Published in 2022
Report by Res Publica outlining proposals to enable animal welfare to be taken into account in international trade, to UK animal food products, which are subject to high animal welfare standards that result in additional costs, from being penalised internationally.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues
Published in 2022
Scientific review on the use of precision breeding techniques to improve the health, welfare and production of farm animals. It emphasizes the importance of affordable, reliable and easy-to-use equipment, providing data that reflect - adequately and in real time - different aspects of animal welfare status within the herd.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2022
Dossier describing the German voluntary welfare initiative in pig farming, "Initiative Tierwohl", containing interviews with farmers who have signed up to it, along with half their fellow farmers. Although the initiative is appreciated by consumers, the public is still concerned over meat prices, a fact that restricts farmers' room for manoeuver in working to to improve animal welfare.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Housing, Societal issues
Published in 2022
Opinion containing, in particular, proposals on animal welfare: farming systems to be displayed on environmental labels; public aid and subsidies to be progressively adjusted in favour of production methods that support the environment, nutritional quality and animal welfare; implementation at European level of measures to protect agricultural and food products from competition from imported products that do not comply with European standards to be defended.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues, Livestock farming system
Published in 2022
Study identifying 5 consumer profiles based on their behaviours in relation to animal-welfare labelling on pork and chicken packaging. The aim of the study is to better understand what determines their purchasing decisions in order to make adjustments to production practices in the food chain.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2022
Answer to a question on whether a positive list of wild animal species allowed as pets is to be established and, if so, whether monkeys will be excluded from the list due to their special characteristics.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Wildlife population dynamics, Societal issues, Living environment, Human-animal relationships,Wildlife
Published in 2022
News item containing the statistics for herd sizes in EU member countries in 2021: 142 million pigs, 76 million cattle, 60 million sheep and 11 million goats. French herds accounted for 9% of pigs, 23% of cattle, 12% of sheep and 12% of goats in the EU.
Document types:Technical paper, Scientific review
Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines
Keywords: Societal issues
Published in 2022
Study assessing the overall positive impact of the CAP on improving animal welfare and reducing the use of antimicrobials in livestock production. It notes, however, the lack of performance indicators and recommends that more widespread measures should be implemented, with a common European methodology, that indicators adequate to the task should be developed and that mandatory labelling should be extended to more livestock sectors.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Antibiotic resistance, Environment, Societal issues, Welfare indicators
Published in 2022
Answer to a question on the possible funds that the Commission plans to grant to Member States to set up shelters or sanctuaries adapted to the needs of wild animals from travelling circuses at the point when the planned total bans come into force in these countries.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Living environment, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2022
Answer to a question on the measures that the French Minister of Agriculture and Food intends to take to bring an end to the denigration to which the senator believes the foie gras industry is subjected.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Force-feeding, Human-animal relationships,Societal issues
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