Animal category: Caprines

Animal welfare on the farm - ex-post evaluation of the EU legislation: Prospects for animal welfare labelling at EU level - European Implementation Assessment

European Parliamentary Research Service

Published in 2021

Ex-post evaluation of EU animal-welfare labelling legislation, applying the criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence and EU added value

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Welfare indicators

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French Assemblée Nationale: Written answer to question n°37408: La réglementation de l’abattage des animaux

Laurence Trastour-Isnart (Les Républicains - Alpes-Maritimes), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Answer to an EU parliamentary question on the availability of statistics on the demand for and production of meat from ritual slaughter

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Awareness, Pain, Societal issues

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French Assemblée Nationale: Written answer to question No 37355: Règlementation de l’abattage des animaux-Dérogation à l’obligation d’étourdir

Claire O'Petit (La République en Marche - Eure), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Answer to a parliamentary question on the availability of statistical data on the production of and demand for meat from ritual slaughter.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Awareness, Pain, Societal issues

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French Assemblée Nationale: Written answer to question n°38226: Abattage sans étourdissement

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Non-registered - Essonne), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Answer to a parliamentary question on the availability of statistical data on the production of and demand for meat from ritual slaughter.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Awareness, Pain, Societal issues

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Dairy farmers' heterogeneous preferences for animal welfare-enhancing flooring properties: A mixed logit approach applied in Sweden

E. Owusu-Sekyere, H. Hanssona, E. Telezhenko

Published in 2021

Article showing that Swedish dairy farmers have different opinions on the flooring characteristics that impact animal welfare and therefore on the choice of flooring for their facilities.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines

Keywords:Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Housing

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Senate: Written answer to question n°21673: Abattage sans étourdissement

André Vallini (Isère - SER), French Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Published in 2021

Question on the existence of statistics on the demand for and production of meat from ritually-slaughtered animals in France.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Awareness, Pain, Societal issues

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A Retrospective Literature Evaluation of the Integration of Stress Physiology Indices, Animal Welfare and Climate Change Assessment of Livestock

Edward Narayan, Michelle Barreto, Georgia-Constantina Hantzopoulou, Alan Tilbrook

Published in 2021

Scientific review of articles dealing with 4 topics, both alone and in combination: animal welfare, the physiology of stress, impacts on climate change, and production in livestock farming. It concludes that, although all these areas are strongly represented in the literature, there is a lack of studies examining their interactions and their impacts on livestock production.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Environment,Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Stress

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Fewer, bigger, more intensive: EU vows to stem drastic loss of small farms

Fiona Harvey

Published in 2021

Article presenting the measures to be included in the new EU Common Agricultural Policy to support small farms and ensure better animal welfare.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Societal issues, Breeding and rearing systems

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Animal Welfare Policies and Human Rights in the Context of Slaughter Procedures

Giancarlo Bozzo, Roberta Barrasso, Davide Ferorelli, Vito Gassi, Roberto Russo, Francesco Emanuele Celentano

Published in 2021

Article assessing ritual slaughter practices from a legal perspective, taking into account both wider human rights and animal welfare policies

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Awareness, Pain, Societal issues

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Le bien-être des animaux d’élevage – Évaluer le bien-être animal

Luc Mounier, Alain Boissy, Alice de Boyer des Roches, Christine Duvaux-Ponter, Raphaël Guattéo, Marie-Christine Meunier-Salaün, Pierre Mormède

Published in 2021

The second volume of a series of three reference books from the "Farm Animal Welfare" MOOC developed by French teacher-researchers and animal welfare specialists. This volume is devoted to the assessment of farm animal welfare.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Welfare indicators