Concepts of Animal Health and Welfare in Organic Livestock Systems

Breeding and feeding for animal health and welfare in organic livestock systems

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 ...

Human-animal relationship: stockmanship and housing in organic livestock systems

The farmer and the animal: a double mirror X. Boivin*, B. J. Lensink and I. Veissier 5 Qualitative welfare assessment: reading the behavioural expressions of pigs F. Wemelsfelder 14 The effect of the operational environment and operating protocols on the attitudes and behaviour of employed stockpersons M. F. Seabrook 21 Daily practice and dialogue-aspects of stockmanship and inter-human relatio...

Editorial: concepts of animal welfare.

Four of the papers (by Donald Broom, Lennart Nordenfelt, Kirsten Schmidt and Christine Leeb) in this issue of Acta Biotheoretica stem from a symposium on the theme ,,Concepts of animal welfare—interdisciplinary perspectives’’ that was held on 8–9 October 2009 in Bad Neuenahr (Germany), organised by the Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Ba...

Animal Welfare and Organic Aquaculture in Open Systems

The principles of organic farming espouse a holistic approach to agriculture that promotes sustainable and harmonious relationships amongst the natural environment, plants, and animals, as well as regard for animals’ physiological and behavioral needs. However, open aquaculture systems—both organic and conventional—present unresolved and significant challenges to the welfare of farmed and wild ...