The number of blood release failures, which can be considered the percentage of slaughter failures, has been released by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s Meat Reduction Survey. What happened to the numbers in 2023 and 2024, when the…
Domestic cage-free chicken numbers increase but still lowest in the world at 1.48% Faster shift to animal welfare livestock production needed Cage-free egg rearing, which emphasizes animal welfare, is spreading rapidly around the world, and many food companies and retail…
A new stage following the abolition of pregnancy stalls Starzen has long announced a policy of phasing out the use of “gestation stalls,” in which sows are confined to metal stalls during gestation where they cannot move, and is one…
The summers of 2024 and 2025 were and are predicted to be unusually hot. Imagine. If you are deprived of water for more than 12 hours in such a situation…. You can see that it would be very harsh and…
In August 2025, BAP certification, an international certification for aquaculture, officially announced that by December 31, 2030, all BAP-certified shrimp production facilities will fully end the practice of eyestalk ablation and external procurement of the relevant PL (seed) with support…
A new format question on the subject of animal welfare is now available in the “2026 Practice Test for the Common University Entrance Test: Japanese,” a practice test for the Common University Entrance Test prep school. Advisor- (Professor Emeritus, Japan…
As usual, the risk of Japanese chicken remains high. According to a study by Professor Takamasa Sasaki of Obihiro University published in the Journal of Veterinary Medical Science in 2025, salmonella was detected in 86.4% of vacuum-packed chicken meat in…
The Animal Rights Center sent a protest to TBS Hiruobi on August 17, 2025, because of a scene in which animals were disrespected. During the program, one retail store owner explained that pigs have gotten used to the heat and…
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook (Outlook) 2025-2034 has been released. Unfortunately, over the next decade, meat consumption was projected to increase by 47.9 million tons and production by 13%. Particularly increasing will be poultry, with consumption projected to increase by about…
On June 9, 2025, at the House of Councillors Accounts Committee, Japan Restoration Association member Seiichi Kushida pressed Prime Minister Ishiba and Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Koizumi to address animal welfare. Since the WAP evaluation gave Japan’s livestock…
On June 3, 2025, at a Lower House Environment Committee meeting, Representative Kenko Matsuki of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan pointed out that the prior loss of consciousness at poultry slaughterhouses is highly problematic because more than 70% of…
This is a report on the February 2024 charges filed against eight employees of the Ibaraki Prefectural Livestock Breeding Center and their employer, Ibaraki Prefecture, for assaulting and improperly raising cattle in violation of the Animal Protection Law. In response…
Animal welfare is not a new value system, but a unique Japanese culture and traditional value system that Japanese people originally had, which is to take care of living things and coexist with animals. This is what Councilor Yuko Kitano…
The government’s lack of understanding and subsidy for investment in animal welfare facilities has become a bottleneck for cage-free, gestation stall-free, and improved chicken slaughterhouses. Seeing this as a problem, a Diet member, Katsuhiko Yamada of the Democratic Party of…
On April 15, 2025, we held an in house meeting to discuss what needs to be done for the protection and welfare of laboratory and livestock animals. 200 people filled the room, and in an enthusiastic atmosphere, 18 congressmen and…
In recent years, countries around the world have banned fur farms one after another, and the fur trade has been banned in California and other states. However, the fur problem has yet to be resolved in Japan or anywhere else…
In Japan, poultry slaughterhouses (poultry slaughterhouses) for chickens, ducks, and other poultry are in dire straits, omitting the process of pre-awareness loss, which is done all over the world. To get an idea of the global standard, we have compiled…
Once a year since 2016, the Animal Rights Center has used a general research firm to conduct a survey to determine how much is known about the status of livestock animal husbandry. The ten questions are as follows [Survey title]…
On February 19, I had the opportunity to petition the Minister of the Environment, Mr. Keiichiro Asao, through Mr. Kenko Matsuki, a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. We requested that the Ministry of the Environment correct the…
Starbucks Corporation announced on January 31, 2025 that starting February 15, 2025, “● Soy milk (soymilk) in beverage products to make it easier for customers to enjoy the rich taste of the product, uniformly at all Starbucks stores. 1 In…