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Restoring Balance Between Humans, Animals and the Planet

24 September 2022

Slow Food Releases its New Position Paper on Animal Welfare On September 23, Slow Food presented its position paper on animal welfare, “Beyond Welfare: We Owe Animals Respect” during Terra Madre – Salone Del Gusto, at the “All we need is Slow Farming” conference, in the presence of Andrea Gavinelli, head of the Animal Welfare …

“Cultivated Meat is no Silver Bullet” by Carlo Petrini

9 February 2022 Carlo Petrini

The new year has only just begun but the food trends that are likely to be most talked about in 2022 are already taking shape. One of them will be without doubt artificial meat, or in vitro meat, or cultivated meat (several names exist to describe it). It is the result of elaborated bioengineering techniques …

The EU Dedicates a Conference to the Future of Animal Welfare

10 December 2021 Yael Pantzer & Alice Poiron

The ball is slowly starting to roll in the world of EU animal welfare legislation! On December 9, the EU Commission gathered stakeholders from various backgrounds for a one-day conference on the future of animal welfare in Europe, where Jacopo Goracci, coordinator of Slow Food Razza Maremmana Presidium in Tuscany, Italy, bring the voice of small-scale agroecological …

Animal Welfare’s Most Complex Issues: From Extensive Farming to Stunning

12 November 2021 JACOPO GORACCI

The industrial approach has transformed livestock farming into “zootechnics”—the science and technology of exploiting animal production—and farmers into “agricultural entrepreneurs.” The industrial principles of economies of scale and pervasive mechanization have greatly impacted the living conditions of farmed animals, animals that we know to be sentient beings, able to feel emotions, suffering and stress and …

What is Animal Welfare: the themes of “Ppillow” project featured at Cheese 2021

4 October 2021

Every year the welfare of millions of animals raised for their meat, milk and eggs is seriously compromised. For years, Slow Food has stressed the need to introduce measures that take animal welfare into account, supporting farmers who choose to improve their standards beyond what is required by national laws. An issue dear to the …

Slow Food Heroes: a 4.0 shepherd helps Covid care units

16 September 2021

Slow Food Heroes is a project financed by European Cultural Foundation, with the contribution of CRC Foundation. This week we’ll tell you the story of Leonardo Angelucci, who donated the entire proceeds from the Easter farm product sale to a Covid hospital.

Another Animal Farming in Europe is Possible (it already exists)

26 April 2021 Alice Poiron

In the last 70 years, industrial farming has polluted water, impoverished soils, caused suffering to animals, damaged biodiversity, destroyed forests, all to produce – mostly poor quality – meat and milk. Today, our environmental and social bills are through the roof. Yet, many small-scale agroecological farmers across Europe have turned their backs on industrial meat …

“Become a Beefatarian”: the absurd EU campaign calling for an increase in meat consumption.

2 December 2020

Become a beefatarian: EU launches “Become a Beefatarian”, an absurd campaign, supported with public funds, which invites European citizens to increase their consumption of meat, without questioning environmental sustainability, animal welfare or climate justice There is perhaps no question on how the climate crisis – and in particular the great impact of food production on …

ECI “End the Cage Age” Ranks the Best and the Worst EU Members & the UK in Cage-Free Animal Farming

19 August 2020

The European Citizens’ Initiative “End the Cage Age” has collected data from all 27 EU Member States and the UK to rate them based on the percentage of cage-free farmed animals in each country. Whilst some EU countries such as Sweden, Luxembourg, Austria, and Germany have more than 85 percent cage-free farming, in reality, this …

Animal cause, capital cause”: which is the best way?

6 May 2020

Let us rethink livestock farming systems to make them respectful of the environment, health and, above all, animal welfare. We are hearing more and more often these days that for the good of animals, the planet and our health, we urgently need to stop eating meat and, indeed, all animal by-products–thereby putting an end to …