Benchmarking af dansk dyreværnslovgivning og markedsdrevet dyrevelfærd i forhold til seks udvalgte europæiske lande

Dette projekt sammenligner dyrevelfærden på tværs af en række lande i forhold til følgende parametre: lovgivning, initiativer til at sikre overholdelse af lovgivningen, markedsdrevne initiativer til fremme af dyrevelfærd, disse initiativers markedsandele og kvalitet af certificering og kontrol. 

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Styrkelse af grisenes velfærd gennem markedsdrevne initiativer

Resultater fra dette projekt samt projektet Værdiskabelse i dansk svineproduktion gennem øget fokus på dyrevelfærd præsenteres i bogen 'Styrkelse af grisenes velfærd gennem markedsdrevne initiativer'. I bogen bliver mulighederne for at styrke salget af svinekød produceret med ekstra dyrevelfærd herhjemme og i udlandet diskuteret, og der præsenteres et redskab til at sammenligne niveauet af dyrevelfærd på tværs af lande.

Du kan læse bogen her: Styrkelse af grisenes velfærd gennem markedsdrevne initiativer (pdf)


Benchmarking Farm Animal Welfare — A Novel Tool for Cross-Country Comparison Applied to Pig Production and Pork Consumption

P. Sandøe, H. O. Hansen, H. L. H. Rhode, H. Houe, C. Palmer, B. Forkman, T. Christensen (2020)
Animals. MDPI

Abstract

A pluralist approach to farm animal welfare, combining animal welfare legislation with market-driven initiatives, has developed in many countries. To enable cross-country comparisons of pig welfare, a number of welfare dimensions, covering the features typically modified in legisla- tive and market-driven welfare initiatives aimed at pig production, were defined. Five academic welfare experts valued the different welfare states within each dimension on a 0–10 scale, then as- sessed the relative contribution of each dimension to overall welfare on a 1–5 scale. By combining these values and weights with an inventory of pig welfare initiatives in five countries, the additional welfare generated by each initiative was calculated. Together with information on the national cov- erage of each initiative, the Benchmark value for each country’s production and consumption of pork could be calculated on a scale from 0 to 100. Two (Sweden and the UK) had a much higher Benchmark value than the rest. However, there was a drop in the Benchmark for consumption in Sweden and the UK (indicating imports from countries with lower-Benchmark values for production). Even though the experts differed in the values and weights ascribed to different initiatives, they were largely in agreement in their ranking of the countries.

Benchmarking Farm Animal Welfare — A Novel Tool for Cross-Country Comparison Applied to Pig Production and Pork Consumption (pdf)


Market driven initiatives can improve broiler welfare – A comparison across five European countries based on the Benchmark method

Sandøe, P., Hansen, H. O., Forkman, B., van Horne, P., Houe, H., de Jong, I. C., Kjær, J. B., Nielsen, S. S., Palmer, C., Lottrup, H., Rhode, H., & Christensen, T. (2022) 
Poultry Science.
Elsevier

Abstract

Two kinds of initiatives exist to ensure welfare in broiler production: welfare legislation, where all broiler production in a country or region must comply with legally defined welfare standards; and market driven initiatives, where part of the production must meet specific welfare standards and is sold with a particular label, typically at a price premium, or as part of minimum welfare standards defined by a retailer, a fast-food chain or the like. While the effects of national legislation may be undermined by price competition from lower-welfare imported products, the effects of market driven initiatives may be limited by lack of willingness from consumers to pay the extra cost. To investigate how this works out in practice, we compared broiler welfare requirements in five European countries, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden, in 2018, by means of the Benchmark method. A number of welfare dimensions, covering the input features typically modified in broiler welfare initiatives, were defined. A total of 27 academic welfare experts (response rate 75%) valued the different levels within each dimension on a 0-10 scale, and then weighted the relative contribution of each dimension to overall welfare on a 1-5 scale. By combining these values and weights with an inventory of existing welfare initiatives, the additional welfare generated by each initiative was calculated. Together with information on national coverage of each initiative, the Benchmark score for each country's production and consumption of chicken meat was calculated. Sweden achieved a much higher Benchmark for national production due to higher legal standards than any of the four other countries. The Netherlands, on the other hand, achieved a Benchmark for national consumption of chicken at the same level as that found in Sweden, because market driven initiatives complemented more welfare-limited Dutch legislation. So, despite some uncertainties in the Benchmark method, it appears that market driven initiatives can have a strong impact on improving broiler welfare, building on those standards achieved by animal welfare legislation.

Market driven initiatives can improve broiler welfare – A comparison across five European countries based on the Benchmark method (pdf)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deltagere i projektet

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Björn Forkman Professor +4535333581 E-mail
Hans Houe Professor +4535333014 E-mail
Henning Otte Hansen Seniorrådgiver +4535333432 E-mail
Peter Sandøe Sektionsleder +4535333059 E-mail
Tove Christensen Lektor +4535331069 E-mail

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Projekt: Benchmarking af dansk dyreværnslovgivning og markedsdrevet dyrevelfærd i forhold til seks udvalgte europæiske lande
Periode:  1. september 2018 til 31. december 2019 

Projektet er støttet af Videncenter for Dyrevelfærd, Miljø- og Fødevareministeriet

Kontakt

Peter Sandøe er professor i bioetik ved Københavns Universitet.

pes@sund.ku.dk

+45 35 33 30 59