Content by tag : Animal welfare
Following a two-year period peppered with revelations about animal abuse in slaughterhouses, Flemish animal welfare minister Ben Weyts has announced the appointment of a team of inspectors w
Keeping and breeding hybrid cats in Brussels will be illegal from now on, thanks to a decree approved by Brussels government.
An "animal party" will be standing in Belgium's regional and federal elections next month for the first time.
Regulations concerning the breeding and sale of cats and dogs in Flanders, as well as animal shelters and boarding facilities, have been tightened up.
Animal rights organisation Gaia has launched a campaign to urge authorities to ban the sale of kangaroo meat in Belgium.
A draft law banning fur farming has been approved by the Flemish government.
Puppies are to Christmas what bunnies are to Easter: good gifts.
The Brussels parliament has unananimously agreed to grant a higher level of protection to animals, by approving a text recognising them as sentient beings and not just objects.
Two goats at Ferme Nos Pilifs in northern Brussels have died after visitors ignored warnings not to feed the animals.
