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Alice Di Concetto
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A stranger in a foreign land • Also: Chief Legal Advisor at the European Institute for Animal Law & Policy (@animallaweurope.bsky.social)
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animallaweurope.bsky.social The European Institute for Animal Law & Policy @animallaweurope.bsky.social · 28d
🐄 Don’t miss "Climate Change and Factory Farming", a CALF webinar with @alicediconcetto.bsky.social, on Thursday.

⚖️ Explore how litigation can hold industrial farming & governments accountable for environmental harm.

📅 30 Oct, 15:00 CET
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/26xz8877
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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📚 Our new Policy Brief, “The Road to Reform,” shows the urgency for stronger rules on animal transport.

🚛 Talks in @europarl.europa.eu & @consilium.europa.eu stalled over journey times & temperatures – leaving 1.5B animals to suffer each year.

🔗Read it here → tinyurl.com/ysbb733y

#StopTheTrucks
October 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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🐊 Yesterday we joined “Stolen Wildlife: Closing the Loopholes in EU Wildlife Trade Regulations” at @europarl.europa.eu.

@alicediconcetto.bsky.social spoke on strengthening EU laws against the illegal #wildlife trade.

📕 Read the new Stolen Wildlife report → tinyurl.com/2jfpfbb7
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🚨 Catch @alicediconcetto.bsky.social on the panel later today at “International Disputes in Animal Law – Dynamics of Global Conflict & Cooperation”.

⚖️The webinar is hosted by GW Law’s Animal Law Program.

📅 Oct 2 | 6–7pm CEST
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/56kfurbd
October 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🐰While fur farming isn’t yet banned EU-wide, national bans, EFSA’s opinion & public pressure may pave the way.

📰 @gabrielakubikova.bsky.social asks: is this the beginning of the end for fur farming in the EU?

🔗 Read the UIA article here → tinyurl.com/533har7e

#AnimalWelfare #banfur
October 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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🇬🇧 @alicediconcetto.bsky.social & @gabrielakubikova.bsky.social are in London for today's launch of the brand new Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.

🐾 The centre will explore how animals feel — and how human choices, policies, and behaviours impact them.

🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/sentience
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🚨 @alicediconcetto.bsky.social will join the panel for “International Disputes in Animal Law: Dynamics of Global Conflict & Cooperation”.

⚖️The webinar is hosted by GW Law’s Animal Law Program.

📅 Oct 2 | 6–7pm CEST
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/56kfurbd
September 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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🐈🐕‍🦺Join us in October for the launch of our White Paper with AlmoNature & Deutscher Tierschutzbund: “The Protection of Cats & Dogs in EU Law”.

⚖️ Explore the new Regulation, opportunities & solutions with EU policymakers & protection orgs.

🗓️17 Oct, 14:00 CET
📍Zoom
🔗Sign up → tinyurl.com/ypc92pjb
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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animallaweurope.bsky.social
🇪🇺 Billions of EU farmed animals got NO mention in @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu’s #SOTEU this morning.

💪"We have always had to fight for our freedoms,” she said; what about animals’ freedoms?

🐄 We urge @ec.europa.eu to deliver stronger, more ambitious #AnimalWelfare rules to protect farmed animals.
September 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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🚨 Save the date! @alicediconcetto.bsky.social will join the panel for “International Disputes in Animal Law – Dynamics of Global Conflict & Cooperation” on Oct 2.

⚖️ The webinar is hosted by GW Law’s Animal Law Program.

📅 October 2, 6–7pm CEST
📍 Webinar
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/56kfurbd
September 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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animallaweurope.bsky.social
🇵🇱 Our Legislative Advocacy Managers, Gabriela Kubíková & Ekaterina Solomina, will be at the Conference for Animal Rights in Europe on Sept 11–14.

🐄Join them and other #AnimalWelfare advocates from across the globe in Warsaw or online.

🔗Info & registration → careconf.eu

@anima-int.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🚨 Join @alicediconcetto.bsky.social at the European Vegan Summit 2025 (9–11 Sept), hosted by the Green REV Institute.

🗨️ She’ll be on the panel “Behind the Green Mask: the Food Industry's Marketing Tricks” on 11 Sept at 18:45 CET.

🔗 More → vegansummit.eu

#EVS2025 #vegan #foodsystems
August 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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animallaweurope.bsky.social
🌊 We’ve joined the Transform Bottom Trawling Coalition to end this most destructive of fishing methods.

🐠 #BottomTrawling devastates seabeds and kills countless fish and other animals as bycatch.

🔗Learn more → transformbottomtrawling.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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🐟 The #AquaticAnimalAlliance has released its 2025 mid-year report.

🌊 Aquatic animals make up most animals used by humans but remain overlooked in policy & welfare.

🌎 As proud AAA members alongside 177 others in 75 countries, we’re working to change that!

🔗 Read more → tinyurl.com/4eermd57
August 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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💡 REGISTER FOR FREE

Join our insightful workshop with the aWISH project, to explore the powerful impact of #AnimalWelfare indicators on improving welfare measures across the EU.

Sign up here: bit.ly/40S5Oks

Any questions? Drop them below! 👇
August 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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animallaweurope.bsky.social
📉Billions of animals are slaughtered yearly—even under EU laws meant to protect them.

⚖️ Legal loopholes allow cruel practices to continue.

🌱We need an EU Action Plan for #PlantBased foods—to protect animals, people & the planet.

🔗 More here → tinyurl.com/3a85x4r7
August 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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❓Is it legal for zoos to feed companion animals to wild animals in captivity?

💬 Our Director @alicediconcetto.bsky.social answered in this piece by @lessurligneurs.bsky.social (in 🇫🇷) about yet another objectionable practice taking place in European zoos. ⤵︎
lessurligneurs.eu/un-zoo-danoi...
Un zoo danois nourrit-il ses prédateurs avec des animaux domestiques ? - Les Surligneurs
lessurligneurs.eu
August 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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animallaweurope.bsky.social
💦Intensive animal farming fuels #water scarcity & pollution in the EU.

💀 Nitrogen & phosphorus runoff creates aquatic dead zones.

❌Factory farming harms animals, people & the planet.

🔗 More here → animallaweurope.org/wp-content/u...
The estimated cost of water pollution from animal-sourced food production reached €25 billion in 2022 in the EU
August 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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🇧🇬 In a ruling handed down on Monday, the Bulgarian Supreme Court has confirmed the legality of the national mink farming ban, stating that this ban was proportionate in light of environmental objectives.

⚖️ Ruling (in Bulgarian) → bit.ly/46RDYZt
Jo-Anne McArthur / Djurrattsalliansen / We Animals. Sweden, 2010.
August 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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🐬 DYK bottlenose dolphins use unique whistles to address each other by ‘name’?
🗨️ They’re the only non-human animals known to do this, a key step in language evolution.
🐳 Orcas have shown similar behavior.
🔗 More → tinyurl.com/54cdw3ky
The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity
The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity was first produced in 1995 as a comprehensive resource for the public, the media, scientists, students, and policymakers to learn the various
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August 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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❗77% of farmland grows feed for farmed animals, yet meat & dairy give only 18% of our calories.

🌱 We need an EU Action Plan for #PlantBased foods—to protect animals, our health & the planet.

♥️ Let’s choose compassion, sustainability & a better future.

🔗 More → tinyurl.com/yp85yc5c @eeb.org
77% of farmland used to grow cereal crops to feed farmed animals Meat and dairy provide only 18% of calories for humans Image © heartsnminds
August 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court has announced that it will uphold the Ministerial Order banning breeding and import of American mink.

This hopefully means a permanent end to fur farming in Bulgaria. The last mink fur farm shut down earlier this year.

info-adc.justice.bg/courts/porta...
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August 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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❓DYK about the amazing adaptions some birds make before migrating?
❗Some shrink or grow their organs, burn muscle for fuel, or double their body weight.
🌎 All to power their perilous journeys across the globe.
🔗 More amazing bird facts → tinyurl.com/6rybruc5
Five Incredible Ways Birds Change Their Bodies for Spring and Fall Migration
To power perilous journeys, birds undergo extreme feats like doubling their body weight and rearranging or even consuming their internal organs.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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🇩🇰 Aalborg Zoo wants the public to donate healthy guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens & even horses to feed its predators.

💉The animals would be “gently euthanised.”

‼️Highlights how difficult - or impossible - it is to meet animals' needs in captivity.

🔗More → tinyurl.com/2khx8cwd
August 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Our new book chapter is out, looking at self-awareness/personhood in nonhuman animals, and how it may relate to questions of suffering
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Self-Awareness and Personhood in Non-Human Animals
Beyond simple consciousness or sentience, some non-human animals may possess more sophisticated cognitive abilities linked to capacities for self-awareness or even personhood, capacities that may infl...
link.springer.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM