Chad Gregory & Jill Benson-Woodward – IEC London 2011
Economics Session Presentation – “US Egg Industry – All Change?”
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Economics Session Presentation – “US Egg Industry – All Change?”
Economics Session Presentation – “Approaching the EU Ban on Conventional Cages”
The Welfare Quality® project has developed an operational definition of farm animal welfare, which consists of 12 criteria grouped into four principles (‘good feeding’, ‘good housing’, ‘good health’ and ‘appropriate behaviour’). As part of a larger survey, 204 farmers, 72 vegetarians, and a representative sample of 459 adult citizens in Flanders (Belgium) scored the importance …
On-farm welfare assessment has been used mainly for non-regulatory purposes such as producer education or to qualify for voluntary welfare-assurance programs. The application of on-farm assessments in regulatory programs would require four issues to be addressed: (1) selecting criteria that arewidely accepted as valid by diverse citizens, (2) setting minimum legal levels, (3) achieving the …
Egg production systems have become subject to heightened levels of scrutiny. Multiple factors such as disease, skeletal and foot health, pest and parasite load, behavior, stress, affective states, nutrition, and genetics influence the level of welfare hens experience. Although the need to evaluate the influence of these factors on welfare is recognized, research is still …
Awareness of farm animal welfare issues is growing in Canada, as part of a larger food movement. The baseline Canadian standards for farm animal welfare – the Recommended Codes of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals – are up for revision. The success of these standards will depend in part on perceived legitimacy, which …
Prior to slaughter, most farmed birds move through a constant-voltage, multiple-bird, electrical water-bath stun system. Using this system subjects live …
In spite of the large amounts of money invested in research, breeding, and the improvement of commercial egg-type strains, high …
Layer breeding companies apply selection criteria to improve over 30 traits important for commercial egg production. Intensive selection for egg …
The social and political pressure to change egg production from conventional cage systems to alternative systems has been largely driven …
Conventional cage housing for laying hens evolved as a cost-effective egg production system. Complying with mandated hen housing alternatives would raise marginal production costs and require sizable capital investment. California data indicate that shifts from conventional cages to barn housing would likely cause farm-level cost increases of about 40% per dozen. The US data on …
By 2050, the global food requirement will increase significantly, driven by a population increase tomore than nine billion and by a richer diet. There is a need for agricultural and food systems that are not only more productive, but also sustainable. Currently, progress is hampered by a lack of understanding how to close the yield …
Global food and feed demands have been projected to double in the 21st century, which will further increase the pressure …
The effects of climate change are controversial. This paper reviews the effects of climate change on livestock following the theory …
The US egg industry is being pressured from many directions to change its production practices, particularly to address concerns about hen welfare in conventional cage systems. Responding to similar pressures, in 1999, the European Union banned conventional laying cages starting in 2012. This now impending European ban has led to the development of several alternative …
Smallholder livestock keepers represent almost 20% of the world population and steward most of the agricultural land in the tropics. …