The Animal Law Foundation
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This is why we’re leading the call for #OfficialGuidance for fish and decapod crustaceans.
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#PainAtTheTimeofKilling #OffishialGuidance #AnimalProtection
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#PainAtTheTimeofKilling #OffishialGuidance #AnimalProtection
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is why we’re leading the call for #OfficialGuidance for fish and decapod crustaceans.
Read more: animallawfoundation.org/crustaceans-...
#PainAtTheTimeofKilling #OffishialGuidance #AnimalProtection
Read more: animallawfoundation.org/crustaceans-...
#PainAtTheTimeofKilling #OffishialGuidance #AnimalProtection
Clarity in legal requirements is essential for enforcement. Official guidance helps translate legal protections into day-to-day practice to ensure animals get the safeguards the law already promises them.
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Clarity in legal requirements is essential for enforcement. Official guidance helps translate legal protections into day-to-day practice to ensure animals get the safeguards the law already promises them.
Why are we calling for official guidance?
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November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Why are we calling for official guidance?
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Behind the numbers: The true scale of animal agriculture in the UK
Read our insight and find out the numbers of UK animal agriculture: animallawfoundation.org/insights/beh...
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #TheEnforcementProblem
Read our insight and find out the numbers of UK animal agriculture: animallawfoundation.org/insights/beh...
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #TheEnforcementProblem
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Behind the numbers: The true scale of animal agriculture in the UK
Read our insight and find out the numbers of UK animal agriculture: animallawfoundation.org/insights/beh...
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #TheEnforcementProblem
Read our insight and find out the numbers of UK animal agriculture: animallawfoundation.org/insights/beh...
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #TheEnforcementProblem
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
After Wakker Dier’s success in challenging the Dutch Government for lack of enforcement of EU Transport Regulation 1/2005, where the Court ruled that the law should be enforced, UK animal groups decided to make similar arguments, as the same law applied here.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
After Wakker Dier’s success in challenging the Dutch Government for lack of enforcement of EU Transport Regulation 1/2005, where the Court ruled that the law should be enforced, UK animal groups decided to make similar arguments, as the same law applied here.
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Did you know that the movement to challenge the legality of current chicken handling practices was first started in The Netherlands by @wakkerdier.bsky.social ?
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November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Did you know that the movement to challenge the legality of current chicken handling practices was first started in The Netherlands by @wakkerdier.bsky.social ?
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Later that day, we presented data findings on #TheEnforcementProblem in Parliament, sharing evidence with MPs and stakeholders at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare – data we will be sharing publicly soon.
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #TradeTalks
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #TradeTalks
November 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Later that day, we presented data findings on #TheEnforcementProblem in Parliament, sharing evidence with MPs and stakeholders at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare – data we will be sharing publicly soon.
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #TradeTalks
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #TradeTalks
From trade talks to Parliament 🇬🇧🐾
Yesterday we met with the Department of Business and Trade's trade negotiating team to highlight key UK animal welfare laws that go beyond EU standards – vital context as they negotiate animal trade agreements.
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Yesterday we met with the Department of Business and Trade's trade negotiating team to highlight key UK animal welfare laws that go beyond EU standards – vital context as they negotiate animal trade agreements.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
From trade talks to Parliament 🇬🇧🐾
Yesterday we met with the Department of Business and Trade's trade negotiating team to highlight key UK animal welfare laws that go beyond EU standards – vital context as they negotiate animal trade agreements.
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Yesterday we met with the Department of Business and Trade's trade negotiating team to highlight key UK animal welfare laws that go beyond EU standards – vital context as they negotiate animal trade agreements.
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However, there are serious concerns about welfare practices in some 🇮🇳 production systems, which this agreement is set to increase, particularly prawn and cattle farming and leather production, where methods such as eyestalk ablation, inhumane slaughter and poor transport conditions remain common
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
However, there are serious concerns about welfare practices in some 🇮🇳 production systems, which this agreement is set to increase, particularly prawn and cattle farming and leather production, where methods such as eyestalk ablation, inhumane slaughter and poor transport conditions remain common
It is encouraging that the deal reaffirms the UK’s right to uphold its own high standards through preventing any dilution of our existing protections and restricting imports on animal welfare grounds in compliance with World Trade Organisation rules.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It is encouraging that the deal reaffirms the UK’s right to uphold its own high standards through preventing any dilution of our existing protections and restricting imports on animal welfare grounds in compliance with World Trade Organisation rules.
The recent UK-India trade agreement offers both opportunities and challenges for animal welfare.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The recent UK-India trade agreement offers both opportunities and challenges for animal welfare.
Can the UK uphold its animal welfare standards in trade?
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November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Can the UK uphold its animal welfare standards in trade?
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Webinar alert! ⏰
Join us and The Webinar Vet online on Tuesday 2nd December at 2pm to hear from legal, veterinary and academic experts on 'Routine Tail Docking of Pigs'
Don’t miss out! Register for the session here: thewebinarvet.com/webinars/rou...
#APigsTail #AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection
Join us and The Webinar Vet online on Tuesday 2nd December at 2pm to hear from legal, veterinary and academic experts on 'Routine Tail Docking of Pigs'
Don’t miss out! Register for the session here: thewebinarvet.com/webinars/rou...
#APigsTail #AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Webinar alert! ⏰
Join us and The Webinar Vet online on Tuesday 2nd December at 2pm to hear from legal, veterinary and academic experts on 'Routine Tail Docking of Pigs'
Don’t miss out! Register for the session here: thewebinarvet.com/webinars/rou...
#APigsTail #AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection
Join us and The Webinar Vet online on Tuesday 2nd December at 2pm to hear from legal, veterinary and academic experts on 'Routine Tail Docking of Pigs'
Don’t miss out! Register for the session here: thewebinarvet.com/webinars/rou...
#APigsTail #AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection
A material planning consideration is something a council is legally allowed to take into account when deciding a planning application.
Our Founder Edie Bowles says, “This recognition matters because it brings the lives of animals into the heart of decisions that affect their lives.”
Our Founder Edie Bowles says, “This recognition matters because it brings the lives of animals into the heart of decisions that affect their lives.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A material planning consideration is something a council is legally allowed to take into account when deciding a planning application.
Our Founder Edie Bowles says, “This recognition matters because it brings the lives of animals into the heart of decisions that affect their lives.”
Our Founder Edie Bowles says, “This recognition matters because it brings the lives of animals into the heart of decisions that affect their lives.”
The recent High Court case of Animal Equality UK v North East Lincolnshire Council & ASL New Clee Limited [2025] EWHC 1331 (Admin) set an important principle: animal welfare can be a material planning consideration.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The recent High Court case of Animal Equality UK v North East Lincolnshire Council & ASL New Clee Limited [2025] EWHC 1331 (Admin) set an important principle: animal welfare can be a material planning consideration.
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It’s time to put animals back into the Animal Welfare Act.
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #AnimalWelfareAct
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #AnimalWelfareAct
October 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It’s time to put animals back into the Animal Welfare Act.
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #AnimalWelfareAct
#AnimalLaw #AnimalProtection #AnimalWelfareAct
The Animal Welfare Act 2006 was meant to protect animals from unnecessary suffering – physical or mental.
But too often, the focus drifts from the protection of animals themselves to legal loopholes and excuses, which allow suffering to persist.
But too often, the focus drifts from the protection of animals themselves to legal loopholes and excuses, which allow suffering to persist.
October 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The Animal Welfare Act 2006 was meant to protect animals from unnecessary suffering – physical or mental.
But too often, the focus drifts from the protection of animals themselves to legal loopholes and excuses, which allow suffering to persist.
But too often, the focus drifts from the protection of animals themselves to legal loopholes and excuses, which allow suffering to persist.
In 2022, together with @animalequality, we put together a report on #TheEnforcementProblem.
Our report revealed widespread and systemic under-enforcement of the legal frameworks meant to protect farmed animals, between the years of 2018 to 2021.
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Our report revealed widespread and systemic under-enforcement of the legal frameworks meant to protect farmed animals, between the years of 2018 to 2021.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In 2022, together with @animalequality, we put together a report on #TheEnforcementProblem.
Our report revealed widespread and systemic under-enforcement of the legal frameworks meant to protect farmed animals, between the years of 2018 to 2021.
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Our report revealed widespread and systemic under-enforcement of the legal frameworks meant to protect farmed animals, between the years of 2018 to 2021.
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Four years ago we initiated the legal argument that following their recognition of sentience, boiling crustaceans alive is illegal under the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015 (WATOK), where it is an offence to cause avoidable suffering.
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It’s really that simple 👇🧵
October 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Four years ago we initiated the legal argument that following their recognition of sentience, boiling crustaceans alive is illegal under the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015 (WATOK), where it is an offence to cause avoidable suffering.
It’s really that simple 👇🧵
It’s really that simple 👇🧵
Scotland leads the way on fish welfare – now England must do the same for crustaceans 🦞
Read our latest #insight 👉 animallawfoundation.org/insights/sco...
#PainAtTheTimeOfKilling #Crustaceans
Read our latest #insight 👉 animallawfoundation.org/insights/sco...
#PainAtTheTimeOfKilling #Crustaceans
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Scotland leads the way on fish welfare – now England must do the same for crustaceans 🦞
Read our latest #insight 👉 animallawfoundation.org/insights/sco...
#PainAtTheTimeOfKilling #Crustaceans
Read our latest #insight 👉 animallawfoundation.org/insights/sco...
#PainAtTheTimeOfKilling #Crustaceans