Farm animal welfare concept: From beginnings to integration in modern production systems
The farm animal welfare science has undergone a thorny path of development, often disputed because of its lack of measurability and the purpose of existence. At the very beginning, primarily based on moral and ethical attitudes, over time it pointed to the importance of meeting the needs of animals...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Biotechnology in animal husbandry 2018, Vol.34 (3), p.269-277 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The farm animal welfare science has undergone a thorny path of development,
often disputed because of its lack of measurability and the purpose of
existence. At the very beginning, primarily based on moral and ethical
attitudes, over time it pointed to the importance of meeting the needs of
animals and the consequences of their neglect and exhaustion in the
conditions of intensive livestock production. An important segment of its
development was the definition and development of methodologies for the
assessment of welfare indicators, which made it measurable and accepted as a
scientific discipline with the knowledge applicable and useful in modern
production systems. This paper is a concise review of the evolution of the
animal welfare science, but also an indication of its future in the context
of the development of "symbiotic" connections with the concepts of
sustainable agriculture and food safety as integral parts of the modern
ecological movement arose from a unified concern for the welfare of people
and animals, a care for planetary welfare in general. |
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ISSN: | 1450-9156 2217-7140 |
DOI: | 10.2298/BAH1803269O |