Keyword: Mutilation

Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n°12294 : Castration à vif et claquage des porcelets

Question: Béatrice Roullaud (Rassemblement National - Seine-et-Marne). Answer: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.

Published in 2024

Answer from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to a question on the total ban on live castration and piglet slapping, a technique that consists of killing young animals deemed too weak by beating them against a wall.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Castration, Carcass quality, Euthanasia, Pain, Mistreatment, Mutilation, Sterilization

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Pain Mitigation Strategies for Disbudding in Goat Kids

Preet Singh, Dinakaran Venkatachalam, Kavitha Kongara, Paul Chambers

Published in 2024

Scientific synthesis of pain-reduction strategies for kids during disbudding on the farm. The authors conclude that current best practice for reducing pain during disbudding would be sedation/analgesia with an alpha-2 agonist, placement of a two-point cornual nerve block, followed by an NSAID for postoperative pain.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Caprines

Keywords: Pain, Mutilation

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The Industry Benchmark on Decapod Crustacean Welfare

Crustacean Compassion

Published in 2024

Snapshot 2023 report which ranks the UK's leading seafood retailers, producers, processors and wholesalers according to the welfare standards they apply to decapod crustaceans.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Arthropods

Key words:Animal trade, Pain, Mutilation

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Pain Assessment in Goat Kids: Focus on Disbudding

Kavitha Kongara, Preet Singh, Dinakaran Venkatachalam, John Paul Chambers

Published in 2023

Scientific review of pain assessment in kids after disbudding, using physiological and behavioral measures

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Caprines

Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Pain, Societal issues, Mutilations, Human-animal relationship, Stress

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European Parliament: Written answer to Question E-002825/2023: A call to ban debeaking in Europe

Aurélia Beigneux (ID). Reply: Mrs Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2023

Answer to a question on the measures the European Commission intends to take to limit or even ban the debeaking of laying hens and, more generally, to better control intensive farming and encourage animal welfare on farms.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Mutilation, Farming system

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The importance of slaughterhouses in monitoring the occurrence of tail biting in pigs - Review

M. Svoboda, N. Hodkovicova, A. Siwicki, W. Szweda

Published in 2023

Scientific review of factors influencing the incidence of tail biting on pig farms and of prevention strategies, looking at tail docking, the negative effects of tail biting in pigs, the advantages and disadvantages of examining tail lesions in abattoirs, and setting out a methodical procedure for assessing tail lesions.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Aggression, Aggressivity, Pain, Societal issues, Mutilations, Farming system

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European Parliament: written answer to question E-002695/23: The continued practice of tail docking in Europe

Question: Auélia Beigneux (ID). Answer: Mrs Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2023

Answer to a question on how the European Commission intends to enforce the 1991 directive on the protection of pigs, with regard to tail docking in particular, and whether it has put measures in place to help farmers conform with the regulations. 

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Pain, Mutilations, Human-animal relationship, Societal issues, Stress

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National Organic Program (NOP); Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards

Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.

Published in 2023

USDA's Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards (OLPS) final rule, which reinforces animal welfare measures for organic livestock and poultry and promotes their natural behaviors. The standards cover outdoor space, indoor and outdoor living conditions, poultry stocking density, preventive health practices, mutilation and euthanasia, transportation, handling and slaughter.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Cattle, Poultry

Keywords: Euthanasia, Human-animal relationship, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation,Societal issues, Transport, Welfare  indicators

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European Parliament: Written answer to Question E-002480/2023: Ending the systematic docking of pigs

Question: Annika Bruna (ID). Answer: Mrs Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

Published in 2023

Answer to a question on whether the European Commission is prepared to better regulate living conditions in factory pig farms, so that tail docking becomes the exception.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Pain, Enrichment, Human-animal relationship, Mutilation, Societal issues, Stress

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Welfare of ducks, geese and quail on farm

EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Animal Welfare (AHAW Panel), Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Julio Alvarez, Dominique Joseph Bicout, Paolo Calistri, Elisabetta Canali, Julian Ashley Drewe, Bruno Garin-Bastuji, Jose Luis Gonzales Rojas, Christian Gortázar Schmidt, Mette Herskin, Virginie Michel, Miguel Ángel Miranda Chueca, Barbara Padalino, Paolo Pasquali, Helen Clare Roberts, Hans Spoolder, Karl Stahl, Antonio Velarde, Arvo Viltrop and Christoph Winckler

Published in 2023

Scientific opinion identifying the most common farming systems in the European Union for each species and category of animal. It describes and assesses the welfare consequences for each species of the following factors: restriction of movement, injury, group stress, inability to adopt comfort behavior, inability to adopt exploratory or foraging behavior and inability to express maternal behavior. It provides recommendations on how to predict negative welfare consequences using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Animal adaptation, Animal-based measurements,Animal environmentadaptation, Consciousness, Pain, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock systems

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