Identifying animal welfare impacts of livestock air transport

Animal welfare monitoring and livestock traceability during transport.

The authors present an experimental project that aims to establish an effective navigation system in accordance with European Council Regulation 1/2005 concerning animal welfare during transport. The prototype created during the project consists of both hardware and software components. An onboard unit is installed at truck level. It collects and transmits real-time information of the animal tr...

The welfare of livestock during road transport

The welfare of animals during transport should be assessed using a range of behavioural, physiological and carcass quality measures. In addition, health is an important part of welfare so the extent of any disease, injury or mortality resulting from, or exacerbated by, transport should be measured. Many of the indicators are measures of stress in that they involve long-term adverse effects on t...

Environmental impacts from livestock production with different animal welfare potentials – a literature review

SUMMARY There is a rising awareness of the many negative environmental impacts related to the rapidly growing global production and consumption of animal products, such as land degradation, biodiversity losses, emissions of nutrients (most importantly nitrogen and phosphorus) and greenhouse gases. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and, more recently, Carbon Footprinting (CF), have become the major m...

ISAH-2007 Tartu, Estonia 702 ANIMAL WELFARE AT TRANSPORT AND AT SLAUGHTER OF LIVESTOCK AND POUTRY

Animal transport and welfare: a global challenge.

Animal welfare has moved on from being a concern of a caring few to the stuff of international legislation. The author argues that more research is needed into animal welfare, especially since legislation should be based on sound science rather than emotion or anthropomorphism. The farming and animal handling community should consider the potential benefits of animal welfare rather than viewing...