1. incentives for the production of plant proteins
Including plant-based milk and egg substitutes, and for the production of cultivated meat, as well as for research into increasingly ‘clean’ and ‘ethical’ production of cultivated meat, thereby improving animal welfare and helping to protect the environment and public health.
2. gradually reduce the number of farmed animalsAt a rate of 50% of the existing number of farm animals each year – starting from the year that the requirement and the necessary directive are transposed in each Member State – and to progressively close all animal farms.
We are not here as animal spokes people because animals have a voice and constantly rebel in farms, slaughterhouses, fishing nets, they attach themselves with all their strength to life, because they are sentient beings and experience the same suffering as us. Many of the people who are reading this have probably never met the gaze of a cow taken to slaughter, but if you had you would see such a strong attachment to life, animals that poke the bars, screaming, showing signs of stress, cannibalism, apathy, and stereotyped behaviors that indicate severe stress. And it is not just a question of empathy, but of justice. We live in an age where we always begin to notice more than inequalities and the need for rights, in a state that should undertake to guarantee fundamental rights to human beings and also promises them to animals, as enshrined in our constitution. So why do we find it so absurd to think that an animal’s life matters? Why do we mock those who are not ashamed to say it and fight for their rights? After all, we human beings are also part of the animal kingdom, one thing that unites all of us is the criterion of sentience, therefore everyone should have the right to life.
Our current food system has a serious impact on the environment and breeding is identified as one of the main causes of the climate crisis: for this reason, alternatives to animal proteins are being promoted.
The plant-based choice is linked both to ethical and health reasons but also to the reduced environmental impact that this entails and to its potential to mitigate emissions, which are fundamental in the context of the climate crisis we are facing: according to the IPCC, the mitigation potential of vegan diet is the highest compared to all other diets, the Mediterranean one is in last place.
No product that comes from farming is natural.
It is not natural to artificially inseminate sows, put them in cages and give birth. It is not natural to have puppies born, fattened to slaughter weight and then taken to a slaughterhouse.
It is not natural to eat meat from a chicken that has been genetically selected to reach slaughter weight in 40 days.
It is not natural to have selected hens to make them produce one egg a day, when in the past they only produced one hundred a year.
It is not natural to artificially inseminate a cow, to give birth and have milk to drink in coffee, it is not natural to tear the calf from her and make it grow in boxes and then send it to the slaughterhouse.
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