Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) on a request from the Commission related to the welfare of animals during transport

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doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2004.44

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“…Welfare topics which received the most attention in the compiled literature offer insight into research priorities in China, however topics that received the little attention offer opportunities for future research and development. One of these areas is pre-slaughter stunning, the pre-slaughter process applied to individual animals to induce unconsciousness and insensibility, so that slaughter can be performed without fear, anxiety, pain, suffering or distress [46]. While limited Chinese animal welfare literature on stunning was discovered in this review (pigs n = 8; chickens n = 4), it has been identified by Chinese stakeholders as an area of potential development in China.…”

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Farm Animal Welfare Science in China—A Bibliometric Review of Chinese Literature

Sinclair

Descovich

Phillips

2020

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Farm animal welfare in the People’s Republic of China (henceforth, China) is not well represented in the international scientific literature. This may lead researchers, advocates and those with agricultural partnerships in China to assume that animal welfare is not a field of interest there. This study reports a literature review of published pig and poultry welfare research in China using Chinese scientific databases. We aimed to determine which areas of welfare research have recently received academic attention in China. From an understanding of areas being studied, current and emerging priority areas for research could be determined. This study identified 854 academic publications citing pig or chicken welfare in China published between 2008 and 2018. Within these publications, two broader areas of significant attention were addressed in the context of animal welfare; yield and product quality, such as feeding, biosecurity and antimicrobial resistance, including immunity and second, the relationship of animal welfare with the Chinese philosophy of ‘ecological agriculture.’ Holistic systems were advocated to maximize sustainability and maintain a healthy environment, such as the creation of fermented bedding for pigs. Environmental enrichment was also a focus of attention, demonstrating an interest in animals’ mental welfare, which was usually conjectured from their behavior. Few of the articles were translated into English or other languages and therefore most were largely unavailable to the English-speaking global scientific community. This presents an opportunity to provide relevant animal welfare knowledge, which could improve animal welfare globally. China is a global animal trade leader and the home of the largest agricultural industries in the world. An increase in collaboration on animal welfare research and understanding of the advancements that have been made in China, as reviewed in this manuscript, could advance farm animal welfare from a global perspective.

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Farm Animal Welfare Science in China—A Bibliometric Review of Chinese Literature

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Descovich

Phillips

2020

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“…The TNZ for sheep is reported to be between 12 and 27 °C by Marai et al [ 14 ], but other authors suggest lower values (i.e., 5–25 °C) [ 15 , 16 , 17 ]. The UCT describes the point above which an animal must significantly increase their use of physiological mechanisms to prevent a rise in body temperature above normal and consequently travelling above UCT may severely compromise animal welfare [ 18 ]. If the coping mechanisms to maintain homeothermy are unsuccessful, the increase of body temperature leads to acute heat stress that, if prolonged, can result in heat stroke and death.…”

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Effects of Reduced Space Allowance and Heat Stress on Behavior and Eye Temperature in Unweaned Lambs: A Pilot Study

Menchetti

Costa

Zappaterra

et al. 2021

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Current European animal transportation law contains only a few and vague indications concerning how to move lambs of less than 26 kg. Moreover, little information is available in the literature about factors affecting these lambs’ welfare. We investigated the effect of space allowance and ambient temperature on the welfare of unweaned Lacaune lambs during a simulation of long-distance transportation (19 h). Three groups of lambs (N = 130) were housed in equally sized pens for 19 h, Control (C; n = 39; 0.27 m2 per head), Low Space Allowance (LSA; n = 52; 0.20 m2 per head), and Heat Stress (HS; n = 39; 0.27 m2 per head) groups. LSA lambs had lower space allowance than C but were tested at the same temperature, within their Thermoneutral zone (range = 12–18 °C). The HS lambs were, instead, subjected to higher temperatures (range = 19–30 °C). Scan sampling of behavior was conducted, eye temperature and body weight were also recorded. LSA and HS lambs showed more discomfort behaviors (p < 0.05) and higher eye temperatures (p < 0.001) compared to C lambs, while HS lambs additionally showed a decrease in body weight over the experimental period (p < 0.001). This study indicates that lower space allowances and higher temperatures impact negatively the welfare of lambs transported for slaughter suggesting that the regulation should be implemented taking these factors into account.

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“…In fact, animal welfare is affected by the loading livestock into the truck, the loading and unloading time and the transport time resulting in an increase in heart rate, nervousness and agitation of the animal (EFSA, 2004;Chacon et al, 2005;Padalino & Riley, 2020). Furthermore, the duration of transport affects the physiological and behavioral state (Miranda-de la Lama et al, 2014), altered the immune system (Padalino et al, 2017), favors infections (Cirone et al, 2019) and has been found to be a major risk factor for morbidity and mortality (Gonzàlez et al, 2012;Padalino et al, 2015;Padalino et al, 2018) in farm animals.…”

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Correlation between circulating cortisol and indicators of stress and oxidant stress during the preslaughter operations in camels

Lemrhamed

Moussahil

Tabite

et al. 2023

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In livestock, pre-slaughter stress begins at the farm or market, continues during transport and upon arrival at the slaughterhouse, ending at slaughter. In this investigation, a survey was conducted in the slaughterhouse of Casablanca in Morocco to record the duration of the preslaughter operations and the frequency of urination in camels. Two groups of camels were constituted, the least stressed animals (Group I, n= 12) and the most stressed animals (Group II, n= 12). Group I animals had a waiting time before loading ≤ 24 h, a loading time ≤ 15 min, an unloading time ≤ 5 min, a water and food deprivation time before slaughter ≤ 24 h, a duration of accompaniment to the slaughter room ≤ 11 min and a frequency of urination during this accompaniment < 3 times. Those in group II had higher duration and frequency values for the same parameters. In addition, serum stress [cortisol (COR)], oxidant stress biomarkers [malondialdehyde (MDA)] and activities of catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) were analyzed in both groups, and correlations between these biomarkers and the durations of various preslaughter operations and the frequency of urination were established. The most stressed camels (G II) showed high serum concentrations of COR and MDA, and low CAT and SOD activities by comparison to the less stressed camels (G I) (P<0.05). Significant correlations were recorded between COR, MDA, CAT and SOD, and the durations of various preslaughter operations, and between COR and the frequency of urination.

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Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) on a request from the Commission related to the welfare of animals during transport

Cited by 19 publications

References 329 publications

Farm Animal Welfare Science in China—A Bibliometric Review of Chinese Literature

Farm Animal Welfare Science in China—A Bibliometric Review of Chinese Literature

Effects of Reduced Space Allowance and Heat Stress on Behavior and Eye Temperature in Unweaned Lambs: A Pilot Study

Correlation between circulating cortisol and indicators of stress and oxidant stress during the preslaughter operations in camels

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