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Provides basic anti-cruelty legislation for animals.

Limits maximum duration of journey time for live animals and provides minimum animal welfare standards during the transport of live animals.

Imposes alternatives to the use of antibiotics, including lower densities on farms.

Bans factory farming

Recognises animal sentience.

Recognises animal sentience.

Determines that the federal government shall legislate on matters related to animal protection, and that regional governments (cantons) shall execute such federal legislation.

Lists and regulates the use of critically important antimicrobials.

Sets minimum animal welfare standards in the production of broiler chickens by establishing limits on density on farms with more than 500 broiler chickens.

Sets minimum animal welfare standards for calves by limiting the use of cages (individual pens) until the animal reaches eight weeks of age.

Implements a carbon pricing programme involving a carbon tax and offset system in agriculture.

Penalises pig and calf producers under the form of reduced subsidies in cases of breaches with the Pigs and Calves Directives.

Imposes a duty on the State to protect animals.

Sets minimum animal welfare standards in egg production by banning conventional battery cages, limiting stocking densities and setting standards for two types of farming systems: enriched battery cages, and systems without cages.

New Zealand's water policies for healthy waterways.

Sets reduction targets of greenhouse gas emissions in animal agriculture.

Imposes higher voluntary animal welfare standards.

Sets general principles to safeguard the welfare of animals during international transport by air, road, and rail.

Sets general principles to ensure minimum welfare levels for farmed animals.

Formulates policy and legal recommendations and outlines best practice policy on antibiotic stewardship across global supply chains to guide the development of individual policies for corporations.

Sets minimum standards regulating the treatment of all farmed animals, including fish, animals for fur, skin, or fur purposes, except invertebrates.

Formulates recommendations to phase out production uses of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals to align practices with the FDA's recommendations included in the guidance document "The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals" (Judicious Use Guidance, GFI #209).

Reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.

Sets reduction targets of greenhouse gas emissions in animal agriculture.

Regulates the use of medically important antimicrobials, including by prohibiting their use for growth promotion purposes.

Increases VAT on meat and fish.

Reduces the use of antimicrobials by regulating the use of medicated feed and prohibiting the use of medicated feed for preventative purposes.

Improves the standards on the City's Good Food Purchasing Program by reducing meat from menus and offering more vegan and plant-based options.

Provides a methodology to estimate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions of food purchased by the state agency.

Regulates agricultural activities by setting limits on the emissions of nitrates.

Public procurement policy reducing the city's beef purchases and phasing out purchase of processed meat.

Sets minimum animal welfare standards in pork production, including breeding animals, by setting maximum density levels and limiting the length of crates use (gestating and farrowing).

Imposes the use of e-prescriptions for antimicrobials.

Regulates the use of medically important antimicrobial, including by prohibiting their use for growth promotion purposes.

Sets general principles on the welfare of animals, including during transport and slaughter.

Creates a carbon price on the importation of goods from sectors high in GHG emissions.

Reduces factory farming

Sets a limit on nitrogen emissions in The Netherlands.

Recognises animal sentience and imposes a duty on the EU and national governments to take into account the welfare of animals.

This regulation prohibits the use of antimicrobials for preventive purposes.

Regulates aquaculture facilities through a licensing system that allows for government inspection and requires the adherence of environmental standards.

Limits the ways in which aquaculture facilities may obtain antibiotics.

Sets a new framework for the proper consideration of animal sentience in policy and legislative-making.

Limits overfishing.

Improves sustainability in fish production.

Establishes conservation protection for fisheries in the Artic Ocean. Applies to Canada, China, Denmark, the EU, Iceland, Japan, Norway, South Korea, Russia, and the USA.

Reduces incidental bycatch by prohibiting the use of non-selective fishing methods

Reduces incidental bycatch of marine animals by prohibiting their killing and by prohibiting the sale of seafood from jurisdictions that do not have equivalent protection rules.

Provides a policy for the development of proteins, including for human consumption

Establishes fish welfare standards in aquaculture

Establishes guidance for the labeling of plant-based milk alternatives

Prohibits confining sows, calves and egg laying hens in a manner that prevents the covered animal from lying down, standing up, or fully extending their limbs, as well as turning around freely without touching a wall or another animal.

Prohibits confining egg-laying hens in cages, as well as the sale of eggs from caged hens.

Prohibits confining egg-laying hens in cages, as well as the sale of eggs from caged hens.

Requires school districts to provide a plant-based school lunch option.

Sets a minimum of 50% of foods served in public cafetarias to originate from quality labeled production.

Requires city cafeterias to provide only organic food