Published in 2022
Article summarising current knowledge on animal emotions and feelings and discussing their implications for the ethics of the way we treat animals.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Consciousness, Societal issues, Memory, Metacognition, Cognitive processes, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2022
Announcement of a book on the slaughter preparation and slaughter of animals for human consumption. After a general chapter on welfare assessment using animal-based indicators, individual chapters are devoted to different species: cattle, fish, horses, pigs, poultry, sheep and non-traditional slaughter species. The book ends with a chapter on mobile slaughter.
Document Types: Scientific work
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Restraint equipment, Human-animal relationships, Weaning, Transport
Published in 2022
Answer to a question on the claims of non-compliance made in a video of the association L214 in an abattoir in Saône-et-Loire and on whether the French Government might be willing to regularise the sanctions observed.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Anxiety, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Fear, Stress
Published in 2022
Answer to a question on the Government's position on the ban on the slaughter of farm animals without prior stunning for religious reasons.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Poultry
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Stress
Published in 2021
Review by EURCAW-Pigs recommending that inspections for piglets at slaughter should focus on animal-based welfare indicators, with particular attention to 4 issues: the appropriateness of the decision to slaughter the animals; the handling and movement of piglets towards the point of slaughter; the slaughter method, preferably using single-step procedures; and the post-mortem inspection of carcasses.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Consciousness, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2022
Technical Instruction specifying changes to the procedures associated with the official monitoring of animal protection in the abattoir at the time of slaughter in France
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Anxiety, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Stress
Published in 2021
Scientific review of the arguments for and against the ritual slaughter of farm animals, authored by an abattoir veterinary inspector.
Document Types: Scientific review
Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Stress
Published in 2021
DG SANTE audit report carried out in France in early 2021, revealing that the effectiveness of official controls in French abattoirs has been significantly improved, as the result of the strengthening of operators' self-monitoring and inspectors' training in particular, but identifying 3 previous recommendations not yet taken into account, and adding two new ones.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Consciousness, Carcass quality, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Stress
Published in 2021
Press release from the Senate presenting the adoption of the bill to combat animal abuse and stressing that the approved text goes further than the initial government proposal in that it allows publication of advertisements for the sale of animals to take place only on websites previously approved by the ministry that have undertaken to respect the requirements it has laid down.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Consciousness, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2021
Scientific Opinion on slaughter processes from a welfare perspective, covering three phases: pre-stunning (including arrival, unloading from the lorry, stalling, and the handling and movement of animals); stunning (including restraint); and bleeding.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories:Goats, Sheep
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Stress
