Renouvellement de la convention-cadre du Centre national de référence pour le bien-être animal
Published in 2023
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:All subjects
Animal category: All animals
Epigenetic biomarkers for animal welfare monitoring
Published in 2023
Scientific review describing animal DNA methylation patterns and methods for their analysis, an overview of the molecular and biological basis for the development of epigenetic biomarkers in veterinary science, and their potential use in animal welfare monitoring.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Welfare indicators
Bien-être animal… parlons plutôt du bien-être des animaux
Published in 2022
Article reviewing the history of animal welfare definitions since the 1960s, and supporting the idea that it relates to individuals and is based on an animal's feelings and experiences.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Adaptation of the environment to the animal , Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships, Livestock farming system
Editorial: Emotions and emotional interplay within and between species: A "one welfare" perspective
Published in 2022
Editorial, summarizing the definition of emotions, their different components (physiological, behavioral and subjective, related to the feeling and experience of the individual), the importance of social interactions in the emergence and modulation of emotions, new methods for studying animal emotions and future research.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
Entre contrainte et ressource : la régionalisation du Bien-être animal comme opportunité politique
Published in 2022
Scientific review examining the influence of the Belgian political context on the activity of the animalist movement in that country, through the lens of two major political events: the 1986 creation and subsequent development of the Animal Welfare Council and the devolution of responsibility for animal welfare to the country's regions in 2014.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
St. Martin's Act at 200 - Reflecting on the First Animal Welfare Law
Published in 2022
Article recalling the actions of British parliamentarian Richard Martin, who passed the world's first democratic animal welfare law in 1822, and reviewing the progress and limitations of animal welfare legislation to date, along with the challenges to come.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
The 2020 Five Domains Model: Including Human-Animal Interactions in Assessments of Animal Welfare
Published in 2020
Scientific review on the concept of the 5 domains. The first 3 domains (food, physical environment and health) concern factors that can affect an organism's internal stability, and lead to so-called "survival-critical" affects, resulting in genetically-integrated behavioral responses. The 4th domain (behavioral interactions), generates "situation-related" affects, resulting in conscious behavioral choices. All of these contribute to the 5th domain, ie the mental state of the animals.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Animal-based measurements,Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Measuring emotional processes in animals: the utility of a cognitive approach
Published in 2005
Scientific review of emotions in animals, and how to measure them, in particular cognitive and subjective aspects (positive and negative)
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Memory, Human-animal relationships
Animal Welfare and Resistance to Disease: Interaction of Affective States and the Immune System
Published in 2022
A perspective article reviewing the scientific literature on the links between the brain, the gut microbiome, immunity and animal welfare. It highlights the importance of good welfare as a way to prevent disease, and sets out the mechanisms by which high levels of welfare can directly affect disease resistance.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Risk management, Human-animal relationships, Pathogen transfer
Animal Welfare Underenforcement as a Rule of Law Problem
Published in 2022
A scientific article examining the way in which animal welfare regulations are enforced. It concludes that they are under-enforced, and that this poses a more general problem in that it undermines the rule of law
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
