Translation of "intensive livestock " (English → French) :

(e)Intensive livestock installations (projects not included in Annex I).

22. Believes that the CAP should support a move from intensive livestock production to more sustainable animal husbandry; therefore calls on the Commission to consider premiums for livestock farmers who use extensive grazing systems and grow their own feed;

15. Asks the European Commission to consider specific measures, within the next CAP reform, to avoid serious losses of EU support for sustainable intensive livestock farmers;

11. Asks the Commission to consider specific measures, within the next CAP reform, to avoid serious losses of EU support for intensive livestock farmers which apply sustainable production conditions;

109. Recognises that the cultivation of cereals and soya as feed for livestock is responsible for substantial greenhouse gas emissions; recalls the report entitled “Livestock’s Long Shadow” issued by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in November 2006, which states that the livestock industry is responsible for 18% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions; considers that a switch from intensive livestock production to extensive sustainable systems should be encouraged while total meat consumption also needs to be reduced, in particular in industrialised countries;

For that reason it is positive that some more political interest is at last emerging in animal suffering caused by intensive livestock farming.