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Repaco Ltd., which operates 14 stores in Fukushima Prefecture and other areas in Tohoku has committed to cage-free, showing consideration for the animal welfare of their egg-laying hens. Repaco Co., Ltd. started producing its own cage-free eggs in 2021. The eggs from hens raised on homemade fruit yeast feed are sold under the name “Fruit Eggs”. The following four photos are actual photos of Repaco’s barn-raised poultry The person in charge of Fruits & Eggs has already known that He says “A pastry chef who values quality ingredients personally developed eggs that met their own standards. ‘Fruit Eggs’ are used in all of Repaco’s pastries. We thought about what makes…
A response has been received from the town of Kujukuri regarding the 3,000 sardines being kept in overcrowded conditions at the entrance to the Sea Station Kujukuri Sardine Museum operated by the town of Kujukuri, Chiba Prefecture. As for the request to discontinue the sardine exhibit, the response is as follows: “The sardine tank was installed as one of the purposes of attracting visitors to our facility, and we think it is well received.In addition, as of April 1, 2023, with the approval of the Town Council, we have already contracted with a private company to maintain the water tank for one year until March 31, 2024, and we believe…
ARC HQ (Tokyo) LUSH Shinjuku x Animal Rights Center JapanFor three days from April 1st to 3rd, we rented a charity space at the LUSH Shinjuku store to hold a charity event “Why is this hen so worn out?” – problem of chicken eggs in Japan -“. At the event, outreach activities were carried out, such as showing videos and slides of the actual cage rearing of egg-laying hens, and distributing flyers to eliminate factory farming of livestocks. LUSH has had a policy against animal testing since its inception, and in 2019 removed cage-free eggs from all of its products, making the choice to further reduce the suffering of animals.…
The Itoman Harley, held annually on the fourth day of the fifth lunar month (June 21) in Itoman City, Okinawa, is reported to be resumed this year after being suspended for four years due to a pandemic. The Harley itself is a very peaceful event in which a large number of people row boats and compete, and is also held in Naha and other cities. However, the one held in Itoman is interspersed with an inhumane pastime in which 50 ducks are tossed into the sea and chased around and captured. The Animal Rights Center has been calling for the event to be stopped since 2015, but it was held…
April 26th in 2023, a large farm housing 150,000 chicken hens died in a barn fire in Omitama, Ibaraki prefecture. No single chicken survived. They were stuck in their cages, waiting to die in fire. Just imagine their fear and agony. When you take a look at the media coverage, they report as though it was a relief since no humans died. No one reported what actually happened although the police and the fire stations were investigating this case so we inquired about this about 8 years ago. One fire station answered that they didn’t have any record since fires in farm houses were usually regarded as trivial. The newspaper…
Companies that have contributed to the spread of animal welfare The Animal Welfare Award (AWA) is an annual* award to express our gratitude to companies that have made animal welfare efforts with animals in mind in Japan, a country that lags behind the rest of the world in animal welfare for livestock and aquatic animals. We evaluated initiatives that we believe had the greatest possible impact from the perspective of the Animal Rights Center Japan, which is involved in activities to protect farm animals in Japan. *April 2022 – March 2023
Umi no Eki Kujukuri, located near the sea in the town of Kujukuri, Chiba Prefecture, has a facility called the Sardine Museum Iwashi Siryoukan. As soon as you enter Umi-no-Eki’s kiosk, you will see an fish tank on the left, and the entrance to the museum is next to it. This tank was filled with sardines, which are kept in an incredibly overcrowded environment. ARCJ have received a report, conducted an investigation, and have currently submitted questions and requests to the facility. The sardine tank appears to have a width of about 3-4 meters, isn’t very deep, and seems to be around 2 meters in height. According to the museum’s…
Goldfish and killifish are sold at the flower and tree sales corner of Mutsuzawa Roadside Station in Mutsuzawa Town, Chiba Prefecture. The fish are sold in plastic bags. In particular, a type of goldfish called “Ranchu” was kept alone in a plastic bag with not enough water to cover its entire body. This method of sale would of course not allow for feeding or changing the water. The amount of feces indicates that the goldfish will be trapped in this environment for more than just a day or so. Of course, there are no water plants to hide in, and the goldfish stayed at the edge of the bag and…
The Animal Rights Center Japan (ARC) has been working with the Ibaraki Prefectural Government to address bird damage to lotus root crops in the Kasumigaura area of Ibaraki Prefecture,We have been working on this issue for 14 years, including submitting written requests. Why can’t this problem be solved? The issue of agriculture and food damage tends to be discussed in the direction of how to utilize the exterminated animals (for food and leather) in a non-wasteful manner, rather than focusing on reducing the extermination itself. The problem of animals that cannot be utilized in business tends to be neglected. What can be done to address this issue effectively? On March…
International conferences, which had been blocked due to the Corona disaster, are now being held with the same level of glamour as in the past. International events that host dignitaries from various countries, promote exchanges among participants, and encourage media traffic are undoubtedly a great opportunity for animal welfare to make progress. Due to the corona outbreak that began in 2019, the Tokyo Olympics, which were scheduled to be held in 2020, were held the following year without spectators, which did not allow animal welfare to make the leap forward as envisioned before the corona. For the first time since then, the G7 summit is expected to be the first…
In the Kasumigaura area of Tsuchiura City, Ibaraki Prefecture, lotus root cultivation using marshland is thriving. The problem has been widely publicized since the Animal Rights Center reported in 2009 that wild birds have been damaged after bird nets (overhead bird nets) were put up in these lotus root fields in 2004. Discussions were also held with Ibaraki Prefecture on February 20, 2009. The Problem of Bird Nets in Kasumigaura Lentil Fields Some farmers put bird nets over the top of their growing lotus root fields to prevent feeding damage by wild birds. However, wild birds enter the field through the gap between the net and the field or through…
Animal fur (real fur) tortures animals, kills them, becomes a breeding ground for zoonotic diseases, and is bad for the environment… This unethical and unnecessary “material” is steadily heading towards zero. We calculated the import volume of fur and fur products from the 2022 Ministry of Finance trade statistics. In 2022, compared to 2021, numbers have decreased slightly as below: The fur itself decreased by 11.76% in number and by 19.12% in weight. Fur products decreased by 9.1% in number and by 2.15% in weight. When converted to the number of animals, the amount of 97,470 animals have decreased. In 2021, the number of victims was 496,900, but in 2022,…
In Japan, pigs and cattle are basically stunned at slaughterhouses before being decapitated and bled to death. However, this process is not 100% complete. This is because it fails. If the fainting process works correctly, the animal will suffer less pain and fear in the final stages. Therefore, efforts to improve the accuracy and reduce the number of failures must always be ongoing. Even one failure from the human point of view is a 100% failure for the animal, and there is no way to recover from it. This Japanese video is from a very common slaughterhouse. Failures are very common. Some people who have visited slaughterhouses will say “it…
The avian flu is raging and companies are being forced to stop producing and selling egg products. This seems to be a major opportunity for food companies to learn about the risks of livestock production for the first time since the mad cow disease. The current avian influenza pandemic is one of the H5N1 subtype A influenza viruses, which mutated into a highly pathogenic strain in 2003 and is potent in several ways. Development of Avian Influenza Avian influenza is a type A flu that infects humans, pigs, and many other animals, all of which come from birds. Originally circulating in waterfowl as a natural host, the virus has infected…
558,181 chickens were boiled alive in 2021, revealed by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) data. The number had continuously increased and hit the worst in 2021, which indicates there had been no efforts to minimize such errors at the slaughterhouses. There are two types of facilities when we talk about slaughterhouses for chickens. One is to slaughter chickens for meat, and the other is to cull laying hens. In 2021, the number increased in the facility to kill chickens for meat while we saw slight improvements in the facility for hens. The impact is huge for the former facility since over 700 million birds are killed for…
What is necessary to resolve the common issue of human beings, the earth and animals is to change animal proteins to better ones and intake them less. Efforts to save animals, promoting animal welfare and veganism are inseparable, as are two wheels of a vehicle. Now that companies are required to work on solving social issues through their core business, the Imperial Hotel TOKYO, after a talk with Animal Rights Center Japan, has started offering “vegan French gastronomy” and “banana smoothie with soy milk and soy flour” as wellness accommodation at the end of last year. Furthermore, they announced they will offer a “sustainable room service plan,” in which people…
On November 30, 2022, Kayoko Natsume, a ward assembly member, asked a general question about animal welfare at a regular meeting of the ward assembly of Katsushika Ward, Tokyo. The question covered three items: the first was about TNR of community cats and the subsidy system, the second was about evacuation with pets. And third, she spoke about the introduction of cage-free egg feeding. Citing the trend of eliminating cage keeping in the EU and the Cabinet Office cafeteria’s cage-free program as examples, she said that Katsushika Ward should also work on this as part of the SDGs and set a good example for society. She stated “Cage-free chicken rearing…
There is a trend in other countries to stop using animals for entertainment, such as circuses, as it is an inappropriate environment for keeping wild animals. In this case, wild animals are those other than domesticated animals. No matter how many generations of wild animals are bred, their innate ecology never leaves them. Therefore, animals bred in captivity in Japan are also considered wild animals and are subject to regulations in 58 countries*1 worldwide. There are two directions in which animal welfare problems in circuses can go: problems that cannot always be prevented in the circus entertainment environment, no matter how careful they are, and problems that can occur if…
A new children’s book “Someday under the Sky Sakura School Hikari Newspaper” has been published. This children’s book should be read by all elementary and junior high school students, or even adults. One day, Asuka met an injured chicken in a corner of a poultry farm.By saving the chicken, which was about to be disposed of, she learns about the reality of this poultry farm.What is the happiness of the chickens and what is our responsibility? ……Asuka was troubled and decided to write a newspaper and publish it. Amazon As those who have visited the Animal Rights Center’s website and social medias know, chickens die and are killed every day…
On Dec.10th, 2022, International Animal Rights Day, we conducted street outreach activities on 3 spots, i.e. Shibuya (Tokyo), Iwate and Shiga, to appeal promotion of animal welfare and protection of animal rights. In Shibuya, a seminar on “animal welfare and rights” was also given. Dec.10th falls on “Human Rights Day.” Every person has the right to live one’s own life as a human being. In the same way, animals have the right to live their own lives. We believe the issue of animal rights is also the issue of animal welfare, just as the issue of human rights is also the issue of human being’s welfare. In the seminar, Ms.…
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