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
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
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, Societal issues, Environment, Population management, One Welfare, Pollution, livestock farming system
Published in 2024
Article exploring 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
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,Societal issues, livestock farming system
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 measurements, Precision farming
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:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2023
Answer to a question concerning the measures taken to control the conditions under which animals are transported over long distances and those that France intends to put forward to improve these conditions when the European regulation on the subject undegoes revision.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Primates, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Stress, Transport
Published in 2023
Scientific review of pain assessment in kids after disbudding, using physiological and behavioral measures
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Caprines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Pain, Societal issues, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress
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