标准2025保护动物福祉意为着为它提供身体和精神上的需要。动物饲养不再只被看做一种食物生产的方式，还是一种伦理关怀。
顾客对于动物如何被饲养的关心日益渐增。饲养动物的健康、安乐也与食物的质量、甚至安全有紧密的联系。随着顾客对动物福祉问题的意识逐渐加深，对符合动物福祉标准的产品需求也在上升，坚持这些高标准的生产商因此拥有了竞争优势。
同样地，食品工厂也正在采取行动，以便更好地落实动物福祉管理。
国际标准化组织（ISO）新的技术规范ISO/TS 34700:2016 动物福祉管理——食物供应链中组织的一般需求与指导会帮助食品与饲料工厂制定符合世界动物卫生组织（OIE）陆生动物健康法典（TAHC）原则的动物福祉计划，确保整个供应链的农场动物福祉。
ISO与OIE曾于2011年签订了合作协议并顺其行之，ISO/TS 34700便代表了它们共同努力的结果。新的技术规范旨在支持落实相关实践，确保各个畜牧生产系统中的动物福祉。这将是经营者向外展示动物福祉管理决心的一种方式。
制定ISO/TC 34/WG 16文件的会议工作组主席弗朗索瓦.盖里博士说：“动物生产食物链的经营者将是ISO/TS 34700的第一受益人，包括牧民、牲畜运输公司及屠宰场。通过创建一个共同的动物福祉管理词汇和方法， ISO技术规范将改善食品供应链内的供应者与顾客间的必要对话，尤其是初级生产与加工人员之间的交流，这将成为一个企业对企业的工具。
ISO/TS 34700将为类似私营部门和主管机构提供一个有益的工具，来帮助他们消除规章制度中的矛盾，尤其是正为动物福祉政策推进公私合作关系的发展国家。
在ISO/TS 34700的制定中十分注重小公司的需求，这些小公司（家庭农场、小型运输公司、小型屠宰场等等）构成了大多数参与动物食品供应链的企业经营者。但对于涉及动物产品贸易的公司来说，此文件还具有国际参考价值。
其他组织——比如零售商、顾客及对保护动物福祉有兴趣的非政府组织将成为ISO/TS 34700的间接受益者，因为经营者们开始表现出对动物健康和福祉的欣赏与关心。
OIE理事长莫尼克.艾略特说道：“此项ISO技术规范将提供一个关键框架，支持OIE的动物福祉国际标准在全球范围的落实。持续对动物实施仁爱的、道德的饲养环境能够为牧民和生产者带来保障、为消费者带来信心。”
SSAFE的目标是通过公私合作关系来促进国际公认食品保护系统和标准的持续改善与全球认可，其成员也对此技术规范的制定提供了支持。
SSAFE主席西奥多拉.莫丽列.海因兹说道：“SSAFE支持动物福祉规范ISO/TS 34700的原因在于它提供了一个实际的工具，从而在遵循OIE原则的基础上提升食用动物的优良动物福祉实践，并且鼓励整条食品供应链中的所有利益相关人遵守与动物食品相关的OIE动物福祉标准。”
负责制定此技术规范的工作组召集了全球各个领域中的130多个专家。由于发展中国家和广泛利益相关人（私有企业、主管当局、非政府组织等等）的积极参与，工作组为寻求共识提供了一个具有代表性的平衡点。
与所有ISO技术规范相同，ISO/TS 34700将在三年内进行正规的系统评价，并整理反馈。
ISO/TS 34700:2016 将由ISO工作组ISO/TC 34/WG 16制定。此工作组的秘书处从属于AFNOR——法国的ISO成员。此文件可从您国家的ISO成员或ISO商店内购买。
动物拥有的五大自由权：
OIE的动物福祉指导原则还在OIE TAHC的第7.1章中提到了公认的“五大自由权”，描述了人类控制下的五方面动物福祉。按目前表达的内容，动物福祉的五大自由权为：
o 免于饥饿、营养不良与饥渴的自由权
o 免于恐惧与痛苦的自由权
o 免于身体不适与热不适的自由权
o 免于疼痛、受伤与疾病的自由权
o 表达正常的行为模式的自由权
New ISO specification for better management of animal welfare worldwide
Protecting an animal’s welfare means providing for its physical and mental needs. The farming of animals is no longer just seen as a means of food production but as an ethical concern.
Consumers are increasingly concerned about the treatment of animals and the well-being of farmed animals is strongly associated with the quality, and even the safety, of food. As consumer awareness of animal welfare issues continues to rise, the demand for products complying with animal welfare standards is growing, giving producers who maintain these high standards a competitive advantage.
Likewise, the food industry is taking more action to better implement animal welfare management. The new ISO technical specification ISO/TS 34700:2016, Animal welfare management – General requirements and guidance for organizations in the food supply chain, will help the food and feed industry to develop an animal welfare plan that is aligned with the principles of the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) Terrestrial Animal Health Code (TAHC)* and ensure the welfare of farm animals across the supply chain.
ISO/TS 34700 represents the culmination of a joint effort between ISO and the OIE following the cooperation agreement signed in 2011 between the two organizations. The new technical specification is intended to support the implementation of relevant practices to ensure animal welfare in livestock production systems. It will be a way for business operators in the food supply chain to demonstrate their commitment to animal welfare management.
“The first beneficiaries of ISO/TS 34700 will be the business operators of the animal production food chain, including animal farmers, livestock transport companies and slaughterhouses,” says Dr François Gary, Convenor of working group ISO/TC 34/WG 16 that developed the document. “By creating a common vocabulary and a common approach to animal welfare management, this ISO technical specification will improve the needed dialogue between suppliers and customers within the food supply chain, especially between primary production and processing operators. This will be a business-to-business tool.”
ISO/TS 34700 will serve as a helpful tool for the private sector and competent authorities alike to clear up discrepancies in the regulatory framework, especially in developing countries facilitating public-private partnerships for animal welfare policy.
During the development of ISO/TS 34700, special attention was paid to the needs of small companies that make up most of the business operators involved in the animal food supply chain (family farms, small transport companies, small slaughterhouses…). But the document will also act as an international reference for companies involved in the trade of animal products.
Other parties, such as retailers, consumers and NGOs with an interest in animal welfare protection, will be indirect beneficiaries of ISO/TS 34700 as business operators begin to demonstrate their appreciation and commitment for animal health and welfare.
“The ISO technical specification will provide an important framework supporting the implementation of the OIE’s international standards for animal welfare around the world,” says Dr Monique Eloit, Director General of the OIE. “Consistent implementation of humane and ethical rearing conditions for animals provides certainty for farmers and producers, and confidence for consumers.”
The members of SSAFE, a non-profit membership-driven organization that aims to foster continuous improvement and global acceptance of internationally recognized food protection systems and standards through public-private partnerships, supported the development of the technical specification.
“SSAFE supports ISO/TS 34700 for animal welfare as it provides a practical tool for promoting good animal welfare practices for food-producing animals based on OIE principles, and encourages all stakeholders across the food supply chain to observe the OIE animal welfare standards in relation to trade in foods of animal origin,” says Theodora Morille-Hinds, President of SSAFE.
The working group in charge of developing the technical specification brings together more than 130 experts from all regions of the world, with strong participation from developing countries and a broad range of stakeholders (private sectors, competent authorities, NGOs…), providing a representative balance in the search for consensus.
As with all ISO technical specifications, ISO/TS 34700 will undergo its normal systematic review in three years’ time and feedback will need to be organized.
ISO/TS 34700:2016 was developed by ISO working group ISO/TC 34/WG 16, whose secretariat is held by AFNOR, the ISO member for France. It can be purchased from your national ISO member or though the ISO Store.
Five freedoms for animals
The OIE’s guiding principles on animal welfare also mention the universally recognized “Five Freedoms”, stated in Chapter 7.1 of the OIE TAHC, which outline five aspects of animal welfare under human control. The five freedoms for animal welfare, as currently expressed, are:
o Freedom from hunger, malnutrition and thirst
o Freedom from fear and distress
o Freedom from physical and thermal discomfort
o Freedom from pain, injury and disease
o Freedom to express normal patterns of behavior