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TOWIE’S Pete Wicks helps charity rescue more than 170 dogs from death row on South Korean dog meat farm

Animal rescuers from Humane Society International have saved more than 170 dogs languishing on a squalid dog meat farm in South Korea, and The Only Way Is Essex’s Pete Wicks joined the rescue team on what he described as one of the

HSI/UK calls on Defence Animal Centre to let retired military dogs live

Amidst growing public outcry that the Defence Animal Centre is planning to euthanize three retired military working dogs despite professional handlers offering to adopt them, Humane Society International/UK has urged the Centre to immediately reverse its decision. The following is a statement

New Code of Practice partially bans cruel veal crates

The National Farm Animal Care Council’s new Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Veal Calves represents both a first step towards improved farm animal welfare and a missed opportunity. The updated Code, released this week, phases out the use

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Brazilian food industry leaders meet to discuss animal welfare

Humane Society International hosted Brazil’s first corporate animal welfare roundtable, bringing together food industry leaders to discuss the cage-free egg movement in the country. In recent years, egg-laying hen welfare has become a priority corporate social responsibility issue for the food industry

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Chilean restaurant company Gastronomía y Negocios commits to improve hen and pig welfare in supply chain

Gastronomía y Negocios, a Chilean restaurant company that operates the popular chains Doggis, Juan Maestro, and Mamut, has committed to sourcing exclusively cage-free eggs and crate-free pork in its entire supply chain in Chile by 2025. The company operates over 250 locations

Grupo Ráscal se compromete a comprar exclusivamente ovos livres de gaiolas

David Paul Morris São Paulo—O Grupo Ráscal, uma rede de restaurantes de alto padrão, que opera os restaurantes Ráscal, Cortés e Tuju, comprometeu-se a comprar exclusivamente ovos livres de gaiolas em toda a sua cadeia de abastecimento a partir de 2025. Essa

Hundreds of #BeCrueltyFree bunnies take to the streets of Santiago in support of cosmetic animal testing ban

SANTIAGO—Santiago residents on their way to work this week were greeted by several hundred stand-up paper bunnies urging them to support a proposed law to ban animal testing for cosmetics in Chile as well as the trade in cosmetics product and ingredients

EU Parliament vote misses important opportunity to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises from lethal fishing gear entanglement

BRUSSELS—MEPs on the European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries today failed to back proposals that would have significantly increased vital EU protections for European cetacean populations and helped prevent the horrific and needless deaths of porpoises, dolphins and whales accidentally entangled in fishing

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Actor Joaquín Ferreira joins HSI #BeCrueltyFree campaign to ban animal testing for cosmetics in Mexico

MEXICO CITY—Artist, actor and animal lover Joaquín Ferreira, star of the hit Netflix series “Club de Cuervos,” has joined Humane Society International in calling on the Mexican government to outlaw animal testing for cosmetics. HSI’s global campaign, #BeCrueltyFree, has already helped to

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