Understanding farmersâ values

Carolien de Lauwere; Sabine de Rooij; Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

Understanding farmersâ values

in Sustainable food production and ethics

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Carolien de Lauwere

Carolien de Lauwere ¹Agricultural Economics Institute of Wageningen UR, Location Leeuwenborch, P.O. Box 35, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands, carolien.delauwere@wur.nl

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Sabine de Rooij

Sabine de Rooij ²Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

Jan Douwe van der Ploeg ²Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Seiten:: 198â203

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086866168_033

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This paper deals with the differentiated approaches by means of which pig breeders and dairy farmers try to operate in the highly complex contradictory and contested arena of animal welfare. An empirical and mainly explorative sociological study among 41 pig and dairy farmers was carried out to give insight into farmersâ values in relation to animal welfare, sustainability and biotechnology. The study is part of a larger project, which aims to bridge the gap between farmers and society by making farmersâ values more explicit in the public debate on issues as animal welfare. As a first step, in depth - sometimes paired - interviews were hold with a varied group of male and female farmers. Farmersâ standards for animal welfare vary from âmeeting minimum legislationâ and âgood health and good production levelsâ to âthe ability to express species specific behaviourâ and ârespect for the intrinsic value of an animalâ. Farmers refer to the significance of different dimensions of sustainable farming; nonetheless, the majority stresses the importance of âeconomic resultsâ. Many farmers also consider food safety as a key responsibility (a social aspect). Their judgement of ecological aspects varies: from very important to having no priority. Conventional farmers tend to emphasize more on social wellbeing at micro level, organic farmers on ecological aspects of sustainability and on social responsibility at macro level. Farmers appear to be rather unanimous about the use of animal biotechnology: although animals or their organs may be used for human purposes one should be very careful with genetic modification (and rather not use it) because of unknown and possible risky consequences for human beings and the natural world.

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Sustainable food production and ethics

ISBN:: 9789086866168

Verleger:: Wageningen Academic

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 30 Oct 2007

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