Steven McCulloch
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Senior Lecturer #HumanAnimalStudies at Centre for Animal Welfare @_UoW. Vet. Ethics. Political science. #AnimalWelfareImpactAssessment. Tweets own.
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Our recent report 'Farm Animal Welfare in the UK: What Does the British Public Want?' by Steven McCulloch reveals that the vast majority of modern British industrial farming is out of sync with public support for high animal welfare standards. The British public support outdoor &…
🆕 The 🇪🇺European Commission is facing legal action for the first time over its failure to act on an European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI)
🐷 Campaigners including Compassion in World Farming EU filed a case at the EU’s top court against the Commission for not delivering on the “End the Cage Age” ECI
Nearly here Can't wait Stalls inc All Dogs Matter Mayhew 🐶🐱 Monkey World Dorset Dogs on the Streets Dogs On The Streets Save The Asian Elephants Great speakers inc criminal barrister Samuel March & Edie Bowles founder Advocates for Animals | Solicitors Plus there'll be signed copies of Jane Fallon's book Over Sharing
Article by Adam Vaughan in The Times and The Sunday Times today: 'Growing threat to our rivers from rise of US-style ‘mega farms’'
Compassion in World Farming have found that mega pig farms increased from 206 to 243, and mega poultry farms from 768 to 933 between 2016 and 2023:
thetimes.co.uk/article/growin…
BREAKING: There has been a 20% increase in mega farms for pig and poultry in the UK from 2016 to 2023. 📈😲
8 years after the Environment Secretary at the time, Michael Gove, promised to uphold British environmental and welfare standards.
thetimes.co.uk/article/growin…
Ready for the weekend. In our first podcast of 2024, we speak to Claire Bass, Senior Director of Campaigns & Public Affairs at HSI UK, about her wish list for the coming year. Listen at buff.ly/3HQpk74 or on your favourite podcast platform. Humane Society International/UK #TalkingAnimalLaw
Thank you to UK Centre for Animal Law (A-Law) for chance to speak about our 2024 wish list for animals. Heading towards a General Election, we're talking to all Parties to make sure that voters' expectations for better protections for animals are firmly on manifesto agendas! #TalkingAnimalLaw
We welcome papers for the UK Journal of Animal Law, which provides an interdisciplinary and critical study of the law (including comparative law) as it applies to the rights and welfare of animals.
Deadline: 15 March 2024
Contact [email protected] for more information
In Parliament today at the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting event supporting John John Spellar Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill.
Great to see cross-party MP’s support for the new Bill to ban trophy hunting imports. Photo includes our Patron Henry Smith MP Peter Egan Marc Abraham OBE FOUR PAWS UK &…
'Should cats and dogs go vegan?' - Prof Andrew Knight online public event Thur 8 Feb 5.30pm UK time. Register free below. Please share 🙏
University of Winchester
eventbrite.com/e/should-cats-…
We are hosting a free webinar with CrowdJustice, Judicial Review and Animal Welfare, on 15 February 2024. We'll hear from A-Law's Chair, Paula Sparks 🇺🇦 and Maeve Storey from CrowdJustice. You can register your place here: buff.ly/3SqfbUu
'Labelling for Animal Welfare in the UK' - report for
Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation
Problem - industry schemes barely above legal baseline dominate UK labelling 🇬🇧
Solution - mandatory government labelling
1. Method of production 🐷🐔🐟
2. 'Stunned' & 'Non-stunned'
…nservativeanimalwelfarefoundation.org/resources/1318…
This morning we have published our new report 'Labelling for Animal Welfare in the UK' authored by our Head of Research Steven McCulloch which makes the case for mandatory animal welfare labelling in the UK.
Read the full report here: …nservativeanimalwelfarefoundation.org/resources/1318…
#Labelling
🗣We're delighted that Steven McCulloch will speak at our Discussion Forum's session on animal welfare, ethics & rights. This session will lay the groundwork for the day, putting into perspective the complexities & challenges of safeguarding & improving #animalwelfare in the UK.
CAWF Head of Research and author of our report published today on animal welfare labelling in the UK Steven McCulloch comments on the clear advantages method of production labelling provides for UK consumers, British farmers, and our farmed animals 👇
#Labelling