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
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
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
Published in 2024
MASA's response to a question from a French Member of Parliament about the abuse suffered by animals in certain abattoirs in Mayenne, despite the creation by the Ministry in 2021 of a national inspection task force to increase monitoring as part of the French Abattoir Plan.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Bovines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Key words:Pain, Euthanasia, Abuse, Mutilation, Transformation
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
Report from France's CGAAER on the physical and managerial working conditions of nearly 1,800 veterinary abattoir inspectors in France, and on the impact of these working conditions on the quality of inspections.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Human-animal relationship, Welfare indicators,Societal issues, Transformation, Stress
Published in 2021
A scientific paper that uses data from UK abattoir broiler meat inspection records to highlight relationships between different conditions leading to condemnation of batches that would be useful for monitoring animal health and welfare. It highlights relationships that suggest the presence of syndromes in certain months of the year, potentially providing a basis on which to identify surveillance indicators for broiler producers to use.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Carcass quality, Processing
Published in 2021
Answer to a parliamentary question on the government's support measures for France's first mobile abattoir project, and whether the recovery plan could help the development of this new slaughtering method.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines
Keywords:Awareness, Pain, Carcass quality, Societal issues, Processing
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