This paper explores the future sustainability of farm animal veterinary practice in light of changes in both the farming and veterinary sectors. The paper makes a valuable contribution to the rural enterprise and veterinary business literatures, finding that future sustainability of farm animal veterinary practice is dependent on vets being prepared to change with their clients, develop support...

Endemic diseases of cattle, such as bovine viral diarrhea, have significant impact on production efficiency of food of animal origin with consequences for animal welfare and climate change reduction targets. Many modeling studies focus on the local scale, examining the on-farm dynamics of this infectious disease. However, insight into prevalence and control across a network of farms ultimately ...

Animal agriculture in North America has undergone a revolution since World War II. Productivity has increased enormously through the use of animal confinement, genetic selection, scientific feed formulation, and productivity-enhancing pharmaceuticals. There has been a shift to larger production units taking advantage of economies of scale. Critics contend that these changes have reduced the wel...

Concerns about farm animal welfare vary among individuals and societies. As people increasingly consider the values underlying current farm animal production methods, farm animal welfare policy debates have escalated. Recent food animal protection policies enacted in the European Union have fueled highly contentious discussions about the need for similar legislative activity in the United State...

Bio diversity in its broader sense is the variety of life in all its forms, levels and combinations and its interactions, consisting of species, genetic and ecosystem diversity. Farm animal genetic resources are those animal populations that are used, may be used, for the production of food and agriculture. In animal farming, production systems and its genetic diversity are having a close link ...

Just occasionally, a landmark event triggers lasting animal welfare change. So it was for farm animal welfare with a book called Animal Machines published in 1964 by Ruth Harrison (Harrison, 1964). The book alerted the general public to the suffering of intensively farmed calves and chickens and prompted the Brambell Report that developed a list of five freedoms for farmed animals and prompted ...