Animal welfare on the move
Science on the Menu: A Food Safety Podcast by EFSA
European Food Safety Authority
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🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Animal welfare affects us all. Did you know your health is directly linked to the well-being of animals? Listen in to find out why! Welfare is not only an ethical issue, it's a scientific one. Our scientists at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) are investigating the latest scientific evidence on how animals experience their surroundings. Our expert, Sean Ashe, walks us through EFSA's most recent findings, with special attention to animal transport. Come and join us on this (hopefully enjoyable) journey with Science on the Menu.
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| 0:00.0 | Science on the menu, a podcast by the European Food Safety Authority. |
| 0:18.7 | Hello everybody and welcome to the latest edition of our podcast series Science on the menu. |
| 0:25.7 | Today we're going to be talking about animal welfare and I'm very happy to have an animal welfare expert with us from EFSA. |
| 0:34.5 | Sean, hi, how are you? |
| 0:36.4 | Hello James. I'm very well. Thanks. Great. Very glad to have you here with usSA. Sean, hi, how are you? Hello, James. I'm very well, thanks. |
| 0:38.2 | Great. Very glad to have you here with us today. |
| 0:41.4 | So, animals are sentient beings. And this is not just my opinion or anyone's opinion, |
| 0:47.4 | but a principle recognized in EU law. And we know the topic of animal welfare, which has always |
| 0:53.2 | been important, obviously, has become increasingly relevant and prominent in the topic of animal welfare which has always been important obviously has become |
| 0:55.6 | increasingly relevant and prominent in the public debate in recent years all animal welfare |
| 1:01.5 | legislation at the moment is in the process of being updated and eFSA is also very active in this space |
| 1:09.3 | so that's why we're talking about animal welfare today. |
| 1:13.0 | Before we really jump into the topic, |
| 1:15.6 | I'd like to ask you, Sean, to give us a bit of a background |
| 1:19.7 | about who you are, where you come from, |
| 1:21.5 | how you end up working at EFSA. |
| 1:24.9 | Oh, this is a very long story, but I'll try and make it somewhat short. I'm a vet graduated in 1996, spent a few years in practice that's working as a real life hands on vet in the west of Ireland for about four years. Then I joined the competent authority in Ireland, which is the Department of Agriculture, worked on various things there. |
| 1:46.0 | And in 2020, I was asked to come along and do some work here at EFSA, subsequent to a new mandate arriving from the European Commission on the welfare of animals during transport. |
| 1:59.0 | Ah, okay. So is that an area that you're particularly familiar with or specialise in? |
| 2:05.5 | I was involved in live animal trade in the Department of Agriculture in Ireland, the policy |
| 2:10.2 | side of that for the five years prior to coming to Parma. |
| 2:17.4 | So animal welfare, I mean, some people might be surprised that an prior to coming to Parma. |
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