Animal category: Sheep

Alternative Practices in Organic Dairy Production and Effects on Animal Behavior, Health, and Welfare

Hannah N. Phillips, Bradley J. Heins

Published in 2022

Scientific review describing organic milk production systems, and the husbandry practices they include that could affect animal welfare, including alternative methods of pain management during calf disbudding and treatment of mastitis in cows as well as management of adverse behaviours during milking.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines

Keywords:Societal issues, Living environment, Livestock systems

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Avis n°90 du CNA – « Nouveaux comportements alimentaires – propositions d’actions pour une alimentation compatible avec des systèmes alimentaires durables

Conseil national de l'alimentation

Published in 2022

Opinion containing, in particular, proposals on animal welfare: farming systems to be displayed on environmental labels; public aid and subsidies to be progressively adjusted in favour of production methods that support the environment, nutritional quality and animal welfare; implementation at European level of measures to protect agricultural and food products from competition from imported products that do not comply with European standards to be defended.

Document Types: Opinions

Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Poultry

Keywords: Societal issues, Breeding and rearing systems

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Animal Welfare Standards in the EU Organic Certification

Alice Di Concetto, Eugénie Duval, Benjamin Lecorps

Published in 2022

A report outlining the revisions to the EU organic certification regulations relating to animal welfare, effective from 2022. They have been extended to include new species, such as rabbits and some fish types, and additional stages of production. The report also discusses the announcement of the "EU Organic Action Plan", which aims to have converted a minimum of 25% of agricultural land to organic farming and a significant increase in organic aquaculture by 2030.

Document Types: Scientific review

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

Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Breeding and rearing systems

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Welfare of farm animals : studying it to improve it

Stéphane Ingrand, Xavier Fernandez

Published in 2022

Scientific study of the impact of research carried out at INRAE over the last 30 years with the aim of improving the welfare of farm animals. This research has led to the implementation of new national and European regulations, and the adoption of new practices and equipment in animal husbandry.

Document Types: Scientific review

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

Keywords:Animal adaptation to the environment, Animal-based measurement, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Enrichment, Welfare indicator, Mutilations, Stress, Farming system

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Affective State Recognition in Livestock - Artificial Intelligence Approaches

Suresh Neethirajan

Published in 2022

Scientific review of innovative methods for collecting data on the emotions of farm animals  that can be used to train artificial intelligence models to classify, quantify, and predict emotional states in pigs and cows at individual and group levels.

Document Types: Scientific review

Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Precision breeding, Human-animal relationships

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Twelve Threats of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) for Animal Welfare

Frank A. M. Tuyttens, Carla F. M. Molento, Said Benaissa

Published in 2022

Scientific review of the potential animal welfare risks posed by precision farming, whether these are direct, involving  machinery and equipment, technical failures or the poor choice of indicators, or indirect, involving the end-user, changes to animal housing or management, or a reduction in the consideration of ethical issues.  It calls for the systematic consideration of opportunities and risks when using PE techniques.

Document Types: Scientific review

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

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Human-animal relationships

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Le bien-être des animaux d’élevage - Améliorer le bien-être des animaux d'élevage

Luc Mounier (coordinator), Xavier Boivin, Cécile Bourguet, Claudia Terlouw

Published in 2022

Announcement of the publication of the 3rd and final volume on farm animal welfare, produced in association with the MOOC of the same name, and coordinated by the VetAgroSup Chaire Bien-Être Animal.

Document Types: Scientific review

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

Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships, Breeding and rearing systems

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European Parliament: Written answer to Question E-001279/22: Restricting the practice of 'halal' by Islamic butchers

Emmanouil Fragkos (ECR). Answer: Executive VP Vestager on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2022

Answer to a question on the sale of halal meat without the knowledge of consumers in the absence of specific labelling, and the restriction this will place on  competition. 

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines

Keywords:Awareness, Pain, Societal issues, Stress

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Meta-analysis and systematic literature review of climate change effects on livestock welfare

J.N. Morgado, F. Santeramo, E. Lamoother small companion animalsa, M.G. Ciliberti, M. Caroprese

Published in 2022

Technical report presenting the results of a meta-analysis on the impact of climate change events (e.g. heat stress) on livestock welfare and productivity and on the effect of heat-control strategies on animal performance.

Document Types: Scientific paper

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

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Living environment, Resilience

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Livestock population in numbers

Eurostat

Published in 2022

News item containing the statistics for herd sizes in EU member countries in 2021: 142 million pigs, 76 million cattle, 60 million sheep and 11 million goats. French herds accounted for 9% of pigs, 23% of cattle, 12% of sheep and 12% of goats in the EU.

Document types:Technical article, Scientific review/ Synthesis

Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines

Keywords: Societal issues

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