Dear FAST Community,  I'm excited to announce that Vegans Support the Farmers are attending the Landworkers' Alliance "Food In Our Hands" rally in solidarity on Saturday 26th April in central London. Ongoing attempts to hijack the UK’s farming movement by the far-right make it more urgent than ever to unite and put forward our progressive vision for a vibrant, anti-oppressive and sustainable food and farming system. We need your support!  🗓️ When? Saturday April 26th, 12pm (2pm marching) 📍 Where? Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London Please save the date if you'd like to join us, and for more information please register to come to our zoom and hear directly from the LWA why they’ve organised the rally: 💻 Tues 22nd April 7pm - https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jfI4MhLYTqG-X3OdICpXGw  Thanks for your support, Tom Gardener Co-Founder, Vegans Support the Farmers www.veganssupportthefarmers.co.uk  

Fórum Animal are pleased to announce that Alfa Piscicultura, a Brazilian tilapia producer, has committed to maintain animal welfare standards. This includes daily water quality assessments and keeping predators away from tanks. Additionally, Pizza Prime, the largest pizza franchise in Brazil, published its crate-free commitment to only buy pork from suppliers that work with sows group housing throughout gestation. Pizza Prime has committed to making this transition by 2026. You can find both commitments in Portuguese by accessing: * Alfa Piscicultura: "Bem-estar" at the Instagram profile @alfapiscicultura * Pizza Prime: website post In terms of impact, we estimate that Alfa Piscicultura's commitment will guarantee the benefit of over 1.400.000 tilapias per year! On the other hand, Pizza Prime's crate-free commitment should benefit over 259 pigs per year. Pizza Prime should also contribute to impact thousands of consumers with its new animal welfare policy that will be applied to the company's 70 stores across the country. We conducted 1 year of friendly negotiation with the companies. Our next steps will be to encourage both companies to share their success story in animal welfare and to Pizza Prime report its progress. For the animals.