Articles tagged with 'Animal products'

The donkey skin trade has rapidly expanded over the last few years due to a huge demand for a traditional Chinese medicine known as ‘ejiao’, which is a combination of herbs and gelatin from donkey skin.

At present, the only animal product that is regularly labelled according to its production system is carton eggs. There are three recognised definitions: caged, barn and free range, as defined in the Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: Domestic Poultry.

In barn and free-range egg production systems, hens have access to a nest in which to lay their eggs. This is a key behavioural need for layer hens.

The RSPCA Standard for farmed Atlantic salmon focusses on ensuring good farming practices, fish handling, husbandry and management. For good fish welfare, fish have space to swim normally in oxygen-rich water and can school with other fish, they are handled in a low stress manner and are slaughtered humanely.

Making higher-welfare food choices leads to increased uptake of higher-welfare farming practices along the supply chain. This in turn leads to farm animals benefitting from better conditions. Higher-welfare food, also referred to as ‘humane food’, is meat, eggs and dairy that have come from animals farmed to higher-welfare standards.

Cephalopods are a group of invertebrate animals, which include octopi, squid, cuttlefish and nautili. The protection of cephalopods under animal welfare legislation is dependent upon the definition of ‘animal’ in the animal welfare legislation of each State and Territory.