Document type: news item from the Référendum pour les animaux website
Summary: At a press conference, journalist Hugo Clément and three entrepreneurs, Xavier Niel, Marc Simoncini and Jacques-Antoine Granjon, supported by 23 animal protection associations, more than 50 personalities and nearly 40 members of parliament, launched a referendum project of shared initiative in favour of animals. They presented a Bill with 6 key measures that they would like to be operational from January 2025: a ban on the caging of livestock; a ban on the breeding of animals for the purpose of obtaining fur; a ban on the construction of farms without access to the outdoors; a ban on hunting with foxes and other so-called traditional hunting practices; a ban on shows involving live animals of non-domestic species; a ban on animal experiments when there is an alternative research method. This bill must be supported by at least 185 members of parliament and then validated by the Constitutional Council before being submitted to a referendum on a shared initiative. It will then have to collect 4.7 million signatures, i.e. 10% of the people registered on the electoral lists, in 9 months for the bill to be sent to Parliament or to the French people for a referendum vote.
