Lewis Bollard
@Lewis_Bollard
Farm Animal Welfare Program Director @open_phil. Views are my own. For more, sign up to my newsletter: http://farmanimalwelfare.substack.com
Big win! France's top chicken producer has committed to major animal welfare reforms for its two main brands. The producer will stop using Frankenchicken breeds, overcrowding, and other bad practices. L214 estimates this could affect up to 400 *million* animals/year.
Après 3 ans d’enquêtes et de mobilisations, nos efforts ont enfin payé: LDC s’est engagé à tourner le dos aux pires pratiques d’élevage et d'abattage des poulets pour ses marques Maître CoQ et Le Gaulois! Un immense MERCI à vous toutes et tous pour votre soutien sans faille!👏
We already eat "lab meat." McNuggets were invented in a lab, as were the Frankenchickens they're made of. They're now produced in a factory, as "lab grown meat" will be when it scales up. The main difference is whether an animal will suffer in the process.
I guess I don't care if the Chicken in McNuggets is replaced by something like this. I mean is it really important that we keep raising Frankenchickens and grinding them into mush instead of this?
my friends have their priorities in order
Exciting to see the first eggs go on sale in the US that don't involve the killing of day-old male chicks. Nest Fresh's "humanely hatched" eggs come from hens hatched via in-ovo sexing. France and Germany have now mostly ended chick killing; hopefully the US will soon too.
Some members of the Trump admin are trying to FORCE this cruel practice back onto states that voted to ban it. Please contact your senator and tell them to vote AGAINST the evil “Food Security and Farm Protection Act”
Please watch this. Take note of the experience of the mother pig. Her home is made of METAL, has ZERO mental stimulation, and she LITERALLY CAN'T EVEN TURN AROUND. It's the experience of nearly every mother pig. 😡
Well put by @CassSunstein on the core challenge of fighting the mistreatment of animals: "Countless human beings do not want to know that those animals are suffering, and countless human beings want not to know that they are suffering."
On wanting not to know (about animal suffering, and other things). casssunstein.substack.com/p/not-wanting-…
Nice to see the Senate kill the AI moratorium, which would have stopped states regulating AI. Now it's time for the Senate to kill the "Prop 12 fix," which would stop states from regulating farm animal welfare. They're planning to sneak it into the Farm Bill later this year.
The AI moratorium is dead—for now. It will return, in another form, in another bill someday. But today's win proves something big: grassroots pressure WORKS. 150+ orgs, 40 AGs, & 260 state legislators banded together to fight back against this overreaching moratorium.
Great news: the Supreme Court today rejected yet another pork industry lawsuit to try to force states to allow the sale of pork from crated pigs. The pork industry is now lobbying Congress hard to wipe out state crate bans through the Farm Bill later this year.
Supreme Court won't hear pig farmers' challenge to California's animal-welfare law usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Texas' ag commissioner backs new cultivated meat ban because meat "better come from a pasture." He also says this ban ensures that only meat "raised with natural and traditional methods" will be sold. Does he know where 99%+ of the chicken and pork sold in Texas comes from?
Great news! Texas has officially banned the sale and production of lab grown meat
The global decline in the factory farming of mink is a great untold story of animal welfare progress. Now the EU has effectively banned most mink farming (exceptions remain), we'll hopefully see the further decline of this cruel industry. It can't come soon enough.
👍 Mink farming will be banned across the EU from 2027 after minks were listed as invasive species. 🗓️ Member States have two years to phase it out… ⁉️ …but Denmark is seeking an exemption. 🔗 More → tinyurl.com/3yta3jr2 #FurFreeEurope