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New campaign to ban live cooking of lobsters

GAIA action

20 October 2020

In a new campaign GAIA calls the three regional animal welfare ministers to ban the live cooking and cutting in half of lobsters. “We want lobsters, at the very least, to be stunned before killing so that they do not have to experience pain,” says GAIA chairman Michel Vandenbosch.
“It’s hip to snip” and “Balls must be gone before getting it on”

GAIA action

06 July 2020

88% of house cats in Belgium are sterilised. This is shown by an Ipsos survey carried out for GAIA[1]. “Encouraging figures”, says GAIA director Ann De Greef. “But we mustn’t forget that despite the legal obligation, in Flanders about 160,775 cats still haven’t been sterilised/castrated, in Brussels 302.441 and in Wallonia 1,321,116.
GAIA’S LARGE-FORMAT POSTERS ALONGSIDE FLEMISH ROADS ADVOCATE FOR A BAN ON CAGE SYSTEMS FOR LAYING HENS

GAIA action

19 May 2020

Since yesterday, the 18th of May, large-format posters were put up alongside Flemish roads. The slogan “En wanneer mogen zij uit hun kot?” (And when will the lockdown end for them?) aims to remind Ben Weyts (N-VA), the Flemish Minister of Animal Welfare, of his promise to impose a ban on cages for laying hens.
TURKEY WELFARE FORGOTTEN BY THE LEGISLATOR

GAIA action

20 December 2019

In October 2019, GAIA field researchers examined the situation at three turkey farms in West Flanders. What they found were distressing situations in an unregulated sector: thousands of turkeys crammed into tight spaces, severely weakened, dying and injured animals, covered in all manner of wounds, turkeys with severely damaged feathers, animals with dead skin on their backs and flanks, carcasses in an advanced state of decomposition, poultry house floors covered with faeces, turkeys smeared with faeces, etc.
Brigitte Bardot supports GAIA’s campaign against kangaroo meat

GAIA action

26 November 2019

In an open letter to Carrefour Belgium, Carrefour France, Cora and Auchan, Brigitte Bardot condemns the sale of kangaroo meat in their stores. By doing so, the world-renowned actress has aligned herself with GAIA’s ‘Save the kangaroo’ campaign.
Brigitte Bardot receives the GAIA Lifetime Achievement Award

GAIA action

13 October 2019

Brigitte Bardot—who celebrated her 85th birthday on 28 September—has received the GAIA Lifetime Achievement Award. The award itself reveals why she is the one to receive it: two open hands lifting up seven animals, including a horse, lamb, and seal. Plus the inscription: ‘And God created the advocate for animals rights’, as a symbol of her tremendous efforts and activities.
GAIA goes on a campaign tour against cages

GAIA action

16 August 2019

On 25 July, GAIA launched its summer campaign in Brussels, attended by an outstanding ambassador: the Belgian sprinter Kevin Borlée. Hundreds of ‘Cage Fighters’ have been imprisoned in 12 Belgian cities.
Slaughtering without stunning: 17 associations demand a ban in Brussels

GAIA action

09 August 2019

Wallonia and Flanders both decided to ban slaughtering without stunning within their own regions. Brussels Region alone has not yet reached a decision on the subject. 17 associations demand a ban in an open letter to the Government and Brussels Parliament.
New ‘Cruelty Free Europe’ coalition aims to end animal testing in Europe

GAIA action

16 July 2019

On the 10th of July, Cruelty Free Europe was launched in Brussels. This new coalition, represented in Belgium by GAIA, aims to end animal testing in Europe.
Horse meat from Argentina, Uruguay and Canada depends on widespread animal suffering

GAIA action

26 June 2019

The road American horsemeat follows to get to our country is still strewn with an enormous amount of abuse, neglect, and fraud. This has been shown by new investigation carried out in Uruguay, Argentina, and Canada by the Tierschutzbund Zurich and Animal Welfare Foundation, both partner organisations of GAIA.
GAIA launches a slaughter-free meat campaign

GAIA action

13 March 2019

Is it possible to produce real meat without slaughtering animals and as such without the mass killing of animals? That is precisely the point of ‘cell-based meat’ or ‘slaughter-free meat’, a technological revolution that GAIA is proposing by way of a new website: www.kweekvlees.be and www.viandecultivee.be.
GAIA wants to ban kangaroo meat in Belgium

GAIA action

29 January 2019

Each year, about 1.6 million kangaroos are hunted and killed in particularly cruel conditions. This statistic makes the kangaroo the most hunted wild animal in the world. Unfortunately, Belgium is partly responsible for maintaining this commercial hunt, as it is the world's largest importer of kangaroo meat for human consumption.
Puppy mills: a shameless business

GAIA action

03 December 2018

In Belgium, many puppies have been acquired from bad breeders. The young animals sold by these businesses are often sick, weak, unsocialized and have been separated prematurely from their mothers.
Images so shocking they had to be "pig-xellised"

GAIA action

16 November 2018

GAIA has launched a new campaign calling for a ban on surgical castration of piglets. It has been years that the political world and pig breeders’ organisations have been promising the end of this painful practice. It's time to evolve.
End the Cage Age for all the EU's farm animals

GAIA action

23 October 2018

Across Europe, billions of animals are farmed in cages. The time has come to stand up and End the Cage Age.
GAIA-Sommertour: Das «Catmobil» sorgte am Freitag in Eupen für Aufsehen

GAIA action

17 August 2018

GAIA verlangt eine Kürzung der Mehrwertsteuer für die Sterilisierung von Katzen
Pamela Anderson writes a letter to Flemish Minister for Animal Welfare, Ben Weyts

GAIA action

16 December 2017

“Keep your promise to ban fur farming in Flanders"
A first in Belgium: GAIA organises the first, official, animal-friendly low noise fireworks display

GAIA action

16 November 2017

“A significant and undeniable advance in animal welfare, without neglecting the festive spirit”
Where love for animals ends...

GAIA action

27 September 2017

Watch our new TV spot
86% of Belgians in favour of including animals in the Constitution

GAIA action

11 September 2017

GAIA considers that it’s high time that animal welfare, the appreciation of their dignity and interests, fundamental values in Belgian society, be recognised by the country’s highest institutions.

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