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Animals News tagged with european union

Canada and European Union Bans American Horsemeat
Animals  (tags: canada, european union, ban horse meat, horse welfare, ban horse slaugher, horses suffering )

Simone
- 110 days ago - prweb.com
For decades, the gourmet diners of Europe and Japan have eaten American horse meat poisoned by chemical contamination. The horse flesh exporting by unscrupulous producers and horse slaughter plants will come to an end in April of 2010. The new rules
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Cruel Draize Test Dropped in EU
Animals  (tags: european union, cruel draize test dropped, animal testing, commission, animal welfare )

Simone
- 116 days ago - animalaid.org.uk
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection has reported that, on 24 July 2009, the European Commission announced the adoption of a non-animal alternative to the cruel Draize test. Every year, some 10,000 animals are used in these tests in the EU.
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PLEASE TAKE ACTION: For a European Ban on the Boiling Alive of Lobsters!
Animals  (tags: lobsters, barbaric cruelty, boiled alive, suffering, european union )

Simone
- 190 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Every living being aspires to grow up in a environment that is free from cruelty and violence. Lobsters and animals in general aren%u2019t any different from humans. They want to see their children grow up in a loving and caring environment, they hope
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European Union Makes History By Banning Trade in Seal Products(5 May 2009)
Animals  (tags: European Union, Banning Trade in Seal Products, Canadian seals )

Trudi
- 206 days ago - hsus.org
Today The Parliament voted for a strong Regulation that will eliminate the placing of seal products on the EU market, closing a primary market for the Canadian commercial seal hunt.
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EU: Written Declaration for Strays - Please Try the Following and Target Your Specific, National and Regional MEPs for Support.
Animals  (tags: stray animals, european union, animal welfare laws, homeless animals, legalisation, laws, protection )

Simone
- 219 days ago - serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com
This is now the final campaign route we can come up with to get a result on the written declaration for strays. We have until 7th May latest to get 396 or more signatures to support the written declaration for stray and pet animals. At the
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PLZ TAKE ACTION: Europe (EU): Your Support Needed - European Import Ban on Seal Products Now a Step Closer
Animals  (tags: european union, respect for animals, voting, importation, ban on seal products, harp seals massacred )

Simone
- 244 days ago - serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com
A vote, by all MEPs in the full European Parliament, is due to take place in April or May this year. As harp seal pups are being born on the ice floes off Canada's east coast, and seal hunters are preparing for another commercial-scale slaughter at the
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Europe: BAN THE CRUEL SEAL TRADE - YOUR URGENT ACTION REQUIRED IMMEDIATELY
Animals  (tags: european union, mps, ban seal products, saving thousands of seals, seals slaughtered, crueltyprotection )

Simone
- 272 days ago - e-activist.com
This spring the EU parliament willThe European Commission put forward a proposal to ban the import and trade in seal products in the European Union--a move many believe is a historic step towards ending cruel commercial seal hunts around
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Against Killing of Strays Within the European Union - Please Sign PETITION
Animals  (tags: stray animals, poisoned, shot to death, abused, killed, authorities, european union, animal welfare, rigthts )

Simone
- 275 days ago - gopetition.com.au
Please HELP prevent the European Union from implementing the mass killings of stray animals and the union-wide installation of killing shelters by signing this petition.
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EU Animal Rights Advocates Protest Bullfighting
Animals  (tags: european union, protesters, naked protest, against bull fighting, bull murdering, bull torture, animal advocates, animal welfare, animal rights )

Simone
- 412 days ago - iht.com
Animal rights activists staged a topless protest outside the European Parliament on Thursday, demanding the European Union ban bullfighting and stop aiding the industry in Spain, France and Portugal. Some 20 men and women laid down on the sidewalk out
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TAKE ACTION; EUROPE COMMISSION - Stop Long Distance Transport of Animals for Slaughter
Animals  (tags: european union, long distance transport, animals suffering, cruelty, horrific cruelty, animal laws, banning, animal advocates )

Simone
- 436 days ago - e-activist.com
The Handle with Care Coalition uncovered, for example, how horses transported from Spain to be slaughtered in Italy suffer unbearably during these unnecessary long journeys. The rules laid out in the EU Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 are routinely flo
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EU to Propose Ban on Imports of Seal Products
Animals  (tags: european union, banning seal products, netherlands, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 593 days ago - guardian.co.uk
- The EU's environment chief Stavros Dimas will propose to ban imports of all seal products resulting from culls where animals suffer, he told Reuters, setting up a possible trade conflict with Canada. Belgium and the Netherlands last year banned imports
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Europe Move May End Seal Slaughter
Animals  (tags: european union, ban seal products, end seal slaughter, massacre, laws )

Simone
- 611 days ago - ananova.com
The European Union is on the verge of an import ban that could help end the hugely controversial Canadian seal hunt, according to animal welfare groups. Every year, more than 250,000 harp seals are slaughtered by hunters armed with clubs and rifles.
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EU Ban on Trade in Seal Products: Have Your Say
Animals  (tags: european union, ban seal products, seals cubbed, tortured, beaten, animal advocates )

Simone
- 663 days ago - wspa.org.uk
Approximately one million seals are deliberately killed each year, the majority commercially hunted for their pelts. The two most widely used slaughter methods - clubbing and shooting - frequently cause these intelligent mammals to suffer slow and
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