: Farm to Factory

Intensive Farming and the Welfare of Farm Animals

To live like a pig in an intensive environment Page 4 To live like a pig in a natural environment Page 6 Laying hens Page 8 Meat chickens Page 10 Selective breeding Page 12 Alternatives to factory farming Page 14 Legislation on farm animal welfare Page 16 Feeding the world – environment and resource implications Page 18 Factory farming and rural employment Page 20 Why should we care about farm ...

Affective Beliefs Influence the Experience of Eating Meat

People believe they experience the world objectively, but research continually demonstrates that beliefs influence perception. Emerging research indicates that beliefs influence the experience of eating. In three studies, we test whether beliefs about how animals are raised can influence the experience of eating meat. Samples of meat were paired with descriptions of animals raised on factory fa...

Story of the Thermometer and Its Uses in Agriculture

THAT common but useful little instrument, the thermometer, may be employed in various ways on the farm to the farmer's benefit. It will give exact information regarding temperature, which is important to the farmer, and thereby increase exact methods on the farm at little cost. In all departments of industry exact methods are superseding inexact methods, and the accurate ways of the manufacture...

[Prevention of hand injuries in collective farm trappers and organization of processing traumatological aid in a seal and fat processing factory].

Energy and Carbon Impact of Precision Livestock Farming Technologies Implementation in the Milk Chain: From Dairy Farm to Cheese Factory

Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is being developed in livestock farms to relieve the human workload and to help farmers to optimize production and management procedure. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the consequences in energy intensity and the related carbon impact, from dairy farm to cheese factory, due to the implementation of a real-time milk analysis and separation (AfiMil...

The Nature of the Farm*

Using a model based on a trade-off between moral hazard incentives and gains from specialization, this paper explains why farming has generally not converted from small, family-based firms into large, factory-style corporate firms. Nature is both seasonal and random, and the interplay of these qualities generates moral hazard, limits the gains from specialization, and causes timing problems bet...