Animal category: Goats

Monetizing Animal Welfare Impacts for Benefit-Cost Analysis

Budolfson Mark, Espinosa Romain, Fischer Bob, Treich Nicolas

Published in 2024

Article proposing an analytical tool that sites the impacts of public policy on animal welfare within the same framework as impacts on human welfare, the environment and the economy. This would enable the advantages and disadvantages of public policies to be expressed both globally and more accurately, and would make it possible to compare different impacts. To this end, the authors propose a method for monetizing animal welfare that expresses the intrinsic value of impacts on animal welfare in monetary terms.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Wildlife, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry

Keywords:Biodiversity, Environment, Risk management, Population management, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Modelling, One Welfare,  Livestock farming system, Societal issues

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The Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare - 2023 Report

Nicky Amos, Dr Nathan Rhys Williams MRCVS and Jessica Doten Axberg

Published in 2024

Report from Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW), on the ways that major global food companies take animal welfare into account. While 95% of them recognize the importance of animal welfare (versus 79% in 2012), 93% received the lowest scores. Three companies stood out positively.

Document Types: Technical review

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

Keywords:Livestock buildings, Animal trade, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Education, Housing, Abuse, Restraint equipment, Mutilation, Livestock farming system, Pain, Stress, Societal issues, Transport

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Colloque BOW : Le bâtiment d’élevage, point de rencontre entre l’homme et l’animal

Yannick Ramonet, Frédéric Kergourlay, Vanessa Lollivier

Published in 2024

Conference proceedings from the BOW symposium co-organized by the BATICE and One Welfare RMTs on February 14 and 15, 2024 in Rennes.

Document Types: Technical review

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

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal,Animal-based measurements, Livestock buildings, Aggression, Aggressiveness, Enrichment, Housing, One Welfare, Human-animal relationships, Welfare indicators, Behavioural disorders, Education, Precision farming, Societal issues, Livestock housing, Livestock farming system

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Farm animals: a plea for shelters

Anne Judas

Published in 2024

In this article, the Director of OABA (Œuvre d'Assistance aux Bêtes d'Abattoirs) explains why the number of abandoned animals (goats, horses and cattle) taken in by the association has risen in recent years.

Document types: Technical Paper

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

Keywords:Abandonment, Adoption

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Faciliter l’engagement serein des éleveurs dans une démarche de bien-être animal

LIT Ouesterel

Published in 2024

To promote dialogue between livestock farming and society, LIT Ouesterel has been running one project since 2021 and another starting in 2024, intended to  encourage livestock farmers to commit themselves to a progress approach. The second seeks to do so via actions at producer organization level.

Document types: Technical Paper

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

Keywords:Societal issues, One Welfare, Livestock farming system

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Quelles sont les quatre principales représentations de l’agriculture dans la société française ?

Valérie Godement

Published in 2024

Study by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty's Center for Studies and Forecasting, intended to feed into public policy-making and describing the four main representations of agriculture and farmers seen in French society today: traditional family farming, large-scale industrial farming, farmers under pressure to scale up, and small farms that just scrape a living.The study takes into account three current debates that impact these representations of agriculture: 'agribashing', use of pesticides and animal welfare.

Document types: Technical Paper

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

Keywords:Livestock buildings, Living environment, One Welfare,  Livestock farming system

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Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n°15271 : Contrôle des abattoirs

Question: Jorys Bovet (Rassemblement National - Allier). Answer: French 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 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

Keywords:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Processing

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Animal board invited review: Improving animal health and welfare in the transition of livestock farming systems: Towards social acceptability and sustainability

C. Ducrot, M.B. Barrio, A. Boissy, F. Charrier, S. Even, P. Mormède, S. Petit, M.-H. Pinard-van der laan, F. Schelcher, F. Casabianca, A. Ducos, G. Foucras, R. Guatteo, J.-L. Peyraud, M. Vayssier-Taussat, P. Veysset, N.C. Friggens, X. Fernandez

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 relationships, Livestock farming system

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Pain Mitigation Strategies for Disbudding in Goat Kids

Preet Singh, Dinakaran Venkatachalam, Kavitha Kongara, Paul Chambers

Published in 2024

Scientific synthesis of pain-reduction strategies for kids during disbudding on the farm. The authors conclude that current good practice to reduce pain during disbudding would be the use of sedation/analgesia with an alpha-2 agonist and 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

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European Parliament: Written answer to Question E-003407/23: Time spent on the revision of EU animal welfare legislation

Question: Nikolaj Villumsen (The Left). Answer: Mrs Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2024

Answer to a question on how long it has taken the Commission and EFSA to prepare the revision of European legislation concerning the "End the Cage Age", 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 buildings, Housing, Societal issues, Restraint equipment, livestock farming system

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