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May 22, 2014
World Trade Organization Rules for Seals, Says Animal Welfare Counts
The WTO upheld the EU's right to prohibit trade in the products of commercial seal hunts for public moral reasons based on animal welfare.
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May 22, 2014
Historic WTO Ruling Upholds EU Ban on Seal Product Trade
The World Trade Organization ruled in regards to the Canadian and Norwegian appeal of a 2013 WTO Panel decision in favour of the European Union ban on seal product trade.
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May 21, 2014
Failing Animal Research is Delaying Cures for Alzheimer’s Disease, Says New Paper in Drug Discovery Today
A decade of Alzheimer’s disease research dominated by artificially creating symptoms in genetically modified mice has failed to find a single cure that works in human patients, and could be delaying progress towards effective treatments, says a paper published in Drug Discovery Today.
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May 12, 2014
EBRD Sets Milestone for Animal Welfare: Adopts Rules to Stop Financing Extreme Confinement of Farm Animals
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development updated its Environmental and Social Policy to ensure that projects meet or exceed EU animal welfare laws when funding agribusiness projects. The revised standards follow a report published last year by the HSI, Compassion in World Farming and Four Paws that exposed numerous investments in extreme farm animal confinement practices in non-EU countries.
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April 16, 2014
EU Parliament Approves New Invasive Alien Species Regulation
The European Parliament approved a first reading agreement on an EU invasive species Regulation on that included many of HSI's animal welfare recommendations, but also a potential loophole for American mink.
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April 4, 2014
Princess Anne, Horsemeat & Gassing Badgers:HSI/UK Responds Ahead of BBC Countryfile Interview
HSI/UK responds to an upcoming BBC Countryfile interview featuring Princess Anne making controversial statements regarding England’s badger cull and horsemeat .
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April 4, 2014
German State Agriculture Ministers to International Finance Institutions: Stop Financing Extreme Confinement of Farm Animals
The Conference of German State Agriculture Ministers adopted a resolution calling on the German federal government to ensure that International Finance Institutions meet or exceed European Union animal welfare laws when funding agribusiness projects.
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April 3, 2014
UK Abandons Badger Cull Roll Out
HSI/UK responded to the government’s decision to abandon the planned roll out of badger culling to new areas of England in 2014 but to continue the cull in in Somerset and Gloucestershire.
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March 27, 2014
Ten Dogs Rescued from the Streets of Sochi Arrive in Washington, DC
Ten dogs rescued from the streets of Sochi, Russia arrived in the United States to be adopted out, thanks to the efforts of the PovoDog Animal Shelter in Sochi and HSI.
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March 24, 2014
The Disreputable Trade in Horse Meat
More than 100,000 American horses are being exported live to Canada and Mexico, where they’re slaughtered and then exported to Europe and Japan.
