The European Parliament’s agriculture committee called on the Commission on Wednesday 25 January to draft “a road map towards financially sustainable minimum standards” for the protection of rabbits farmed and slaughtered for meat production in the EU.
The MEPs on the committee adopted numerous compromise amendments somewhat lowering the initial level of ambition of the initiative report by Stefan Eck (GUE/NGL, Germany). Eck was rather critical of the farming methods and called for...