NGO focused on farmed animal welfare standards and international trade policy 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 #stopcruelimports
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🇧🇷Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill to ban the production & sale of foie gras.
If Lula signs, it's a Latin American first.
A production ban alone still lets the cruelty in through imports. Sales bans like this closes the gapđź‘Ź
Read more: bit.ly/4o5xiNQ
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"Reflecting welfare standards at the border is a logical step — supported by the people who produce and the people who buy."
@RainerKravets, API Co-Executive Director, on new polling: ~80% of farmers want imports held to NZ welfare standards.
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More than 50 cross party MPs and Peers have today written to @EmmaforWycombe to urge Govt: Don't trade away the promise of a Fur Free Britain labourhome.co.uk/labour_mps_…
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After just 15 days of the EU / Mercosur trade agreement, Argentina 🇦🇷 already hit its egg 🥚 export quota
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Argentina completĂł el 100% de la cuota de las exportaciones de huevos hacia la UniĂłn Europea a 15 dĂas de la entrada en vigor del acuerdo comercial.
Las ventas al bloque europeo alcanzaron las 333 toneladas. Son huevos procedentes de distintas granjas de Entre RĂos, CĂłrdoba y Buenos Aires que pasan por la planta de procesamiento para luego ser distribuidos por el viejo continente.
Detrás de este nuevo logro del campo argentino hay mucho trabajo de los productores, inversiones, mejora en la competitividad local y apertura de mercados.
Profundizar el comercio con la Unión Europea y avanzar en acuerdos que reduzcan aranceles es fundamental para que las empresas argentinas puedan exportar más y mejor.
Felicitaciones @PALavigne83 @pabloquirno !! 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
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Just days after EU-Mercosur entered into force, Brazil faces a meat export ban for failing to meet EU antimicrobial rules.
If the political will is there for this, it has to be there for animal welfare too.
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🇬🇧 Labour MPs seek better labelling and stricter import standards - fwi.co.uk/news/farm-policy/l…
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Seven in 10 Brits would avoid restaurants serving lower-welfare eggs - via @FarmingUK farminguk.com/news/seven-in-…
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Hold imports to Kiwi standards, farmers say - via @FarmersWeeklyNZ @Gerharduysbeer farmersweekly.co.nz/news/hol…
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What do 78% of New Zealand farmers want? Political parties to commit to making imports meet domestic welfare standards.
The wider public agrees too - over 80%, consistently.
With an election ahead, parties have a clear mandate.
Read more 👉animalpolicyinternational.or…
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This is already happening. More is coming.
Stay tuned.
#StopCruelImports @AWF_Germany
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🇪🇺@NJDullaghan on why applying welfare standards to imports is one of the most impactful and tractable animal welfare policies the EU could pursue right now
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The EU's largest-ever farmed animal welfare consultation has spoken and the results are unambiguous: 99% want cages phased out for laying hens and pigs. 96% want imported food to meet the same welfare standards as EU-produced.
Read the full analysis: animalpolicyinternational.or…
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Ministers should secure an explicit animal welfare carve-out in trade negotiations. Imports must meet the same welfare standards required of UK producers. Practices deemed unacceptable on British farms should not be permitted through imports
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NZ Farmers calling for same animal welfare standards on local and imported pork rnz.co.nz/news/country/58806…
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“You can’t promise to ban foie gras and fur sales, then quietly negotiate away the legal power to deliver on those promises. If it’s too cruel to produce here, it’s too cruel to import.” - Tashi Thomas, Head of UK Policy, API
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🇳🇿NZ farmers left sow stalls and battery cages behind. Imports haven’t.
Unfair on farmers. Unfair on animals. Unfair on Kiwis.
New #FairforFarmers campaign says it plainly: If it’s not ok to produce here, it’s not ok to import and sell.
@the_postnz
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The UK banned battery cages, sow stalls & fur farming bc these practices are too cruel, but the EU trade deal may stop us applying these standards to imports ❌️ The farming committee urges the Gov to secure welfare exemptions, like Switzerland did @amcarmichaelMP @JayneKirkham4
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EFRA member @JayneKirkham4 asks Chair @amcarmichaelMP about the importance of protecting UK farmers when negotiating new trade deals.
Find out more about the Committee's report into UK-EU trade: committees.parliament.uk/com…
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News in Trade: The EFRA Select Committee has urged the Government to pursue a Swiss-style exemption from dynamic alignment on animal welfare in the UK-EU SPS Agreement. This recommendation echoes calls from animal protection groups. Read more ➡️
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