Plaid MEP Jill Evans has joined animal rights campaigners in the European Parliament in Strasbourg to support a review of the law on animal testing and a ban on testing on primates. The Welsh MEP is a long standing campaigner against unnecessary animal testing and author of a report adopted by the European Parliament in 2003 which highlighted the urgent need to European laws on animal testing. The...

Plaid MEP Jill Evans believes a twenty year old European law on animal testing is in urgent need of updating because it allows too many animals to suffer unnecessarily. The MEP says many experiments are being duplicated, leading to animal suffering that could be avoided. The MEP wants the European Commission to establish a Europe-wide database, accessible to researchers, to help reduce the number ...

While the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has found no clear safety concerns related to food products from clones of cattle, pigs or their offspring, it strongly underlines that no way near enough scientific data on the subject exists as yet and that the practice has major repercussions on animal health and welfare.

Good to see a Liberal Democrat MEP taking up this cause in a press release: Liberal Democrat London MEP Sarah Ludford has called for the blocking of plans by European Parliament bosses known as the ‘bureau’ to spend £26 million (€30 million) on improving MEP offices in the Parliament’s Strasbourg building. The Parliament is currently obliged

In an analysis done by Protecting Animals in Democracy, the Green Party scored joint best amongst UK MEPs on animal rights. Both Caroline Lucas (Green MEP for the South East) and Jean Lambert (Green MEP for London) received a score of +15 (only matched by Plaid Cymru's Jill Evans). The analysis was based on recent votes on a new EU law on animal experiments. The votes took place recently (on ...

Plaid MEP Jill Evans has welcomed a vote in the European Parliament backing her proposal to give preference to locally produced food products. The parliament is reviewing an EU scheme to provide food support worth over 400 million pounds this year alone. ... full story

Neil Parish MEP calls for "independent body" to make animal health decisions

PAD (Protecting Animals in Democracy) have congratulated Plaid Cymru MEP Jill Evans in their preview of the European elections: "Congratulations and thanks to Jill Evans, Plaid Cymru's MEP in Wales, for scoring a perfect +15 in her votes on animal experimentation. It might be worth considering voting for them in Wales for tactical reasons as the best party with a good chance of winning a seat...

CORPORATE ABUSE OF EU LAW TO BLAME FOR "BRITISH JOBS" DISPUTE - NOT EXPLOITED FOREIGN WORKERS, SAYS GREEN MEP   Caroline Lucas helps launch official MEP call for revision of Posted Workers Directive   The South East's Green MEP Caroline Lucas today joined with four other Euro-MPs to launch a call for the European Commission to urgently revise EU employment law to prevent&n...

The man who frequently attends lavish banquets (and gets lost, likely resulting in wasted food due to time constraints between courses) and sits in parliament alongside this, is telling us what to do to stop wasting food.The government tell us that four million tonnes of food are wasted every year in Britain. Four million! Christ, that's a lot isn't it? Well, no actually. When you divide that up b...