Published in 2023
Answer to a question on the Ministry's plans to encourage alternatives to pig castration and whether it intends to end this practice.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Pain, Societal issues, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system
Published in 2023
Scientific paper developing computer visualization methods for the early detection of tail biting in pigs. The authors use a convolutional neural network to extract spatial data, combined with secondary networks to take account of temporal data.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Societal issues, Mutilation, Stress
Published in 2022
Systematic review of the literature to identify animal-based and management-based indicators that could be influenced by changes in handling procedures for feeder pigs on the day of slaughter. Factors with the highest impact on pig welfare were the calmness of operators when handling animals, reduction of environmental noise and transport time, and control of stunning effectiveness.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2022
Report describing the current status of U.S. policies related to practices that may impact farm animal welfare, the extent of their implementation and geographic coverage, and the legal environment and challenges these policies have faced.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2022
Scientific article identifying 6 named categories and one general category of risk factors for lesions on the faces of piglets and on sow teats when no piglet teeth resection has been carried out.They are: presence or absence of teeth resection; housing system; litter size; piglet management; environmental enrichment; milk production; and other piglet management practices.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Pain, Enrichment, Lactation, Housing, Stress
Published in 2022
Report of the 2022 meeting which dealt with the revision of the European animal welfare regulations, the associated EFSA opinions with a presentation of those published in 2022 and a progress report on those in progress, and with the work of the expert subgroup for animal welfare and the subgroup on national contact points.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Bovines, Porcines, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Consciousness, Enrichment, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system, Transport, Pain
Published in 2022
Scientific paper showing that tail lesions are present in 2/3 of a group of pre-finishing piglets, that they are usually minor and that the majority of piglets both bite and are bitten. The piglets that bite most are those with the highest levels of exploratory behaviour.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Stress
Published in 2022
Answer to a question on why, given that several European Union member countries have banned ritual slaughter involving the cutting of the throats of live of animals for human consumption, such bans should be deemed compatible with European law in some countries but not in France.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Stress
Published in 2022
Scientific review analyzing how narrative discourse and the presentation of arguments contribute to the social construction of representations of farm animal welfare in the scientific community. The authors examine the scientific literature and analyse it according to 5 narrative points of view. Depending on the point of view, the reasons given for why farmed animals should lead decent lives are different.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues
Published in 2022
Scholarly article that analyzes the positive role of international cooperation, facilitated by the Council of Europe, in the adoption of European legislation on farm-animal welfare. It sets out the limitations of these international legal tools in providing adequate regulation of market forces and proposes legal remedies to improve the treatement and welfare of animals where past international efforts have failed.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Fish, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues
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