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Animal welfare

Animal welfare

Who Do We Eat? – the EU Animal Welfare Legislation Under Review

Who Do We Eat? – the EU Animal Welfare Legislation Under Review

12 January 2023 Ottavia Pieretto

2023 is a crucial year for the improvement of animal welfare in Europe. As the European Commission is expected to present its new EU Animal Welfare Legislation in several months, Slow Food joined the organisation Compassion in World Farming for a screening and debate of the first episode of the ARTE documentary series “Who We …

Restoring Balance Between Humans, Animals and the Planet

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 …

Ppilow project: first results presented at Terra Madre

Ppilow project: first results presented at Terra Madre

22 September 2022 Annalisa Audino

The 2022 edition of Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, in Turin proved to be the perfect stage to tell the first results of the Ppilow project through concrete experiences of some of the partners.

Animal Welfare: citizens and farmers together for the future of breeding

Animal Welfare: citizens and farmers together for the future of breeding

21 April 2022

The fight for sustainable, animal-friendly farming is one of the focal points of the Slow Meat campaign, and part of the daily work the Slow Food movement undertakes with producers, consumers, chefs, technicians, and institutions.     The welfare of farmed animals is interconnected with the health of people and the environment: the farm, in its entirety …

Animal Welfare: The EU Parliament Must Go Beyond the Interests of Farm Lobbies

Animal Welfare: The EU Parliament Must Go Beyond the Interests of Farm Lobbies

18 February 2022

On February 15th, the European Parliament voted in favour of a disappointing and unambitious report on the welfare of animals on the farm, in total contradiction with its previous commitments to the defense of higher standards. On February 15th, the European Parliament voted in favour of a disappointing and unambitious report submitted by its Committee …

Live-Animal Transport in the EU Will Remain Inhumane

Live-Animal Transport in the EU Will Remain Inhumane

28 January 2022 Paola Nano

All hopes for an EU ban of long-distance live-animal transport and a reduction of intra-EU transport went down the drain last week. Despite the appalling conditions in which animals are currently transported, the EU Parliament voted a disappointing text, that still denies animals their right to be treated as sentient beings.   A Disappointing Vote Last …

The EU Dedicates a Conference to the Future of Animal Welfare

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 …

Emilia Romagna on the Path Towards Cage-Free Farms

Emilia Romagna on the Path Towards Cage-Free Farms

20 May 2021

The Commission for Economic Policies of the Legislative Assembly of Emilia-Romagna (Italy) has approved a resolution committing the Regional Council to support a transition towards cage-free animal farms that respect animal welfare. Slow Food welcomes this initiative and sees it as “an excellent start. But now is the time for a concrete framework of action: …

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

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 …

Uruguay Welcomes its First Earth Market: Colonia Valdense Joins the Slow Food Network

Uruguay Welcomes its First Earth Market: Colonia Valdense Joins the Slow Food Network

11 March 2021

The network of Earth Markets, farmers’ markets that follow Slow Food principles, is expanding to Uruguay, bringing the number of countries with at least one market to 28. Uruguay’s first Earth Market is in Colonia Valdense, a small town in the south of the country. Here, a group of producers have already been meeting weekly for …

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