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Choice, control, and animal welfare: definitions and essential inquiries to advance animal welfare science

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023
The ways in which humans can support good welfare for animals in their care is an ongoing subject of debate: some place emphasis on the animals’ physical health; others, on animals’ ability to live “natural lives”; and others on animals’ affective states
Maisy Englund, Katherine A. Cronin
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Is “cultured meat” a viable alternative to slaughtering animals and a good comprise between animal welfare and human expectations?

open access: yesAnimal Frontiers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfac002 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution,
Sghaier Chriki   +2 more
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Twelve Threats of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) for Animal Welfare

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Research and development of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is booming, partly due to hopes and claims regarding the benefits of PLF for animal welfare.
F. Tuyttens, C. Molento, S. Benaissa
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A dynamic concept of animal welfare: The role of appetitive and adverse internal and external factors and the animal’s ability to adapt to them

open access: yesFrontiers in Animal Science, 2022
Animal welfare is a multifaceted issue that can be approached from different viewpoints, depending on human interests, ethical assumptions, and culture. To properly assess, safeguard and promote animal welfare, concepts are needed to serve as guidelines ...
S. Arndt   +3 more
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Exploring the Potential of Precision Livestock Farming Technologies to Help Address Farm Animal Welfare

open access: yesFrontiers in Animal Science, 2021
The rise in the demand for animal products due to demographic and dietary changes has exacerbated difficulties in addressing societal concerns related to the environment, human health, and animal welfare.
J. Schillings, R. Bennett, D. Rose
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Animal welfare risks of global aquaculture

open access: yesScience Advances, 2021
Modern aquaculture, which produces billions of animals from hundreds of species each year, is generating unprecedented welfare risks. The unprecedented growth of aquaculture involves well-documented environmental and public-health costs, but less is ...
B. Franks, C. Ewell, Jennifer Jacquet
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Assessing Animal Welfare with Behavior: Onward with Caution

open access: yesJournal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2021
An emphasis on ensuring animal welfare is growing in zoo and aquarium associations around the globe. This has led to a focus on measures of welfare outcomes for individual animals.
Jason Watters   +2 more
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The 2020 Five Domains Model: Including Human–Animal Interactions in Assessments of Animal Welfare

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
Simple Summary This review outlines the latest in a succession of updates of the Five Domains Model, which, at each stage, incorporated contemporary verified scientific thinking of relevance to animal welfare assessment.
D. Mellor   +6 more
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Chinese Public Attitudes towards, and Knowledge of, Animal Welfare

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
Simple Summary Most of our current understanding of attitudes to animals comes from studies conducted in Western countries. China, however, is the world’s biggest producer of farm animals for consumption and has one of the worlds’ largest populations of ...
F. Carnovale   +6 more
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Consumers’ Concerns and Perceptions of Farm Animal Welfare

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
Simple Summary In the current socioeconomic situation, consumers’ concerns about farm animal welfare can prevent them from buying some products, and this influences the sustainability of intensive systems.
M. Alonso   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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