We have a historic opportunity: the new European Parliament can make animal welfare one of its top priorities.

Why now?

• Corporate cruelty as a business model: Factory farms confine billions of animals in overcrowded, barren spaces so companies can maximise profits. We can’t let animals pay the price of corporate greed!

• Public support is overwhelming: 91% of Europeans believe farmed animals (pigs, cattle, poultry etc.) deserve better living conditions. A collective of animal rights associations from all around Europe are working together to make their demands be heard.

• A broken promise: in 2020, the European Commission vowed to fully revise EU animal welfare legislation, but only transport rules have moved forward. Breeding, slaughter and labeling proposals are still missing.

Every day we wait, billions of sensitive beings suffer. That’s not justice.

Social justice is incomplete if it does not consider the well-being of the planet and all living beings. At its foundation, social justice establishes systems of dignity, equity, and fairness for everyone, and that must include animals.

True justice transcends human boundaries. Fairness, compassion and responsibility shouldn’t end with us.

Our demands:

As the Young European Greens, we are joining the call from 10 animal rights organisations* and asking the Green Members of the European Parliament to commit to pushing for:

• A comprehensive and rapid revision of the animal welfare legislation. To this end, the Commission must especially publish three proposals (breeding, slaughter, and labeling regulations), as it had committed to do in 2020.

• Ambitious proposals aligned with the most advanced scientific knowledge (EFSA opinions) to better protect animals.

• Specific provisions for each species farmed in the EU.

• The inclusion in regulations of mirror measures to ban the import on the EU market of products that do not match European standards.

How you can help?

Write today to your Green MEPs and encourage them to sign the pledge for strong, immediate action in favour of animals and lead the fight for justice!

One message can protect millions. Will you send it?

* L214 (France), Green REV Institute (Poland), КАЖИ / Caai (Bulgaria), Essere Animali (Italy), Free Animals (Romania), Animal Society (Germany), Frente Animal (Portugal), OBRAZ – Obránci zvířat (Czech Republic), EFI Ethical Farming (Ireland), and Project 1882 (Sweden)