Daniel
@daniperezvega.bsky.social
Working on trade & animal welfare. Opinions are my own.
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145 MEPs tabled a motion to refer the EU-Mercosur deal to the Court of Justice of the EU
The EPP wants to block that motion at a key meeting TONIGHT
Why? If the deal is legal, let the courts say so
What’s the EPP afraid of?
Is it because they think the court will find an issue?
#StopEUMercosur
The EPP wants to block that motion at a key meeting TONIGHT
Why? If the deal is legal, let the courts say so
What’s the EPP afraid of?
Is it because they think the court will find an issue?
#StopEUMercosur
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
145 MEPs tabled a motion to refer the EU-Mercosur deal to the Court of Justice of the EU
The EPP wants to block that motion at a key meeting TONIGHT
Why? If the deal is legal, let the courts say so
What’s the EPP afraid of?
Is it because they think the court will find an issue?
#StopEUMercosur
The EPP wants to block that motion at a key meeting TONIGHT
Why? If the deal is legal, let the courts say so
What’s the EPP afraid of?
Is it because they think the court will find an issue?
#StopEUMercosur
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📢 Today's trade hearing on the EU-Mercosur deal features mainly business voices who stand to gain - but what about the voices of animals?
A missed opportunity for a balanced debate on a deal's real impacts - the risk of increased animal suffering through intensified factory farming. #StopEUMercosur
A missed opportunity for a balanced debate on a deal's real impacts - the risk of increased animal suffering through intensified factory farming. #StopEUMercosur
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢 Today's trade hearing on the EU-Mercosur deal features mainly business voices who stand to gain - but what about the voices of animals?
A missed opportunity for a balanced debate on a deal's real impacts - the risk of increased animal suffering through intensified factory farming. #StopEUMercosur
A missed opportunity for a balanced debate on a deal's real impacts - the risk of increased animal suffering through intensified factory farming. #StopEUMercosur
Today I had the opportunity to explain to MEPs why we need to #StopEUMercosur deal:
- it will further fuel animal cruelty 🐔🐮 & antimicrobial resistance 🦠 & deforestation 🔥
- its ‘rebalancing mechanism’ is a threat for future sustainability legislation 🫣
- it will further fuel animal cruelty 🐔🐮 & antimicrobial resistance 🦠 & deforestation 🔥
- its ‘rebalancing mechanism’ is a threat for future sustainability legislation 🫣
Today's #AnimalWelfare Intergroup session focused on the EU-Mercosur trade deal, and the negative impacts it would have for animals, public health and biodiversity.
Imported chicken meat and beef must be conditioned to EU standards before ratifying the deal!
#StopEUMercosur
Imported chicken meat and beef must be conditioned to EU standards before ratifying the deal!
#StopEUMercosur
June 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Today I had the opportunity to explain to MEPs why we need to #StopEUMercosur deal:
- it will further fuel animal cruelty 🐔🐮 & antimicrobial resistance 🦠 & deforestation 🔥
- its ‘rebalancing mechanism’ is a threat for future sustainability legislation 🫣
- it will further fuel animal cruelty 🐔🐮 & antimicrobial resistance 🦠 & deforestation 🔥
- its ‘rebalancing mechanism’ is a threat for future sustainability legislation 🫣
Trade deals undermine #AnimalWelfare standards & fuel factory farming abroad 😱
Great that the upcoming #EndTheCageAge will apply to imports 🥚🐷🐮
But as the EU imports lots chicken meat, new EU law must also require that imports comply with the new density & breeding standards 🐔
#StopCruelImports
Great that the upcoming #EndTheCageAge will apply to imports 🥚🐷🐮
But as the EU imports lots chicken meat, new EU law must also require that imports comply with the new density & breeding standards 🐔
#StopCruelImports
Cheaper imported chicken and beef increasingly seen in UK supermarkets
Grocers turning to Australia, Poland and Uruguay for meat, prompting claim they are undermining British farmers
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Trade deals undermine #AnimalWelfare standards & fuel factory farming abroad 😱
Great that the upcoming #EndTheCageAge will apply to imports 🥚🐷🐮
But as the EU imports lots chicken meat, new EU law must also require that imports comply with the new density & breeding standards 🐔
#StopCruelImports
Great that the upcoming #EndTheCageAge will apply to imports 🥚🐷🐮
But as the EU imports lots chicken meat, new EU law must also require that imports comply with the new density & breeding standards 🐔
#StopCruelImports
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📣 LET'S GET LOUD FOR PETS! 📣
Dear MEPs, this Thursday we urge you to support:
✅ inclusion of small breeders
✅ mandatory identification & registration for ALL
✅ addressing the online trade
✅ including wild animals in legislation
#LeaveNoPetBehind
Dear MEPs, this Thursday we urge you to support:
✅ inclusion of small breeders
✅ mandatory identification & registration for ALL
✅ addressing the online trade
✅ including wild animals in legislation
#LeaveNoPetBehind
June 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📣 LET'S GET LOUD FOR PETS! 📣
Dear MEPs, this Thursday we urge you to support:
✅ inclusion of small breeders
✅ mandatory identification & registration for ALL
✅ addressing the online trade
✅ including wild animals in legislation
#LeaveNoPetBehind
Dear MEPs, this Thursday we urge you to support:
✅ inclusion of small breeders
✅ mandatory identification & registration for ALL
✅ addressing the online trade
✅ including wild animals in legislation
#LeaveNoPetBehind
The OCTOPUS Act is good news for trade & #AnimalWelfare 🐙
It aims to ban the commercial octopus aquaculture in the US & the import of commercially farmed octopus 👏
It aims to ban the commercial octopus aquaculture in the US & the import of commercially farmed octopus 👏
OCTOPUS Act Reintroduced in the U.S. Senate
The federal bill would prevent the industry from gaining traction by banning commercial octopus farming in the U.S.
aldf.org
June 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The OCTOPUS Act is good news for trade & #AnimalWelfare 🐙
It aims to ban the commercial octopus aquaculture in the US & the import of commercially farmed octopus 👏
It aims to ban the commercial octopus aquaculture in the US & the import of commercially farmed octopus 👏
Very happy to share why import requirements related to #AnimalWelfare are necessary to stop cruelty in the EU & in partner countries 🐮🐔🐷
Merci aux MEPs @erics40.bsky.social @charlesgoerens.bsky.social, Camilla Laureti & Benoit Cassart pour l’organisation 👏🏼
Merci aux MEPs @erics40.bsky.social @charlesgoerens.bsky.social, Camilla Laureti & Benoit Cassart pour l’organisation 👏🏼
June 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Very happy to share why import requirements related to #AnimalWelfare are necessary to stop cruelty in the EU & in partner countries 🐮🐔🐷
Merci aux MEPs @erics40.bsky.social @charlesgoerens.bsky.social, Camilla Laureti & Benoit Cassart pour l’organisation 👏🏼
Merci aux MEPs @erics40.bsky.social @charlesgoerens.bsky.social, Camilla Laureti & Benoit Cassart pour l’organisation 👏🏼
Good news for animals in Europe 🇪🇺🇬🇧!
This common regulatory framework will ensure that any progress - including the EU ban on cages - applies in the UK 🐔
This common regulatory framework will ensure that any progress - including the EU ban on cages - applies in the UK 🐔
🇪🇺🇬🇧🐾 Big news for animals! The EU & UK have committed to closer cooperation on animal welfare via a Common Veterinary Area. This could reduce complications and delays for live animal transport & raise #AnimalWelfare standards on both sides of the Channel.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3ZzXXXU
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3ZzXXXU
bit.ly
May 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Good news for animals in Europe 🇪🇺🇬🇧!
This common regulatory framework will ensure that any progress - including the EU ban on cages - applies in the UK 🐔
This common regulatory framework will ensure that any progress - including the EU ban on cages - applies in the UK 🐔
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🙋🐮 European consumers agree that animal food imports should be subject to the same welfare rules as those produced in the EU.
👉The EU's upcoming revision of its #AnimalWelfare legislation is a ✨golden✨ opportunity to ensure this. #StopCruelImports event in Brussels with Federacja Konsumentów today.
👉The EU's upcoming revision of its #AnimalWelfare legislation is a ✨golden✨ opportunity to ensure this. #StopCruelImports event in Brussels with Federacja Konsumentów today.
May 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🙋🐮 European consumers agree that animal food imports should be subject to the same welfare rules as those produced in the EU.
👉The EU's upcoming revision of its #AnimalWelfare legislation is a ✨golden✨ opportunity to ensure this. #StopCruelImports event in Brussels with Federacja Konsumentów today.
👉The EU's upcoming revision of its #AnimalWelfare legislation is a ✨golden✨ opportunity to ensure this. #StopCruelImports event in Brussels with Federacja Konsumentów today.
Today at the @eurogroupforanimals.org event on trade panelists agreed that the 🇪🇺 market - including consumers, farmers and producers - needs import requirements related to #AnimalWelfare, even more with the controversial #EUMercosur FTA in the pipeline ‼️
@ec.europa.eu lets do it !
@ec.europa.eu lets do it !
May 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Today at the @eurogroupforanimals.org event on trade panelists agreed that the 🇪🇺 market - including consumers, farmers and producers - needs import requirements related to #AnimalWelfare, even more with the controversial #EUMercosur FTA in the pipeline ‼️
@ec.europa.eu lets do it !
@ec.europa.eu lets do it !
I’m sure everyone who saw us demonstrating like this in Rome a few years back heard about it 😉
#EuropeDay
#EuropeDay
May 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I’m sure everyone who saw us demonstrating like this in Rome a few years back heard about it 😉
#EuropeDay
#EuropeDay
Come find out why the upcoming revision of the #AnimalWelfare legislation is a once in a lifetime opportunity to #StopCruelImports
🗓️ #SaveTheDate: Registrations are now open for our joint event with Federacja Przedsiębiorców Polskich on #AnimalWelfare import requirements! 🙌 #StopCruelImports
📅 13 May | 🕒 15:00
📍 Residence Palace, Brussels & online
🔗 Secure your spot: bit.ly/43TDTmw
📅 13 May | 🕒 15:00
📍 Residence Palace, Brussels & online
🔗 Secure your spot: bit.ly/43TDTmw
April 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Come find out why the upcoming revision of the #AnimalWelfare legislation is a once in a lifetime opportunity to #StopCruelImports
For years I've been advocating for tariffs for the protection of legitimate objectives such as #AnimalWelfare.
These "reciprocal" tariffs make no sense: they are based on a simplistic calculation & ignore how trade rules and supply chains work.
They might also backfire and hit the US economy.
These "reciprocal" tariffs make no sense: they are based on a simplistic calculation & ignore how trade rules and supply chains work.
They might also backfire and hit the US economy.
As Donald Trump unveiled his list of tariffs on American trading partners in a bold attempt to reduce the United States' trade deficit, many are questioning how the duties were calculated.
Trump’s tariff math is crazy, says ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ author
James Surowiecki challenges the White House’s rationale for punishing Europe, China, India and Japan with reciprocal tariffs.
www.politico.eu
April 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
For years I've been advocating for tariffs for the protection of legitimate objectives such as #AnimalWelfare.
These "reciprocal" tariffs make no sense: they are based on a simplistic calculation & ignore how trade rules and supply chains work.
They might also backfire and hit the US economy.
These "reciprocal" tariffs make no sense: they are based on a simplistic calculation & ignore how trade rules and supply chains work.
They might also backfire and hit the US economy.
I was very happy to present to 🇪🇺 & 🇨🇦 officials why the EU seals regime remains fit for purpose 🦭
The EU seals regime was a big milestone for #AnimalWelfare. Let’s continue discussions on how to better implement it rather than weakening it.
The EU seals regime was a big milestone for #AnimalWelfare. Let’s continue discussions on how to better implement it rather than weakening it.
We're happy to be presenting at the #CETA 🇪🇺🇨🇦 Civil Society Forum today on #seals! 🦭
The EU seal regime restricts the placement of seal products on the EU market & 80% of EU citizens still support this.
To protect public morals & #AnimalWelfare, it's important that the EU seals regime remains!
The EU seal regime restricts the placement of seal products on the EU market & 80% of EU citizens still support this.
To protect public morals & #AnimalWelfare, it's important that the EU seals regime remains!
March 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I was very happy to present to 🇪🇺 & 🇨🇦 officials why the EU seals regime remains fit for purpose 🦭
The EU seals regime was a big milestone for #AnimalWelfare. Let’s continue discussions on how to better implement it rather than weakening it.
The EU seals regime was a big milestone for #AnimalWelfare. Let’s continue discussions on how to better implement it rather than weakening it.
This may have implications for #AnimalWelfare because if the 200% tariffs on 🇪🇺 wine & spirits happen, expect stronger calls in favour of trade agreements, including with #Mercosur and 🇮🇳
🚨 BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has threatened a mega 200 percent tariff on EU wines and spirits.
Read the developing story: ow.ly/frhT50Vhcjy
Read the developing story: ow.ly/frhT50Vhcjy
March 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This may have implications for #AnimalWelfare because if the 200% tariffs on 🇪🇺 wine & spirits happen, expect stronger calls in favour of trade agreements, including with #Mercosur and 🇮🇳
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⚠️ Animal welfare and sustainability should be a cornerstone of corporate policies.
👉 bit.ly/3FjmDge
This is why we joined 360+ civil society organisations worldwide in urging @Europarl_EN
& @EUCouncil to say:
📢 #NoToOmnibus - turning corporate due diligence into an empty shell
👉 bit.ly/3FjmDge
This is why we joined 360+ civil society organisations worldwide in urging @Europarl_EN
& @EUCouncil to say:
📢 #NoToOmnibus - turning corporate due diligence into an empty shell
JOINT STATEMENT The big EU deregulation. Disastrous Omnibus proposal erodes EU’s corporate accountability commitments and slashes human rights and environmental protections - ECCJ
The publication by the European Commission of its Omnibus proposal revising key corporate sustainability laws sends a clear political signal: President Ursula von der Leyen is deprioritising human…
bit.ly
March 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
⚠️ Animal welfare and sustainability should be a cornerstone of corporate policies.
👉 bit.ly/3FjmDge
This is why we joined 360+ civil society organisations worldwide in urging @Europarl_EN
& @EUCouncil to say:
📢 #NoToOmnibus - turning corporate due diligence into an empty shell
👉 bit.ly/3FjmDge
This is why we joined 360+ civil society organisations worldwide in urging @Europarl_EN
& @EUCouncil to say:
📢 #NoToOmnibus - turning corporate due diligence into an empty shell
Let’s make sure public money is spent only on high welfare products.
⏰ Last chance to participate in this public consultation!
Deadline: 7 March
Take part: bit.ly/41pknwv
Deadline: 7 March
Take part: bit.ly/41pknwv
📢 Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to have your say!
Right now, a #PublicConsultation is happening that will influence public procurement in the EU.
Why is this a big opportunity for #AnimalWelfare?
Right now, a #PublicConsultation is happening that will influence public procurement in the EU.
Why is this a big opportunity for #AnimalWelfare?
March 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Let’s make sure public money is spent only on high welfare products.
In December 2019 @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu announced the #GreenDeal.
What is left today ? Watered down obligations for a very limited number of operators.
#WeHadADeal
What is left today ? Watered down obligations for a very limited number of operators.
#WeHadADeal
February 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In December 2019 @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu announced the #GreenDeal.
What is left today ? Watered down obligations for a very limited number of operators.
#WeHadADeal
What is left today ? Watered down obligations for a very limited number of operators.
#WeHadADeal
And no worries, applying EU #AnimalWelfare standards to imported products is compatible with #WTO agreements.
Actually, the EU slaughter regulation already applies to third countries exporting to the EU.
Read our blog 🐔
Actually, the EU slaughter regulation already applies to third countries exporting to the EU.
Read our blog 🐔
Not meeting EU #animalwelfare standards? No thank you 🛑✋
As part of its Vision on the Future of EU Agriculture, the @ec.europa.eu stated that any future legislative proposals on animal welfare will also apply to imported products! :clap:
www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/imports...
As part of its Vision on the Future of EU Agriculture, the @ec.europa.eu stated that any future legislative proposals on animal welfare will also apply to imported products! :clap:
www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/imports...
a man with a beard and the words " you shall not pass " on the bottom
ALT: a man with a beard and the words " you shall not pass " on the bottom
media.tenor.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
And no worries, applying EU #AnimalWelfare standards to imported products is compatible with #WTO agreements.
Actually, the EU slaughter regulation already applies to third countries exporting to the EU.
Read our blog 🐔
Actually, the EU slaughter regulation already applies to third countries exporting to the EU.
Read our blog 🐔
Have you read the @ec.europa.eu's Vision on the Future of EU Agriculture ? It has rather good elements on trade & #AnimalWelfare 👏
Read our #PressRelease 🧐
Read our #PressRelease 🧐
Although the @ec.europa.eu's reaffirmed commitment to revising the outdated #animalwelfare legislation, including a ban on cages is encouraging, the Vision on the Future of EU Agriculture remains unclear on crucial aspects.
More on our #PressRelease 👇
www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/vision-...
More on our #PressRelease 👇
www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/vision-...
Vision for Agriculture and Food: positive step for animal welfare but lacks holistic outlook for change
The European Commission’s (EC) Vision for Agriculture and Food positively recognises the importance of improving animal welfare standards but is not far-reaching in ensuring adequate financial support...
www.eurogroupforanimals.org
February 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Have you read the @ec.europa.eu's Vision on the Future of EU Agriculture ? It has rather good elements on trade & #AnimalWelfare 👏
Read our #PressRelease 🧐
Read our #PressRelease 🧐
This is great news for animals in the EU and abroad 👏
The revision of the #AnimalWelfare legislation is the perfect opportunity to #EndTheCageAge for all animals, regardless their origin.
Let's do it @ec.europa.eu 🤘
The revision of the #AnimalWelfare legislation is the perfect opportunity to #EndTheCageAge for all animals, regardless their origin.
Let's do it @ec.europa.eu 🤘
Draft Commission farm vision promises tough trade rules on pesticides, livestock
Draft Commission farm vision promises tough trade rules on pesticides, livestock
The pledges echo growing rhetoric from EU farm chief Christophe Hansen and Health and Animal Welfare Commissioner Olivier Várhelyi.
dlvr.it
February 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is great news for animals in the EU and abroad 👏
The revision of the #AnimalWelfare legislation is the perfect opportunity to #EndTheCageAge for all animals, regardless their origin.
Let's do it @ec.europa.eu 🤘
The revision of the #AnimalWelfare legislation is the perfect opportunity to #EndTheCageAge for all animals, regardless their origin.
Let's do it @ec.europa.eu 🤘
The #EUMercosur deal is toxic ❌
It will stimulate feedlots (which are already increasing) & intensive poultry production in South America 🐮🐔
The deal also allows partners to challenge ANY future legislation (even if legitimate) if it nullifies trade concessions in terms of business opportunities.
It will stimulate feedlots (which are already increasing) & intensive poultry production in South America 🐮🐔
The deal also allows partners to challenge ANY future legislation (even if legitimate) if it nullifies trade concessions in terms of business opportunities.
Ahead of the #EPlenary debate on the EU-Mercosur trade deal today, we're calling on MEPs to block this toxic deal, for the animals, people and the planet.
‼️ EU trade policy cannot fuel cruel intensive farming practices abroad.
#StopEUMercosur
‼️ EU trade policy cannot fuel cruel intensive farming practices abroad.
#StopEUMercosur
February 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The #EUMercosur deal is toxic ❌
It will stimulate feedlots (which are already increasing) & intensive poultry production in South America 🐮🐔
The deal also allows partners to challenge ANY future legislation (even if legitimate) if it nullifies trade concessions in terms of business opportunities.
It will stimulate feedlots (which are already increasing) & intensive poultry production in South America 🐮🐔
The deal also allows partners to challenge ANY future legislation (even if legitimate) if it nullifies trade concessions in terms of business opportunities.
The new regime - revision of the trade agreement or new autonomous measures - must condition any trade liberalisation of animal based products to the *implementation* of EU #AnimalWelfare standards 🐔🥚
👉🏼 Read our position here : ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
👉🏼 Read our position here : ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
February 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The new regime - revision of the trade agreement or new autonomous measures - must condition any trade liberalisation of animal based products to the *implementation* of EU #AnimalWelfare standards 🐔🥚
👉🏼 Read our position here : ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
👉🏼 Read our position here : ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
The modernisation of the #AnimalWelfare law is also the best opportunity we have to ensure that all products marketed on the EU comply with the same standards.
#StopCruelImports
#StopCruelImports
#PressRelease: at our + @ciwf.eu's event key stakeholders, including Animal Welfare Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, reaffirmed that improving #animalwelfare is not just a moral imperative but also brings social, environmental, and economic benefits.
www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/better-...
www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/better-...
Better animal welfare brings benefit to all: Commissioner Varhelyi
Event highlighted need to share burden of financing transition towards higher-welfare food systems, with European Commission renewing commitment to deliver promised animal welfare legislation.
www.eurogroupforanimals.org
February 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The modernisation of the #AnimalWelfare law is also the best opportunity we have to ensure that all products marketed on the EU comply with the same standards.
#StopCruelImports
#StopCruelImports