Animal category: Cattle

Every step you take: Nudging animal welfare product purchases in a virtual supermarket

Nina Weingarten, Leonie Bach, Jutta Roosen, Monika Hartmann

Published in 2024

Scientific article analyzing the behavior of German consumers in a virtual supermarket where shelves featuring products produced according to animal welfare standards were made prominent using visual marketing techniques (footprints on the floor and banners). Marketing influenced the behavior of meat, milk and egg consumers, and sales of animal-welfare compliant products doubled in the compared with the control group.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Identification, Processing

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European Parliament: Written answer to question E-000130/24: Relaunching the reform of EU rules for the transport of animals

Question: Annika Bruna (ID). Answer: Mrs Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2024

The Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union will not be supporting the proposed new European regulation on the protection of animals during transport. An MEP asks the European Commission on its intentions to relaunch this reform project, and on the possibility that the transport of meat transport could be encouraged as an alternative to live animal transport.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Animal trade, Transport

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Animal welfare at German abattoirs: insights into the occurrence of violations against laws and regulations from official veterinarians and judicial decisions

Stephanie Janet Schneidewind, Susann Langforth, Diana Meemken

Published in 2024

Analysis of a survey on the occurrence of various animal welfare violations in German abattoirs. Offences reported and penalized mainly concerned the use of prohibited driving aids, lack of care, and improper restraint, stunning and bleeding. The authors suggest that official veterinarians should carry out closer monitoring of compliance with the legislation for these specific situations and that the training of abattoir staff should be improved.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Processing

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Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n°15015 : Conditions de mise à mort des animaux dans les abattoirs

Question: Béatrice Roullaud (Rassemblement National - Seine-et-Marne). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.

Published in 2024

Answer from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to a question from a member of parliament on the conditions under which animals are killed in abattoirs, and the measures the government intends to take to ensure effective controls by veterinary services and compliance with current regulations. The presence of an animal welfare officer in each abattoir must also be confirmed.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Processing

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Abattoir mobile : retour sur la mise à l’arrêt du premier dispositif d’abattage à la ferme en France

Louise Chevallier

Published in 2024

Article reporting on the failure of a mobile on-farm cattle slaughtering initiative, despite the fact that this alternative model meets the animal welfare expectations of both consumers and farmers. The farmer involved looks back at the challenges and obstacles she faced, including the lack of parity instate subsidies compared with industrial abattoirs.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Euthanasia, Livestock farming system,Societal issues, Stress, Transportation

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Assemblée nationale : Réponse écrite à la question n°14571 : Sur les manquements graves de l’abattoir de Craon

Question: Julien Odoul (Rassemblement National - Yonne). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.

Published in 2024

MASA's response to a question from a French Member of Parliament about animal abuse at the Craon abattoir, despite the Ministry's creation of a national task force in 2021 to increase inspections under the French Abattoir Plan.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Processing

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Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n°14567 : Non-conformité de certains abattoirs de Mayenne

Question: Vincent Ledoux (Renaissance - Nord). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Published in 2024

MASA's response to a question from a French Member of Parliament about the abuse suffered by animals in certain abattoirs in Mayenne, despite the creation by the Ministry in 2021 of a national inspection task force to increase monitoring as part of the French Abattoir Plan.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Processing

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Veal calf welfare and rearing 

Didier Bastien, Magdéléna Chanteperdrix, Virginie Lefoul, Christophe Martineau, Etienne Labussière, Manuel Tourtier

Published in 2024

Article summarising papers on veal calves given at the 74th European Animal Science Congress (EAAP). The presentations discussed work to identify societal expectations, establish the impact of different housing and feeding methods, evaluate changes in antibiotic use and develop tools for assessing biosecurity on farms.

Document Types: Technical review

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Livestock buildings, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Housing, Socialization, livestock farming system

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European Parliament: written answer to question E-000006/24: Fostering the development of mobile abattoirs

Question: Annika Bruna (ID). Answer: Mr Wojciechowski on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2024

Answer to a question from a Member of the European Parliament on the Commission's planned strategy to support the development of mobile abattoirs.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Key word:Animal trade, Euthanasia, Abuse,  Livestock farming system, Transport

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European Parliament: Written answer to Question E-003635/23: Reviving our local slaughterhouses by requiring meat to be exported instead of live animals

Question: Annika Bruna (ID). Answer: Mrs Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2024

Answer to a question from an MEP asking the European Commission about its position on a proposal to boost small local abattoirs by stopping the long-distance transport of live animals and replacing it with the transport of meat.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry

Keywords:Animal trade, Carcass quality, Transport

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