Animal welfare components

Xavier Manteca; Antonio Velarde; Bryan Jones

Animal welfare components

In: Welfare of production animals: assessment and management of risks

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Xavier Manteca

Xavier Manteca ¹School of Veterinary Science, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; xavier.manteca@uab.cat

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Antonio Velarde

Antonio Velarde ²Animal Welfare, Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA), Spain

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Bryan Jones

Bryan Jones ³Animal Behaviour & Welfare Consultant, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Pages:: 61–77

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086866908_005

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Animal welfare can be defined in a number of different ways, but there is a growing consensus that whatever the definition, it has to include three elements: the emotional state of the animal, its biological functioning and its ability to show normal patterns of behaviour. These three elements are by no means contradictory; in fact they are closely interrelated. The Five Freedoms developed by the Farm Animal Welfare Council of the UK provided an elegant framework for doing this. These freedoms, which represent ideal states rather than actual standards for animal welfare, include: freedom from hunger and thirst, freedom from discomfort, freedom from pain, injury and disease, freedom to express normal behaviour, and freedom from fear and distress. More recently, the WelfareQualityR project built on and extended the Five Freedoms to four principles (good housing, good feeding, good health and appropriate behaviour). Each of these four principles comprises several criteria, with an overall total of 12 criteria. These 12 animal welfare criteria are discussed in this chapter as they provide a very useful framework for understanding the components of animal welfare. The next step is to establish reliable and practical ways of measuring the many components of welfare.

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Welfare of production animals: assessment and management of risks

Series: ECVPH Food safety assurance, Volume: 5

E-Book ISBN:: 9789086866908

Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 30 Oct 2009

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