Document type: thesis uploaded on DUMAS (Dépôt Universitaire de Mémoires après Soutenance)
Author: Maximilien Bailly
Preview: The Conseil National de l'Alimentation and its animal welfare missions, the example of the Comité National d'Éthique des Abattoirs (National Abattoir Ethics Committee)
The French national council of food (CAN) is an independent advisory body, which reports to the ministries in charge of agriculture, of consumption, of the environment and of health. Its composition and its mandate developed over time and it advises nowadays on a various number of subjects related to food, such as food products quality, food safety, crisis prevention, communication on risks, consumers information and nutrition. It creates on these subjects consultative meetings with all the relevant stakeholders in order to organize hearings of specialists and experts and followed by debates in order to identify acknowledgments, stakes and consensual advices. Thus the CNA was requested to manage the National committee of slaughterhouse ethics (CNEAb) in a social crisis context with repeated scandals in slaughterhouses. Initially intended to be temporary and to answer to this crisis context, the CNEAb was made permanent in order to keep a forum for discussion on the sensitive subject of slaughterhouses. Furthermore, the CNEAb is today the only permanent consultative group of the CNA. Its perpetuation and the trusting environment of the CNEAb allows it to set up fruitful and peaceful debates which are necessary to deal with the wide and complex subject of the slaughterhouse ethics. The CNEAb appears to also be an unique organization among the European Union, by gathering all of the relevant stakeholders to deal with animal protection within slaughterhouses. The CNEAb may also be really useful in the context of the European regulatory review concerning animal protection, especially on the subject of animal transport.
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