Science And Society Improving Animal Welfare
This extensive collection of articles concerning farm animal welfare and related issues originated from the Welfare Quality Conference Proceedings during November 2005 in Brussels, Belgium.
A collection of articles including:
- Introducing the Welfare Quality Project (Harry Blokhuis)
- European consumers’ views about farm animal welfare (Mara Miele, Adrian Evans)
- Animal friendliness and food consumption practices. Preliminary results from population surveys in 7 countries (Unni Kjaernes, Randi Lavik, Ingrid Kjoerstad)
- Farmers’ engagement in animal welfare, the case of pig producers (Bettina Bock)
- Developing a monitoring system to assess welfare quality in cattle, pigs, and chickens (Linda Keeling, Isabelle Veissier)
- Developing practical species-specific measures to improve farm animal welfare (Xavier Manteca, Xavier Boivin, Kees van Reenan, Michael Mendl, Bonne Beerda, Alistair Lawrence, Alex Bach, Bryan Jones)
- A review of the tools that are being developed to facilitate the implementation of improved animal welfare standards (Andy Butterworth)
- Stakeholder involvement in Welfare Quality (Harry Blokhuis)
- Implementing the results and recommendations from the Welfare Quality project (Andy Butterworth)
- Welfare quality in the food service sector – example McDonald’s (Reinhard Kaeppel)
- Welfare quality in relation to producers (Per-Ake Sahlberg)
- Consumer attitudes to animal welfare: A summary of the main findings of the Eurobarometer survey (Andrea Gavinelli)
- Communication from the commission to the council and the European Parliament on animal welfare legislation on farmed animals in third countries and the implications for the EU (Andrea Gavinell)
 OTHER TOPICS |
Animal Law | Attitudes | Evaluation | Factory Farming | Living Conditions | Meat Consumption | Chickens | Cows | Farm Animals | Pigs
Various, A. Butterworth (Editor), Welfare Quality, 2005 International
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