BEUC and its contributors name at the EU Fee to heed shoppers’ considerations and fulfil its dedication on animal welfare, by way of proposing new rules and updating current ones.
Major takeaways from the survey are:
- Nearly 9 in 10 shoppers toughen new rules to enhance the welfare of farmed animals within the EU comparable to offering extra residing house, banning cage programs and mutilations.
- Customers wish to know extra about how farmed animals are reared and wish devoted labelling.
- The transition to raised farm animal welfare programs should be truthful to farmers and shoppers.
To what prolong would you are saying that the welafre of livestock issues to you?
Extra findings:
- Higher labelling: 3 in 4 (72%) shoppers need means of manufacturing labelling to be prolonged to different merchandise past eggs.
- Lack of know-how: Over 6 in 10 shoppers really feel they’ve a low degree of information on animal welfare practices. The assessments we ran ascertain this and confirmed that they generally tend to each overestimate and underestimate welfare stipulations.
- Beef up to farmers: Customers agree (78%) that imports of animal merchandise must be matter to the similar welfare regulations as the ones produced within the EU. A robust majority (74%) would love the EU to offer budget to farmers to enforce upper animal welfare requirements.
- No to ‘welfare-washing’: Customers have low agree with in animal welfare claims by way of firms and 84% would react negatively to welfare-washing.
- Monetary toughen wanted: 7 in 10 shoppers are prepared to pay extra for upper animal welfare requirements, but to various levels (as much as 5% just for part of the ones prepared to pay extra). Whilst an excessively massive majority of customers considers it essential to enhance animal welfare requirements, EU and nationwide governments should be sure that the prices of this transition are equitably shared and no longer borne by way of shoppers best.
- Generally, shoppers understand chickens and pigs to be the farmed animals with the worst welfare stipulations. The collection of respondents who assume that the welfare stipulations for pigs are ‘dangerous’ is 35% and the quantity who consider such stipulations to be ‘just right’ is 24%.
- Relatively greater than a 3rd (35%) of respondents could be prepared to pay as much as 5% extra for meals which is produced with upper animal welfare requirements. One in 5 (21%) could be prepared to pay as much as 10% extra, 8% could be prepared to pay as much as 20% extra. One in twenty (5%) would even pay greater than 20% for such meals. Then again, one out of 3 (31%) additionally indicated they wouldn’t be
prepared to pay the rest extra.
Are you prepared to pay extra for meals this is produced with upper animal welfare requirements than the ones recurrently used?
27 February 2024/ BEUC/ Ecu Union.
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