Precision Livestock Farming and Farmers’ Duties to Livestock

Precision livestock farming (PLF) promises to allow modern, large-scale farms to replicate, at scale, caring farmers who know their animals. PLF refers to a suite of technologies, some only speculative. The goal is to use networked devices to continuously monitor individual animals on large farms, t...

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Algorithms
Animal care
Animals
Bioethics
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Consolidation
Control methods
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Electronic devices
Environmental ethics
Ethical standards
Ethics
Evolutionary Biology
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Farming
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Livestock industry
Livestock production
Meat
Meat industry
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Norms
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Plant Sciences
Precision farming
Sustainability
Sustainable agriculture
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
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