Alice Di Concetto
alicediconcetto.bsky.social
Alice Di Concetto
@alicediconcetto.bsky.social
A stranger in a foreign land • Also: Chief Legal Advisor at the European Institute for Animal Law & Policy (@animallaweurope.bsky.social)
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SAVE THE DATE: Join our event with @eurogroupforanimals.org “Time for the EU to Stop Octopus Farming”

🗓️ 2 Dec 2025
🕚 15:00-17:00 CET
📍EU Parliament & online

The @ec.europa.eu must ban this cruel, unsustainable practice before it emerges.

Register here: salesforce-eu.123formbuilder.com/form-87851/
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November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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🇵🇱 Poland’s Parliament has voted to ban fur farming — a major win for animals & a big step toward a #FurFreeEurope!

🐾 339 of 436 MPs backed the bill.

🖋️It now goes to the Senate & then the President — and even his veto can be overturned by the Sejm.

#EndFurFarming #AnimalWelfare
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🇫🇷 Our Junior Researcher Gladys Le Goff was in Paris to launch a motion to adapt the legal status of sanctuary animals.

🐐It wants to see farm animals removed from the food chain recognized as companion animals.

🔗More here → tinyurl.com/5y9kas2y
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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🐑 We contributed to an in-depth @wearesolomon.bsky.social investigation on Greece’s mass, avoidable sheep slaughter following an August sheeppox outbreak.

🦠 It exposes a wider flaw in Europe’s animal health system.

🔗 Read it here → tinyurl.com/4r977du4
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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🐖 @ec.europa.eu's modernization of #AnimalWelfare law is open for public consultation for just three more weeks.

📣 Have your say by 12th December here → tinyurl.com/2an6zdwd

❓Need some tips? Check out @anima-int.bsky.social's consultation toolkit → tinyurl.com/54fe7csw
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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🏆A big step against the illegal pet trade & cruel breeding in the EU!

🐾 @consilium.europa.eu & @europarl.europa.eu backed stricter #AnimalWelfare rules for breeders, plus mandatory ID/registration for all dogs & cats: key reforms we urged in our White Paper.

🔗 Read it here → tinyurl.com/22v8ukus
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Interesting read on the limitations of the legal recognition of animal sentience -- although we shouldn't infer too much from a ruling that was limited to assessing the amount of compensation for damage to baggage!
✈️ Hugo Menotti has published an analysis of the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social ruling that animals count as baggage.

🇪🇸 The Spanish court said their loss isn’t like losing a suitcase.

🇪🇺 The CJEU disagreed, meaning sentience doesn’t ensure human-level protection.

🔗 More here → tinyurl.com/5brre52c
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🔔 Today! ⤵︎
🐄 Don’t miss "Climate Change and Factory Farming", a CALF webinar with @alicediconcetto.bsky.social, on Thursday.

⚖️ Explore how litigation can hold industrial farming & governments accountable for environmental harm.

📅 30 Oct, 15:00 CET
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/26xz8877
October 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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📚 Our new Policy Brief, “The Road to Reform,” shows the urgency for stronger rules on animal transport.

🚛 Talks in @europarl.europa.eu & @consilium.europa.eu stalled over journey times & temperatures – leaving 1.5B animals to suffer each year.

🔗Read it here → tinyurl.com/ysbb733y

#StopTheTrucks
October 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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🐊 Yesterday we joined “Stolen Wildlife: Closing the Loopholes in EU Wildlife Trade Regulations” at @europarl.europa.eu.

@alicediconcetto.bsky.social spoke on strengthening EU laws against the illegal #wildlife trade.

📕 Read the new Stolen Wildlife report → tinyurl.com/2jfpfbb7
October 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🚨 Catch @alicediconcetto.bsky.social on the panel later today at “International Disputes in Animal Law – Dynamics of Global Conflict & Cooperation”.

⚖️The webinar is hosted by GW Law’s Animal Law Program.

📅 Oct 2 | 6–7pm CEST
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/56kfurbd
October 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🐰While fur farming isn’t yet banned EU-wide, national bans, EFSA’s opinion & public pressure may pave the way.

📰 @gabrielakubikova.bsky.social asks: is this the beginning of the end for fur farming in the EU?

🔗 Read the UIA article here → tinyurl.com/533har7e

#AnimalWelfare #banfur
October 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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🇬🇧 @alicediconcetto.bsky.social & @gabrielakubikova.bsky.social are in London for today's launch of the brand new Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.

🐾 The centre will explore how animals feel — and how human choices, policies, and behaviours impact them.

🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/sentience
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🚨 @alicediconcetto.bsky.social will join the panel for “International Disputes in Animal Law: Dynamics of Global Conflict & Cooperation”.

⚖️The webinar is hosted by GW Law’s Animal Law Program.

📅 Oct 2 | 6–7pm CEST
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/56kfurbd
September 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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🐈🐕‍🦺Join us in October for the launch of our White Paper with AlmoNature & Deutscher Tierschutzbund: “The Protection of Cats & Dogs in EU Law”.

⚖️ Explore the new Regulation, opportunities & solutions with EU policymakers & protection orgs.

🗓️17 Oct, 14:00 CET
📍Zoom
🔗Sign up → tinyurl.com/ypc92pjb
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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🇪🇺 Billions of EU farmed animals got NO mention in @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu’s #SOTEU this morning.

💪"We have always had to fight for our freedoms,” she said; what about animals’ freedoms?

🐄 We urge @ec.europa.eu to deliver stronger, more ambitious #AnimalWelfare rules to protect farmed animals.
September 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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🚨 Save the date! @alicediconcetto.bsky.social will join the panel for “International Disputes in Animal Law – Dynamics of Global Conflict & Cooperation” on Oct 2.

⚖️ The webinar is hosted by GW Law’s Animal Law Program.

📅 October 2, 6–7pm CEST
📍 Webinar
🔗 Register → tinyurl.com/56kfurbd
September 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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🇵🇱 Our Legislative Advocacy Managers, Gabriela Kubíková & Ekaterina Solomina, will be at the Conference for Animal Rights in Europe on Sept 11–14.

🐄Join them and other #AnimalWelfare advocates from across the globe in Warsaw or online.

🔗Info & registration → careconf.eu

@anima-int.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🚨 Join @alicediconcetto.bsky.social at the European Vegan Summit 2025 (9–11 Sept), hosted by the Green REV Institute.

🗨️ She’ll be on the panel “Behind the Green Mask: the Food Industry's Marketing Tricks” on 11 Sept at 18:45 CET.

🔗 More → vegansummit.eu

#EVS2025 #vegan #foodsystems
August 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🌊 We’ve joined the Transform Bottom Trawling Coalition to end this most destructive of fishing methods.

🐠 #BottomTrawling devastates seabeds and kills countless fish and other animals as bycatch.

🔗Learn more → transformbottomtrawling.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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🐟 The #AquaticAnimalAlliance has released its 2025 mid-year report.

🌊 Aquatic animals make up most animals used by humans but remain overlooked in policy & welfare.

🌎 As proud AAA members alongside 177 others in 75 countries, we’re working to change that!

🔗 Read more → tinyurl.com/4eermd57
August 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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💡 REGISTER FOR FREE

Join our insightful workshop with the aWISH project, to explore the powerful impact of #AnimalWelfare indicators on improving welfare measures across the EU.

Sign up here: bit.ly/40S5Oks

Any questions? Drop them below! 👇
August 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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📉Billions of animals are slaughtered yearly—even under EU laws meant to protect them.

⚖️ Legal loopholes allow cruel practices to continue.

🌱We need an EU Action Plan for #PlantBased foods—to protect animals, people & the planet.

🔗 More here → tinyurl.com/3a85x4r7
August 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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❓Is it legal for zoos to feed companion animals to wild animals in captivity?

💬 Our Director @alicediconcetto.bsky.social answered in this piece by @lessurligneurs.bsky.social (in 🇫🇷) about yet another objectionable practice taking place in European zoos. ⤵︎
lessurligneurs.eu/un-zoo-danoi...
Un zoo danois nourrit-il ses prédateurs avec des animaux domestiques ? - Les Surligneurs
lessurligneurs.eu
August 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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💦Intensive animal farming fuels #water scarcity & pollution in the EU.

💀 Nitrogen & phosphorus runoff creates aquatic dead zones.

❌Factory farming harms animals, people & the planet.

🔗 More here → animallaweurope.org/wp-content/u...
August 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM