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New campaign for the World Day of Laboratory Animals: our pets want a revolution!
From now on the Antwerp Zoo and Planckendael will apply a no kill policy regarding "surplus" animals.
"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
A Christmas ad urging the public not to eat foie gras
New report on the welfare of ducks in foie gras production
New images of animal suffering on Flemish fur farms
For World Animal Day, opt for hen-friendly mayonnaise!
The Flemish Court of First Instance in Brussels upheld the decision by the Flemish Minister for Animal Welfare, Ben Weyts, to ban slaughter without prior stunning on temporary sites as required by EU law.
GAIA-activist protests as crocodile against animals suffering for Hermès
Every year thousands of animals undergo painful tests in European labs for the development of … cleaning products. GAIA wants this to be prohibited.
Save animals from laboratories
Major Belgian TV channels are broadcasting a new GAIA advert over the next two weeks denouncing the atrocious treatment Argentinean horses are subjected to before ending up on the plates of Belgian consumers.
Thanks to the staunch support of our members, GAIA's on-going campaign against battery cages for hens won a number of new victories in recent months, thereby sparing thousands of laying hens the misery of life in battery cages.
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.”
New pan-European campaign
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 offers chocolate to celebrate the new decree
