Feather pecking and cannibalism in chickens can lead to injury or to death of the victims, and is thus a serious welfare and economic issue in modern poultry farming. A sib selection scheme has been initiated to genetically select a low mortality line (LML), which shows decreased mortality due to cannibalism compared to a control …
Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) has developed fast over the last three decades. Whereas LCA developed from merely energy analysis …
This paper reviews estimates of food related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the global, regional and national levels, highlighting both …
Despite the large number of studies examining the impact of cage systems on Ca and P nutrition,data are limited on …
The global pattern of expanding urban centers and increasing agricultural intensity is leading to more frequent interactions between air pollution …
An experiment was carried out to determine melamine residual levels in eggs by feeding laying hens 200 or 1,000 mg …
The first International Technical Conference on Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, took place from 3 to 7 September, 2007, in Interlaken, Switzerland. The main achievement of the Conference was the adoption of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources, the …
The Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources was adopted by 109 countries in Interlaken, in September 2007. It …
The UK Farmers Club Journal recently published an overview of the presentation given by Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, at …
The aim of the present work was to investigate the effects of eggs consumed for lunch on satiety, satiation and …
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 …