Review: Reducing Handling Stress Improves Both Productivity and Welfare

Effects of group housing on sow productivity and welfare: review

Reducing Welfare Dependency and Poverty

The purpose of this paper Is to Investigate empirically two Important questions concerning chi Id support enforcement~ Ftrst, what Is the Impact of receiving chi Id support on welfare dependency and poverty? Second, howeffective are current child support enfor,cement proced~res? The a~alysls utilizes data from the 1979 AFDC Recipient Characteristics Study and the March/Apr I J 1982 Current Popu...

Welfare reducing licensing

In this paper, we characterize situations where licensing an innovation to a rival ...rm using two-part tari¤ contracts (a ...xed fee plus a linear per unit of output royalty) reduces social welfare. We show that it occurs if and only if i) the goods are close enough substitutes, ii) the innovation is large enough but not drastic and iii) the ...rms compete in prices. Moreover, we show that, re...

Salidroside Improves Homocysteine-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction by Reducing Oxidative Stress

Hyperhomocysteinemia is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular diseases through increased oxidative stress. Salidroside is an active ingredient of the root of Rhodiola rosea with documented antioxidative, antihypoxia and neuroprotective properties. However, the vascular benefits of salidroside against endothelial dysfunction have yet to be explored. The present study, therefore, a...

Legal requirements and assessment of stress and welfare during transportation and pre-slaughter handling of pigs

Transportation is considered as a major stressor for farm animals and might have deleterious effects on the health, wellbeing, performance and ultimately on product quality. The European Commission has adopted new transportation rules for animal transport, but research on stress related situations before, during and after transport is still scarce. Assessment of stress during animal transportat...