks about the importance of protecting diversity of domesticated animals...
United Kingdom | 12/05/2010 | Slow Food North Yorkshire screens exposé documentary on industrial pork production
China | 03/02/2010 | Defenders of traditional cuisine and animal rights activists battle over potential ban on eating dog and cat...
United States | 26/11/2009 | Americans celebrate Thanksgiving with heritage breed turkeys
Paraguay | 10/11/2009 | A new investigation reveals the costs of cheap meat arriving in Europe from Latin America.
Luxembourg | 21/07/2009 |
New Zealand | 20/05/2009 | The plight of the honeybees: the latest news, possible soultions and a Scottish call to action
Belgium | 15/05/2009 | Belgian city encourages its citizens to consume a vegetarian diet one day a week to support sustainable...
United Kingdom | 11/05/2009 | A special breed of cow developed during the Second World War lives on today in England.
United Kingdom | 02/02/2009 | Co-op supermarket bans suppliers from using eight pesticides believed to harm bee colonies
Germany | 28/01/2009 | Germans urged to reduce their meat consumption and adopt a more sustainable Mediterranean diet.
United States | 27/01/2009 | Tamar Adler is trying to convince all of suburban California to buy animals whole
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