Intensive livestock farming has raised issues about environmental impacts and food security
during the past 20 years. As a consequence, there is a strong social demand for sustainable …

Simple Summary Dairy production has evolved over many generations to be an important
source of high-quality nutrition for a significant proportion of the global population. However …

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

Sustainability transitions are commonly considered impossible without regime change.
Theoretical work on regime change has mainly focused on niches and landscapes and less …

Milk production of dairy cows has increased markedly during recent decades and continues
to increase further. The evolutionarily conserved direction of nutrients to the mammary gland …

Global concerns regarding bacterial antibiotic resistance demand prudent use of antibiotics
in livestock production. Dairy production in the Nordic countries has a low consumption of …

The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework that will help in understanding
and evaluating, along social and ethical lines, the issue of killing day-old male chicks and …

Recent public interest in so-called “ethical” food production, and in particular the welfare of
intensively housed farm animals, has been linked to an increase in sales of free-range eggs …

A large variety of models has been developed to explore the multidimensional, and
sometimes conflicting, sustainability consequences of innovations and policies for European …

Livestock production is confronted with significant challenges across all dimensions of
sustainability. There is an urgent need to identify sustainable livestock systems that are …