Published in 2022
Article recalling the actions of British parliamentarian Richard Martin, who passed the world's first democratic animal welfare law in 1822, and reviewing the progress and limitations of animal welfare legislation to date, along with the challenges to come.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2022
Article comparing welfare criteria for sows housed in free-range farrowing crates and conventional farrowing crates. It shows that the greater freedom of movement provided by free-range farrowing crates throughout lactation can improve locomotor health and reduce stress levels in sows.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Housing, Societal issues
Published in 2022
Dossier describing the German voluntary welfare initiative in pig farming, "Initiative Tierwohl", containing interviews with farmers who have signed up to it, along with half their fellow farmers. Although the initiative is appreciated by consumers, the public is still concerned over meat prices, a fact that restricts farmers' room for manoeuver in working to to improve animal welfare.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Housing, Societal issues
Published in 2022
Scientific review describing organic milk production systems, and the husbandry practices they include that could affect animal welfare, including alternative methods of pain management during calf disbudding and treatment of mastitis in cows as well as management of adverse behaviours during milking.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines
Keywords:Societal issues, Living environment, Livestock farming system
Published in 2022
A scientific review, analyzing how tools for the assessment of equine welfare, quality of life and equine perceptions of quality of life, define and operationalize these concepts. It discusses how appropriate these tools are to the assessment of quality of life as part of end-of-life decision-making for chronically-ill or elderly horses.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Societal issues, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2022
Guide describing good practices in dealing with a sick animal and observing possible warning signs for animal welfare issues in a herd, animal welfare visits, how animal welfare can be integrated to a health visit, providing support for a shift towards increased animal welfare measures. It also looks closely at pain management, making the choice whether to transport an animal or slaughter it on site, good end-of-life practices, and how to discuss the longevity of dairy cows with farmers.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Bovines
Key word: Human-animal relationships, Living environment, Stress,Welfare indicators
Published in 2022
Scientific paper showing that machine learning can reveal the cognitive capacity in pet dogs to distinguish between unwilling/unable motivational behaviours in humans: analysis based on 3D-tracking through machine learning reveals that dogs distinguish between similar actions (ie not giving them food) on the basis of human intentionality (being unable/not wanting to feed them).
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Canine
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Modelling, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2022
Opinion containing, in particular, proposals on animal welfare: farming systems to be displayed on environmental labels; public aid and subsidies to be progressively adjusted in favour of production methods that support the environment, nutritional quality and animal welfare; implementation at European level of measures to protect agricultural and food products from competition from imported products that do not comply with European standards to be defended.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues, Livestock farming system
Published in 2022
Answer to a question about the European Commission's position on anti-bark and training collars urging it to ban them.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Canine
Keywords:Pain, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2022
CIWF survey conducted on 16 European pig farms, revealing living conditions that prevent the expression of the animals' natural behaviours. CIWF asks the French Minister of Agriculture to support the legislative changes announced by the European Commission to ban cage farming and improve animal welfare conditions.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Housing, Maternity, Living environment, Stress, Livestock farming system, Societal issues
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