De Luca Silvio, Zanardi Emanuela, Alborali Giovanni Loris, Ianieri Adriana, Ghidini Sergio
Department of Food and Drug, University of Parma, Via del Taglio 10, 43126 Parma, Italy.
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna-Headquarters, Via A. Bianchi, 9, 25124 Brescia, Italy.
Animals (Basel). 2021 Jan 18;11(1):226. doi: 10.3390/ani11010226.
The assessment of swine welfare requires feasible, reliable, and reasonable indicators. On-farm evaluation of pig welfare can provide valuable information to veterinarians and farmers. However, such protocols can result expensive and time-consuming. With this regard, an interest in the appraisal of swine welfare at abattoir has grown over the recent years. In particular, the use of certain lesions collected directly from slaughtered animals to determine the welfare status of pigs has been evaluated by several authors. In the present review, the different methods developed to score lesions collected directly from the body and the viscera of animals slaughtered in European abattoirs ("abattoir-based measures") are presented. The text specifically focuses on the methods currently available in the literature for the scoring of body, pluck and gastric lesions during post-mortem activities. Moreover, the strengths and weaknesses of abattoir-based measures schemes are discussed. To conclude, the future perspectives of the assessment of pig welfare at the slaughterhouse are described, appealing for a benchmarking system that can be systematically used by veterinarians and other professional figures involved in the process.
猪福利的评估需要可行、可靠且合理的指标。农场内对猪福利的评估可为兽医和养殖户提供有价值的信息。然而，此类方案可能成本高昂且耗时。鉴于此，近年来人们对在屠宰场评估猪福利的兴趣与日俱增。特别是，几位作者已对直接从屠宰动物身上采集某些病变来确定猪的福利状况进行了评估。在本综述中，介绍了为对直接从欧洲屠宰场宰杀动物的身体和内脏采集的病变进行评分而开发的不同方法（“基于屠宰场的措施”）。本文具体聚焦于文献中目前可用于在宰后活动中对身体、内脏和胃部病变进行评分的方法。此外，还讨论了基于屠宰场的措施方案的优缺点。最后，描述了屠宰场猪福利评估的未来前景，呼吁建立一个可供兽医和参与该过程的其他专业人员系统使用的基准系统。
