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Luxury designers Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga announce fur-free policies

PARIS—Iconic British fashion houses Alexander McQueen and luxury Spanish designer Balenciaga are the latest Kering-owned brands to announce fur-free policies. Humane Society International and the Humane Society of the United States have been working with Kering, and its brands, for more than

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Farmed animal welfare Viet Nam
HealthyFarm becomes the first retailer in Vietnam selling only cage-free eggs

Update: As of 2021, HealthyFarm has published that it no longer buys eggs from caged hens. DANANG—HealthyFarm, a sustainable retailer in Vietnam, officially announced a policy to highlight animal welfare in its supply chain, committing to sell only cage-free eggs. The social

Tigrane Hogbossia
Farmed animal welfare Mexico
Mica and Lalo commits to going crate- and cage-free by the end of 2021

MEXICO CITY—Mica and Lalo, a restaurant and agroecological market, has committed to exclusively sourcing eggs from cage-free hens and pork from producers who do not confine mother pigs to crates throughout its supply chain by the end of 2021. With this announcement

David Paul Morris
Farmed animal welfare Mexico
Hacienda San Andrés joins the cage-free movement

MEXICO CITY—La Hacienda San Andrés, a XVI hacienda, has committed to sourcing exclusively cage-free eggs throughout its egg supply chain by the end 2021. The hotel made this decision because of animal welfare concerns with caging systems and to emphasize sustainable, responsible

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Public demands animal testing bans

Since helping to make the European Union the world’s largest cruelty-free beauty market, we and our partners have been striving to ban cosmetic testing on animals in the world’s largest and most influential beauty markets. We couldn’t do it without the backing

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Farmed animal welfare Brazil
Casa Santa Luzia supermarket commits to selling only cage-free eggs in Brazil

SÃO PAULO—Casa Santa Luzia, a traditional high-end supermarket in the city of São Paulo, announced it will sell exclusively cage-free eggs by 2023. This commitment comes after many years of working with Humane Society International and other animal protection organizations. HSI will

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Europe
Leading animal protection organisations urge European Commission to recognise wildlife crime as a serious offense

BRUSSELS—At an online event on the revision of the EU Environmental Crime Directive—organised in collaboration with MEPs for Wildlife—Humane Society International/Europe and International Fund for Animal Welfare issued a call for wildlife crime to be recognised as a serious criminal activity. Dr

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United Kingdom
Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Katharine Hamnett among iconic British #ProudToBeFurFree designers calling on Boris Johnson to ban UK fur sales
LONDON—Prime Minister Boris Johnson has received a letter from eight of Britain’s top fur-free fashion designers and retailers, urging him to make the UK the first country in the world to ban fur sales. Designers Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Katharine Hamnett, ERDEM
Raccoon dogs and foxes intensively farmed for fur in Asia, filmed November-December 2020.
United Kingdom
Fur farm investigation reveals mentally distressed foxes, raccoon dogs electrocuted in agony, and fur farm carcasses sold for human consumption

LONDON—Disturbing video evidence of extreme animal suffering on multiple fur farms in China has been released by Humane Society International as part of its #FurFreeBritain campaign calling on the UK government to ban the sale of fur imported from countries overseas including

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