Veille Droit Animal
Published in 2024
Creation of a website listing animal protection legislation and regulations at European and French level
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:All subjects
Animal category: All animals
Animal welfare as the basis of One Health: A UN convention on animal welfare, health, and protection poses a realistic solution to improved animal welfare and human health
Published in 2024
Scientific paper arguing that animal welfare should be included in the work of the OHHLEP (One Health High Level Expert Panel), and a technical working group should be created to finalize a UN convention on the issue resembling the 2018 UN Convention on Animal Health and Protection (UNCAHP). A transdisciplinary approach will be required, encompassing ethical, cultural, social, religious, political, economic and scientific aspects. In addition to veterinarians, experts from other disciplines linked to One Health will need to be consulted, such as specialized lawyers and jurists, representatives of animal rights movements, along withl as specialists in ethicseconomics.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: One Welfare,Societal issues
Are regulations addressing farm animal welfare issues during live transportation fit for purpose? A multi-country jurisdictional check
Published in 2024
Scientific article examining the effectiveness of animal welfare regulations on transport in five English-speaking Western jurisdictions. The study's findings show that the regulations fail to achieve the objective of protecting livestock during transport. The article identifies future policy directions that would have greater likelihood of success in meeting this objective.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Societal issues, Transport
Pathways towards lower emissions - A global assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation options from livestock agrifood systems
Published in 2024
FAO prospective study on livestock-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are likely to increase as a result of growing global demand for animal products. The study assesses the GHG emission reduction potential of various livestock farming techniques.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Environment, Pollution
Bien-être animal : une préoccupation croissante
Published in 2023
Updated version of Vie Publique's animal welfare dossier, with a recap of French and European legislation and examples of animal welfare initiatives in countries elsewhere in the world. It concludes with a look at the social issues involved.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
European Parliament: written answer to priority question P-003061/23: Commission, where is the promised legislation on animal welfare ?
Published in 2024
Answer to a question on the postponement of the planned revision of European animal welfare regulations and of the possible ban on the caging of farm animals promised by the European Commission in response to the End the Cage Age European citizen's initiative.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Livestock buildings, Housing, Livestock farming system
Multi-animal 3D social pose estimation, identification and behaviour embedding with a few-shot learning framework
Published in 2024
Scientific article presenting a computer tool for quantifying subtle animal social behaviors in fields such as neuroscience and ecology
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Precision farming, Socialization
European Parliament: written answer to question E-002692/2023 : Will the revision of animal welfare legislation occur under this mandate?
Published in 2023
Answer to a question on the European Commission's intentions concerning the completion of the reform of EU animal welfare regulations that has now been postponed until after the 2024 European elections.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
Animal welfare as a public good
Published in 2023
Article developing a model of animal consumption based on consumer altruism. According to this model, at the point where the market achieves equilibrium, quality is not high enough and the quantity of animals whose lives are not worth living is too high.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Societal issues, Modelling, One Welfare, Human-animal relationships, livestock farming system
Animals and Social Welfare - Social Choice and Welfare, Forthcoming
Published in 2023
Article setting out a framework for the assessment of the social benefits of animal-related policies in terms of both animal and human welfare. The framework is then used to evaluate 20 policy proposals concerning animals which, although strongly supported by the French public, prove to have widely varying impacts on animal welfare. It reveals that willingness to pay is a poor indicator of the actual impact of these policies on animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Societal issues, One Welfare, Human-animal relationships
