Published in 2024
Answer from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to a question from a Member of Parliament concerning the role and number of veterinarians in charge of controls in French abattoirs.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Key words:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Transformation
Published in 2024
The shared views of a group of INRAE researchers on the interdisciplinary research needed to support the transition to sustainable livestock production systems. Animal health and welfare are at the heart of these issues.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Societal issues, Environment, Living environment, One Welfare, Human-animal relationship, Farming system
Published in 2024
Scientific synthesis of pain-reduction strategies for kids during disbudding on the farm. The authors conclude that current best practice for reducing pain during disbudding would be sedation/analgesia with an alpha-2 agonist, placement of a two-point cornual nerve block, followed by an NSAID for postoperative pain.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Caprines
Keywords: Pain, Mutilation
Published in 2024
Answer to a question about the time taken by the Commission and EFSA to prepare the revision of European legislation concerning the "end of the cage era", a revision which was not fully completed in the end.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Livestock building, Housing, Containment equipment, Livestock system, Societal issues
Published in 2024
This article looks at the origins of the concept of animal welfare in European law, starting with the Maastricht Treaty (1992). The scope of the cross-cutting clause in art. 13 of the TFEU (Lisbon Treaty, 2007) codifying respect for animal welfare in Europe may vary from one member state to another.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues
Published in 2024
Article describing the environmental challenges of livestock farming, along with its impact on animal welfare and global health. The article underlines the need for farming practices to evolve, with animal health and welfare as key contributors to the sustainability of livestock farming.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Biodiversity, Environment, Population management, One Welfare, Pollution, Societal issues, Farming system
Published in 2024
Scientific article explaining the risks of conflating the concept of animal welfare with that of sustainable farming.Linking them can blur their differences and may result in misguided agricultural political decision-making.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords: Environment, One Welfare, Pollution, Farming system,Societal issues
Published in 2024
Article summarising the benefits and potential of precision monitoring technologies (wearable sensors, video observation and smartphones) to increase production and improve welfare in livestock farming.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Precision breeding
Published in 2024
Audit report on the system implemented by the Greek goverment to ensure compliance with regulations protecting animals being transported to the abattoir. While it recognizes improvements, it concludes that the measures implemented by the competent authorities are not yet fully compliant with the five points of the 2009 ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union. It contains eight recommendations to the competent authorities to remedy the shortcomings identified.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Pigs
Keywords: Transport
Published in 2023
Answer to a question on whether the French Government plans to pursue the legislative changes initiated by the Law of November 30, 2021 by prohibiting the exploitation of domestic animals in traveling shows.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Dogs, Goats, Equines, Birds (excluding poultry)
Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Societal issues, Human-animal relationship, Stress
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