Animal Welfare Food Community Japan Webinar

The Institute’s Director of Advocacy, Olga Kikou, will present at a webinar organized by Animal Welfare Food Community Japan, on October 31st. Olga will discuss prospective changes for farmed animals under the new European Commission.

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On October 30th, the Jeremy Coller Foundation (Coller Animal Law Forum) will organize a webinar on the topic of climate change litigation and factory farming, with Daina Bray (Yale Law School), Edie Bowles (Animal Law Foundation) and Nieves Noval, moderated by Alice Di Concetto and Celine Montloin.

French MPs Submit Proposal Calling for the End of Caged Farming for Laying Hens in the EU

Gabriela Kubíková (Legislative Advocacy Manager) was quoted in Vegconomist about the recent proposal by a resolution to end cages in EU law submitted in the French Parliament.

hens in cages

French MPs join call to end caged farming

We already know that Europe’s citizens want to see an end to caged farming, with 1.4 million adding their signatures to the ‘End the Cage Age’ ECI. We also know that in 2021, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for a ban. Now, just ahead of the European Commission’s release of its Work Programme for 2026, it seems that more than 30 French MPs – most of whom are on the right or center of the political spectrum – feel the same way.

Hens confined in battery cages in an industrial egg-laying barn. Spain, 2010.
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