Published in 2025
EFSA opinion assessing the risks to beef cattle welfare associated with the environment, rearing practices and mutilation. It proposes concrete recommendations (space, feeding, enrichment, ABM in slaughterhouses). Emphasis is placed on pain prevention, the social stability of animals, and improved stabling conditions and access to the outdoors.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Bovines
Published in 2025
Recent scientific opinion from the EFSA, identifying the main welfare risks to animals bred for their fur (mink, foxes, raccoon dogs, chinchillas), which are mainly associated with lives spent in cages without enrichment, resulting in restricted movement, stress and behavioral disorders.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Mammals
Published in 2025
Article looking at how WHOA's approach to animal welfare has changed, grouping the changes into three areas: acceptance of animal welfare as a topic in its own right, linked to but distinct from animal health; the broadening of its scope to cover all categories of domestic and wild animals; and the increased contextualization of animal welfare to reflect the specific attitudes and needs of different regions of the globe.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Societal issues
Published in 2025
New EFSA Opinion on the welfare of horses during killing for purposes other than human consumption, whether indivudally or on a large scale. The Opinion details three phases: pre-stunning, stunning and bleeding. It identifies potential hazards and describes stunning and killing methods (captive bolt, firearm, lethal injection). Potential risks, preventive measures and animal welfare measurement criteria are described, along with practices deemed unacceptable on welfare.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Anxiety, Consciousness, Pain, Brain integration, Fear, Stress
Published in 2025
New EFSA opinion on the welfare of horses at slaughter for human consumption. The opinion details three phases: pre-stunning, stunning and bleeding. It identifies potential hazards and describes stunning and killing methods (captive bolt, firearm, lethal injection), and proposes measures to assess animal welfare consequences. Practices deemed unacceptable on welfare grounds are also listed.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Anxiety, Consciousness, Pain, Brain integration, Fear, Stress
Published in 2024
EFSA opinion assessing the suitability of high expansion foam in container as a new stunning and killing method for poultry and pigs. It concludes that, for laying hens and broilers and for pigs weighing between 15 and 41 kg, this is an effective and animal-friendly alternative method, subject to compliance with the specified technical conditions and procedures, and to staff training.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Porcines, Poultry
Key words:Consciousness, Pain, Euthanasia, Welfare indicators, Stress
Published in 2024
Study presenting the four main representations of agriculture and farming in French society today: traditional family farming, large-scale industrial farming, farmers under pressure to expand, and small farmers who just get by.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Societal issues, Pollution, Human-animal relationship, Farming system
Published in 2024
Synthesis of different views on the moral status of animals, their "fundamental rights" and the relationship between fundamental rights and legal personhood.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Societal issues
Published in 2023
Report on technologies with the potential to help end the culling of newly hatched male chicks. It identifies the possible risks to welfare posed by their use, and puts forward alternative ideas and views on the matter.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Poultry
Key words:Consciousness, Pain, Euthanasia, Welfare indicators, Societal issues, Stress
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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