Published in 2024
Answer from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to a question from a Member of Parliament concerning the role and number of veterinarians in charge of controls in French abattoirs.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Key words:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Transformation
Published in 2024
The shared views of a group of INRAE researchers on the interdisciplinary research needed to support the transition to sustainable livestock production systems. Animal health and welfare are at the heart of these issues.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Societal issues, Environment, Living environment, One Welfare, Human-animal relationship, Farming system
Published in 2024
On December 7, 2023, the European Commission brought forward only its proposed revision of the legislation on the protection of animals during transport, postponing the other long-awaited proposals to revise what is now outdated European animal welfare legislation. A group of MEPs has called on the European Commission to provide a precise timetable for the implementation of the legislative proposals that are still pending (farming, slaughter, labeling).
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Mammals, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry
Keywords:Abandonment, Adoption, Animal building, Animal trade, Identification, Housing, Restraint equipment, Breeding system, Transport, Societal issues
Published in 2024
A summary of the proposed revision of the legislation on the protection of animals during transport is available on the European Parliament website. Information on the background to this legislation and the timetable for the various stages of its revision are provided.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Dogs, Felines, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry
Keywords:Animal trade, Transport
Published in 2024
Scientific article analyzing the behavior of German consumers in a virtual supermarket where shelves featuring products produced according to animal welfare standards were made prominent using visual marketing techniques (footprints on the floor and banners). Marketing influenced the behavior of meat, milk and egg consumers, and sales of animal-welfare compliant products doubled in the compared with the control group.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Key words:Identification, Processing
Published in 2024
The Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union will not be supporting the proposed new European regulation on the protection of animals during transport. An MEP asks the European Commission on its intentions to relaunch this reform project, and on the possibility that the transport of meat transport could be encouraged as an alternative to live animal transport.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Animal trade, Transport
Published in 2024
Scientific article suggesting that active walking in broiler chickens can be a reliable indicator of health and welfare. Its sustained and regular pattern of expression is detectable by automated systems. This smart detection of active walking deficiencies can be carried out both on an individual chicken and on a group of chickens, even at high stocking densities.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Precision breeding, Welfare indicators, Robustness, Behavioural disorders
Published in 2024
Analysis of a survey on the occurrence of various animal welfare violations in German abattoirs. Offences reported and penalized mainly concerned the use of prohibited driving aids, lack of care, and improper restraint, stunning and bleeding. The authors suggest that official veterinarians should carry out closer monitoring of compliance with the legislation for these specific situations and that the training of abattoir staff should be improved.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Key words:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Transformation
Published in 2024
Answer from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to a question from a member of parliament on the conditions under which animals are killed in abattoirs, and the measures the government intends to take to ensure effective controls by veterinary services and compliance with current regulations. The presence of an animal welfare officer in each abattoir must also be confirmed.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Key words:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Transformation
Published in 2024
MASA's response to a question from a French Member of Parliament about animal abuse at the Craon abattoir, despite the Ministry's creation of a national task force in 2021 to increase inspections under the French Abattoir Plan.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Key words:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Transformation
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