{"id":68497,"date":"2026-02-05T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/?p=68497"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:43:31","slug":"penalties-too-lenient-for-animal-abuse-in-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/penalties-too-lenient-for-animal-abuse-in-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Penalties too lenient for animal abuse in farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u2026What does a major industrial group like\u00a0<strong>Gruppo Veronesi (AIA)<\/strong>\u2014at the head of farming operations such as\u00a0<strong>La Pellegrina<\/strong>\u00a0and those in\u00a0<strong>Bondeno<\/strong>, which have come under investigation over carcasses, rats and serious hygiene and sanitary shortcomings\u2014actually risk? From a criminal-law standpoint, essentially nothing, except in exceptional cases where top management is directly implicated. Liability remains confined to the lowest levels of the supply chain, while the lead companies continue to operate without structural consequences\u2014neither in terms of sanctions nor in reputational terms.<\/p>\n<p>As long as penalties remain this modest and responsibility continues to stop at the last links in the chain, convictions for animal mistreatment in intensive farming will remain isolated episodes, incapable of bringing about real change in the practices of a sector that still presents itself as an \u201cexcellence\u201d, even when the images tell a very different story.<\/p>\n<p><em>Il Fatto Alimentare<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_single_image image=&#8221;68414&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u2026What does a major industrial group like\u00a0Gruppo Veronesi (AIA)\u2014at the head of farming operations such as\u00a0La Pellegrina\u00a0and those in\u00a0Bondeno, which have come under investigation over carcasses, rats and serious hygiene and sanitary shortcomings\u2014actually risk? From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-protection","category-food-and-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68498,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68497\/revisions\/68498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}