Simple Summary Farm animal welfare is a complex issue linking several academic
disciplines, including animal science, veterinary, psychology, sociology, and agricultural …

Farm animal welfare in livestock production is a topical and important issue attracting
growing interest of policy makers, consumers, stakeholders in the supply chain and others …

The magnitude of public concerns about agricultural innovations has often been
underestimated, as past examples, such as pesticides, nanotechnology, and cloning …

Practices in agriculture can have negative effects on the environment, rural communities,
food safety, and animal welfare. Although disagreements are possible about specific issues …

Welfare Quality® was the largest ever European research project on animal welfare. Here,
we briefly describe some major achievements of Welfare Quality® and identify future …

As part of a larger project to determine if there are animal-welfare-related values shared by
some commercial food–animal producers and non-producers in Canada, open-ended, semi …

Positive welfare and related terms such as good welfare, happiness, and a good life are
increasingly used in the animal welfare science literature. Overall, they highlight the welfare …

Many contemporary dairy cattle housing practices are at odds with societal perceptions of
positive animal welfare. The public (ie, those external to the dairy industry) typically …

Current animal welfare protocols focus on demonstrating the absence (or at least low levels)
of indicators of poor welfare, potentially creating a mismatch between what is expected by …

Globalizing animal geographies scholarship illuminates the complexity of human-animal
relations and the variety of topical realms and contexts in which interspecies encounters …