Animal Law News
Shelter Operational Guides for Free
American Humane Association’s Operational Guides for Animal Shelters -- all 20 of them -- are available to shelter professionals at no charge. Get expert advice on animal welfare topics, such as zoonotic diseases, sanitation and disease control, small mammals, humane education...more >>
UK - Animal welfare and slaughterhouses
Slaughterhouse inspectors have tried to become less predictable and abattoir owners are considering filming their workers as a result of undercover work by the charity Animal Aid. A Yorkshire-based official of the Veterinary Public Health Association, which includes vets monitoring...more >>
Standard For Sustainable Cattle Production Systems
The Standard for Sustainable Cattle Production Systems, a tool that will help cattle farmers implement good environmental, social and animal-welfare practices and enable them to voluntarily apply for the Rainforest Alliance Certified™ seal of approval, was launched recently....more >>
Animal welfare and the ‘emotional link’
New Zealand courts have recently ordered reparation to compensate owners for "emotional harm" in circumstances where reckless and/or willful ill-treatment of animals has occurred. In addition to acknowledging the emotional "link" between people and animals,...more >>
Egg Wars - The Australian Egg Corporation changes "Free Range" Rules
What Does Free Range Mean? The Australian Egg Corporation changes "Free Range" Rules
Australia's egg marketing giant has proposed a new standard for 'free range' egg production which will allow farm stocking densities to increase from the current...more >>
California's Egg Quality Assurance Program Enables Consumers to Buy With Confidence
As more than 500 million Iowa-produced eggs are being recalled nationally, California-produced eggs have been free of Salmonella enteritidis for more than ten years and experts point to the state's California Egg Quality Assurance Program (CEQAP) as the primary reason.
The CEQAP program...more >>
Police guard home of woman who put cat in bin
The home of a woman filmed picking up a cat and throwing it into a rubbish bin is under police guard in Britain after her actions sparked outrage from animal lovers and even death threats.
Mary Bale, 45, told the Sun newspaper on Wednesday: "I really don't see what everyone is...more >>
EU Ban on Seal Product Imports Delayed
The European Union (EU) implemented a ban on the trade of all seal products to be effective as of 20 August 2010 but a European court has now ruled the ban should be suspended until a group of opponents, including an Inuit tribe that is heavily active in commercial seal...more >>
Few disadvantages to large cow herds
The UK Government’s farm animal welfare advisers have concluded that there are ‘few disadvantages’ to cows being housed in large herds. In newly published advice to UK Ministers, the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC)...more >>
EU confident seal ban will stand
The ban on seal hunting is currently being challenged by the Canadian government at the World Trade Organization and by Canada’s Inuit community before the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg. However, the European Union and a Brussels-based anti-sealing lobby group described...more >>