Species : Multiple species

Synthesis of different views on the moral status of animals, their "fundamental rights" and the relationship between fundamental rights and legal personhood.

Answer from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to a member of parliament asking the State to grant financial help for animal shelters in the form of subsidies or tax benefits, for example by lowering employer contributions for employees.

Report on a survey carried out in Denmark in 2023 to gather information on the national fish welfare system for aquaculture. The Danish authorities take the view that current scientific knowledge is not sufficient to serve as a basis for the creation of a legislative framework for the welfare of farmed fish.

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.

Answer to a question from a Member of Parliament asking the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty about the precise assessment of the improvements that the law on the abandonment of pets has been able to bring about and the concrete measures that the Government is planning to take in order to curb these abandonments and encourage animal welfare.

The shared views of a group of INRAE researchers on the interdisciplinary research needed to support the transition to sustainable livestock production systems. Animal health and welfare are at the heart of these issues.

On December 7, 2023, the European Commission brought forward only its proposed revision of the legislation on the protection of animals during transport, postponing the other long-awaited proposals to revise what is now outdated European animal welfare legislation. A group of MEPs has called on the European Commission to provide a precise timetable for the implementation of the legislative proposals that are still pending (farming, slaughter, labelling).

A summary of the proposed revision of the legislation on the protection of animals during transport is available on the European Parliament website. Information on the background to this legislation and the timetable for the various stages of its revision are provided.

The Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union will not be supporting the proposed new European regulation on the protection of animals during transport. An MEP asks the European Commission on its intentions to relaunch this reform project, and on the possibility that the transport of meat transport could be encouraged as an alternative to live animal transport.

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.