Animal category: Porcines

Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n° 12158 : Mise en place d’un droit de visite parlementaire dans les abattoirs

Karine Lebon (Gauche démocrate et républicaine - NUPES - Réunion). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty

Published in 2023

Answer to a question concerning the position of the French Ministry of Agriculture on the possibility of parliamentary visits to abbatoirs, livestock farms and other facilities where livestock is kept.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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Lateralised Behavioural Responses in Livestock to Environmental Stressors: Implications for Using Infrared Thermography to Assess Welfare Conditions

Amira A. Goma, Jashim Uddin, Emily Kieson

Published in 2023

Scientific review of the lateralized behavioral responses of farm animals to environmental stressors, and the association between these responses and the infrared temperature of the external body surfaces concerned, with the aim of improving the use of non-invasive measures in the assessment of animal welfare conditions.

Document Types: Scientific review

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

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Living environment

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Cognitive tasks as measures of pig welfare: a systematic review

Thomas Ede, Thomas D. Parsons

Published in 2023

Systematic review of the literature to assess the frequency of use and variety in cognitive approaches to the assessment of pig welfare. To this end, it quantifies the different cognitive tasks used and welfare interventions studied in the selected articles, and assesses the frequency with which cognitive task results are in line with treatment effects.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Human-animal relationships, Welfare indicators

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A data dump of suffering - The EU's long-distance trade in farm animals exposed

CIWF and Eurogroup for Animals

Published in 2023

Report based on consultation of data from TRACES, the European Commission's online management tool for the notification, certification and control of the trade in live animals and animal products. It reveals discrepancies in the keeping of registers, recorded and actual journey times, the use of, and changes to, assembly centres, destinations recorded as final that are not, waiting times in ports, and the conditions under which calves are transported.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Key word: Human-animal relationship,Societal issues, Transport

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Conditions d’exercice des agents d’inspection vétérinaire affectés en abattoirs, et conséquences potentielles sur la qualité de l’inspection

CGAAER

Published in 2023

Report from France's CGAAER on the physical and managerial working conditions of nearly 1,800 veterinary abattoir inspectors in France, and on the impact of these working conditions on the quality of inspections.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Keywords: Human-animal relationship, Welfare indicators,Societal issues, Transformation, Stress

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Final Report of an Audit of Romania carried out from 3 May to 28 November 2022 in order to Evaluate Animal Welfare Controls during Transport by Livestock Vessel to non-EU Countries

DG SANTE, European Commission

Published in 2023

Audit report identifying both improvements and weaknesses in the system set up to monitor the welfare of animals transported by sea from Romania to third countries. It contains recommendations to the competent authorities concerning the licencing of transporters, pre-loading inspections of livestock vessels, and dealing with notifications of non-compliance in a timely way.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

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

Key word: Human-animal relationship,Societal issues, Transport

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Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Protection of Animals during Transport and related Operations, amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005

DG SANTE, European Commission

Published in 2023

Proposal to revise the European regulation on the transport of live animals in such a way as to reduce the animal welfare impacts of long journeys and repeated unloading and reloading, increase the space per animal during transport, improve transport conditions for vulnerable animals  avoid exposing animals to extreme temperatures, facilitate the application of EU rules on animal welfare, and better protect animals exported to third countries and cats and dogs transported as part of an economic activity.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Cattle, Dogs, Goats, Equines, Felines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Poultry

Key words: One Welfare, Human-animal relationship, Transport,Societal issues

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Executive Summary of the Impact Assessment Report Accompanying the document Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of animals during transport and related operations, amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005

DG SANTE, European Commission

Published in 2023

Impact assessment setting out the animal welfare implications of the legislative proposal on the transport of live animals. The impacts addressed are economic, social and environmental.

Document Types: Opinions

Animal categories:Cattle, Dogs, Goats, Equines, Felines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Poultry

Key words: One Welfare, Human-animal relationship, Transport,Societal issues

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The importance of slaughterhouses in monitoring the occurrence of tail biting in pigs - Review

M. Svoboda, N. Hodkovicova, A. Siwicki, W. Szweda

Published in 2023

Scientific review of factors influencing the incidence of tail biting on pig farms and of prevention strategies, looking at tail docking, the negative effects of tail biting in pigs, the advantages and disadvantages of examining tail lesions in abattoirs, and setting out a methodical procedure for assessing tail lesions.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Aggression, Aggressivity, Pain, Societal issues, Mutilations, Farming system

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Willingness to Pay a Higher Price for Pork Obtained Using Animal-Friendly Raising Techniques: A Consumers' Opinion Survey

Carlo Giannetto, Vito Biondi, Annalisa Previti, Angelina De Pascale, Salvatore Monti, Angela Alibrandi, Agata Zirilli, Maurizio Lanfranchi, Michela Pugliese, Annamaria Passantino

Published in 2023

Scientific article examining the animal welfare habits of pork consumers, showing that almost half are willing to pay more for meat from farms that implement animal welfare standards.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships

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