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, Well-being indicator, Societal issues, Stress
Published in 2023
Answer to a question concerning the position of the French Ministry of Agriculture on the possibility of parliamentary visits to abbatoirs, livestock farms and other facilities where livestock is kept.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2023
Report by the Animal Welfare Institute following a review of federal food inspection documents produced by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) between 2020 and 2022. It assesses the federal government's oversight of the slaughter of farmed birds in the USA.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Well-being indicator, Human-animal relationship, Stress, Transformation
Published in 2023
Scientific review examining the similarities and differences between halal standards in various Asian and Middle Eastern countries.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Cattle, Dogs, Sheep, Poultry
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2023
Article summarizing recent research on the mental faculties of cattle, sheep, goats and pigs, describing the importance of this work in better addressing the needs of the above species, and explaining why it had not previously been arried out.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines
Keywords:Consciousness, Memory, Metacognition, Personality, Cognitive process, Human-animal relationship
Published in 2023
Answer to a question on whether the European Commission is ready to ban slaughter without stunning and extend this ban to imported meat from animals slaughtered in third countries.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Well-being indicator, Human-animal relationship, Stress
Published in 2023
Summary of a report on investigations carried out at four trout farms in Poland to document typical farming practices on trout farms. After providing an overview of trout farming in the EU, it identifies welfare and health hazards, poor handling techniques, and inefficient and painful slaughter systems. It recommends that regulations should be introduced for the rearing, transport and slaughter of each species of farmed fish, and that research should be encouraged to improve welfare in these species.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Well-being indicator, Human-animal relationship, Transport
Published in 2023
Scientific article on the development of a brain-machine interface to study rats' abilities to voluntarily navigate and direct objects in a virtual reality arena, solely by activating and sustaining appropriate hippocampal representations of remote locations.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Rodents
Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Animal-based measurement, Learning, Consciousness, Brain integration, Living environment, Modeling
Published in 2023
Scientific review of living conditions, behavior and cognition, and the different approaches to welfare improvement for manatees in zoos.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to environment, Adaptation of the environment to animal, Consciousness, Societal issues, Enrichment, Housing, Human-animal relationship, Resilience
Published in 2023
Scientific review of the different stages of slaughtering and their possible impacts on animal stress, welfare and meat quality. It reviews the regulations and technological advances that have led to the development of mobile slaughter units, presents a non-exhaustive list of mobile slaughter units currently in use, and sets out the advantages and disadvantages of these mobile units.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Brain integration, Carcass quality, Stress, Farming system
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