Spain: Animalists ask for specific welfare standards for rabbit farms
Rabbit Meat
Spain
Published May 6, 2022
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The animal organization AnimaNaturalis has demanded this Thursday a specific animal welfare regulation for rabbit farms, which, despite being the third most produced species for meat in Europe, does not have its own legislation that guarantees ethical production. The entity, which has recalled that more than half of the rabbit farms in the EU are in Spain, with about 3,833 rabbit farms, the vast majority in Catalonia, and all of them are governed by the general legislation of the European Union on animal welfare, which only defines some basic aspects such as the availability of water, food and disease prevention. AnimaNaturalis has published this Thursday an investigation that it carried out between December 2021 and February 2022 in which it found some intensive farming practices with rabbits on farms where they live “piled up in cages with wire floors, without any type of enrichment and in a space less than the size of a sheet of paper per animal”. "In these cages they cannot ...
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