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Update on the achievements of GAIA during the periode of september - december 2019.
In close collaboration with GAIA, Continental Foods - the Belgian leader in agri-food - commits to no longer sourcing chickens bred to grow extremely quickly in Belgium, Finland, France, Germany and Sweden by 2026.
On 18 July, Brussels-Capital Region got a new government. Good news: responsibility for animal welfare now comes within the remit of a Minister, Bernard Clerfayt (DéFI) instead of a Secretary of State (Bianca Debaets, CD&V in the previous legislature).
KFC decided, in close co-operation with GAIA, to raise the welfare standards of its chickens. The chain is promising to end the use of rapid-growth breeds of chicken for its restaurants in Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Netherlands and United Kingdom, by 2026.
On 25 April 2019, the VAT reduction was approved by the Chamber.
On January 1, 2019, many things will change in terms of animal welfare.
The company made this decision in consultation with the animal rights organization GAIA. A first in the business world.
GAIA welcomes the Parliament of Wallonia’s adoption this afternoon of the Walloon Code of Animal Welfare. The Animal Welfare Code is an initiative of Minister of Animal Welfare Carlo Di Antonio (cdH).
GAIA: ‘A first in Belgium, which brings hope for the tens of thousands of animals suffering in the laboratories of the Brussels region’
Too many unanswered questions, and the university fails to give adequate guarantees to prevent a repetition of the scenario
Michel Vandenbosch: "For GAIA, this is the result of 25 years of activism. Hundreds of thousands of sheep and cattle will finally escape the unnecessary and avoidable suffering of having their throats cut while fully conscious."
Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme - "the Muscles from Brussels" - and GAIA announce the start of a closer collaboration for animal welfare.
You only want to wear labels who don’t use fur? You are so right! GAIA can help you find fashion that is guaranteed fur-free.
"Stunning is the only way to minimize animal suffering"
Animal rights organisation GAIA has published the overwhelming findings of a recent investigation conducted in Argentina and Uruguay on the trade in horse meat for export to the EU and Belgium.
Against the suffering of ducks and geese for the production of foie gras
New report on the welfare of ducks in foie gras production
Save animals from laboratories
The answer’s right under our noses
*On April 17th, we learned that the Planckendael zoo, one of Belgium’s largest zoos, had killed three young, healthy animals (an oryx and two bison) and used them as food for the zoo’s resident carnivores. Planckendael called it “euthanasia.”
Wallonia’s Minister of Animal Welfare, Carlo di Antonio, will require as of 2017 that all cats in Wallonia must be sterilised or castrated. The Brussels-Capital Region will follow suit, according to Vice-Minister for Animal Welfare, Bianca Debaets.
GAIA blocks an authorization issued by Province of East Flanders
GAIA welcomes the adoption on first reading yesterday by the Council of Ministers of the Brussels-Capital Region of a proposal to ban fur farms.
