Animal Nutrition and Welfare in Sustainable Production Systems

Impact of Animal Nutrition on Animal Welfare

Precision Animal Breeding as a Sustainable, non-GMO Solution for Improving Animal Production and Welfare

Although dehorning and castration are recognized as requisite practices in modern livestock systems, producers would like to avoid animal welfare issues that arise from current management methods. Increased criticism and scrutiny of both producers and the food industry emanates from a growing number of concerned citizens and NGOs with animal rights/animal welfare agendas. The optimal and simple...

Animal Health and Welfare Issues Facing Organic Production Systems

The demand for organically-grown produce is increasing worldwide, with one of the drivers being an expectation among consumers that animals have been farmed to a high standard of animal welfare. This review evaluates whether this expectation is in fact being met, by describing the current level of science-based knowledge of animal health and welfare in organic systems. The primary welfare risk ...

Animal health and welfare--pig production.

Requirements of the organic pig farming create an opportunity to offer good life for animals. The space requirements give animals the possibility to exhibit species-specific behavior and provide them opportunity for more exercise. Bedding and roughage are important in helping to reduce production stress. The most difficult question in a veterinary point of view is how to manage the animal healt...

Definition of animal breeding goals for sustainable production systems.

What we do is determined by the way we "view" a complex issue and what sample of issues or events we choose to deal with. In this paper, a model based on a communal, cultural, or people-centered worldview, informed by a subjective epistemology and a holistic ontology, is considered. Definitions and interpretations of sustainable agriculture are reviewed. Common elements in published definitions...