Slaughtering without stun treatment, finally improving?
Slaughter without stun treatment, only in Japan, is here to stay. Chickens have been suffering for more than 50 years…
Profitability improvement requirements removed! Subsidies for sustainable livestock production strengthened!
A cage-free rate of 1.48% is not very high enough for Japan to make the transition to cage-free as well.…
CAS of chickens: subsidies began to be provided to Animal Welfare!
The FY2025 supplemental budget was approved by the Budget Committee. Included in this budget was an important one for animal…
Started signing a petition to the Diet calling for a ban on animal testing of cosmetics.
We don’t want animal sacrifices! We look forward to your cooperation! The three organizations, the Japan Association for the Abolition…
Ethical store, 3 stores are cage free!
In response to an inquiry from the Animal Rights Center, three restaurants, MUKU, a café-restaurant and select store in Sendai…
Question about Animal Welfare at Chiba Prefectural Assembly
On September 19, 2025, Councilor Toshiyuki Ogawa (Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, Chiba Prefectural Assembly Members’ Association) asked a general…
Percentage of chickens boiled and killed, meat chickens worse again
The number of blood release failures, which can be considered the percentage of slaughter failures, has been released by the…
A Step Forward by Bourbon, a 100-Year-Old Company: Seriousness about Cage-Free, Tested in the Global Trend
Bourbon, founded in 1924, announced in its 149th Annual Securities Report released on June 20, 2025, that as a company…
Cage-free feather count survey: only 1.48%, the lowest in the world
Domestic cage-free chicken numbers increase but still lowest in the world at 1.48% Faster shift to animal welfare livestock production…
Sturzen Announces Effort to Make Eggs Cage-Free from Meat Industry
A new stage following the abolition of pregnancy stalls Starzen has long announced a policy of phasing out the use…
No water to drink even at a temperature of 35 degrees Celsius…domestic slaughterhouses demand immediate action.
The summers of 2024 and 2025 were and are predicted to be unusually hot. Imagine. If you are deprived of…
Shrimp eyestalk ablation abolished, BAP certification to follow.
In August 2025, BAP certification, an international certification for aquaculture, officially announced that by December 31, 2030, all BAP-certified shrimp…
2026 Practical Questions for the Common University Entrance Test: Animal Welfare in the Japanese Language
A new format question on the subject of animal welfare is now available in the “2026 Practice Test for the…
Abnormal values! 86% of chicken meat contaminated with salmonella
As usual, the risk of Japanese chicken remains high. According to a study by Professor Takamasa Sasaki of Obihiro University…
Protest against TBS program that disrespects animal suffering
The Animal Rights Center sent a protest to TBS Hiruobi on August 17, 2025, because of a scene in which…
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook: Animal Protein Still Projected to Increase…
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook (Outlook) 2025-2034 has been released. Unfortunately, over the next decade, meat consumption was projected to increase…
Councilor Kushida calls for animal welfare from Prime Minister Ishiba and Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Koizumi!
On June 9, 2025, at the House of Councillors Accounts Committee, Japan Restoration Association member Seiichi Kushida pressed Prime Minister…
Councilor Kenko Matsuki pointed out the loss of prior awareness of chicken slaughter, and the Ministry of the Environment’s response was limp!
On June 3, 2025, at a Lower House Environment Committee meeting, Representative Kenko Matsuki of the Constitutional Democratic Party of…
Readable Shiba Park Hotel Highly sensitive cage-free initiative
Shiba Park Hotel, which boasts one of the largest collections of books in Japan, “where you can read as much…
Report on the results of the Prosecutor’s Office’s decision on the abuse accusation against the Ibaraki Prefectural Livestock Breeding Center.
This is a report on the February 2024 charges filed against eight employees of the Ibaraki Prefectural Livestock Breeding Center…
Animal Welfare is also necessary for food safety: Rep. Yuko Kitano and Minister of the Environment Asao
Animal welfare is not a new value system, but a unique Japanese culture and traditional value system that Japanese people…
Assistance for Cage-Free, Discussion Begins: Councilor Katsuhiko Yamada and Minister Taku Eto
The government’s lack of understanding and subsidy for investment in animal welfare facilities has become a bottleneck for cage-free, gestation…
Report on the In-Hospital Meeting for Livestock and Laboratory Animals
On April 15, 2025, we held an in house meeting to discuss what needs to be done for the protection…
Fur imports, a small decrease: still 189,639 animals sacrificed
In recent years, countries around the world have banned fur farms one after another, and the fur trade has been…
Regulations on chicken slaughter: a comparison of countries
In Japan, poultry slaughterhouses (poultry slaughterhouses) for chickens, ducks, and other poultry are in dire straits, omitting the process of…