Animal Welfare Act

ns based on transparent, comparable welfare metrics. Interspecific Scaling The Welfare Footprint Framework (WFF) uses a universal metric—time spent in affective states of varying intensities—to quantify welfare impacts. Because affective…

…Furthermore, this multimodal approach avoids campaigns promoting improved welfare of farmed animals the administration by farmers of centrally acting drugs such and is an important market risk management intervention as opiates to…

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Oral presentation Open Access Animal Welfare Aspects of Preventing Boar Taint Mette Giersing*, Jan Ladewig and Björn Forkman Address: Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark * Corresponding author from Prevention of Boar Taint in Pig Production: The 19th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation Gardermoen, Norway. 21–22 November 2005 Published: 7 August 2006 <supplement> <title> <p>Prevention of Boar Taint in Pig Production: The 19th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation</p> </title> <note>Meeting abstracts</note> <url>http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/files/pdf/1751-0147-48-S1-full.pdf</url> </supplement> Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2006, 48(Suppl 1):S3 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-48-S1-S3 © 2006 Giersing et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Introduction Surgical castration Since boar taint is connected to testicular hormones and Surgical castration without anaesthesia is painful, as sexual maturity, surgical castration has for centuries been shown by the acute physiological responses (increased the method employed to prevent taint in meat from male Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal-responses and protein c- pigs, as well as to obtain more docile pigs. However, since fos expression in spinal neurons), as well as by vocalisa- the castration is performed without anaesthesia, it is pain- tion and behaviour during and immediately after the ful for the pig and therefore poses a serious welfare prob- operation. The frequency and duration of high-frequency lem. With growing focus on animal welfare in animal calls points towards the extraction of the testes and the production, surgical castration without anaesthesia and severing of the spermatic cords as

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Oral presentation Open Access Animal Welfare Aspects of Preventing Boar Taint Mette Giersing*, Jan Ladewig and Björn Forkman Address: Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark * Corresponding author from Prevention of Boar Taint in Pig Production: The 19th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation Gardermoen, Norway. 21–22 November 2005 Published: 7 August 2006 <supplement> <title> <p>Prevention of Boar Taint in Pig Production: The 19th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation</p> </title> <note>Meeting abstracts</note> <url>http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/files/pdf/1751-0147-48-S1-full.pdf</url> </supplement> Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2006, 48(Suppl 1):S3 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-48-S1-S3 © 2006 Giersing et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Introduction Surgical castration Since boar taint is connected to testicular hormones and Surgical castration without anaesthesia is painful, as sexual maturity, surgical castration has for centuries been shown by the acute physiological responses (increased the method employed to prevent taint in meat from male Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal-responses and protein c- pigs, as well as to obtain more docile pigs. However, since fos expression in spinal neurons), as well as by vocalisa- the castration is performed without anaesthesia, it is pain- tion and behaviour during and immediately after the ful for the pig and therefore poses a serious welfare prob- operation. The frequency and duration of high-frequency lem. With growing focus on animal welfare in animal calls points towards the extraction of the testes and the production, surgical castration without anaesthesia and severing of the spermatic cords as

…reduces pain and enhances animal GnRH can cause infertility, gonadal atrophy, and changes in meat quality welfare. GnRH-immunocastration is considered relatively safe by directly or indirectly acting of testosterone (63). alternative…

…GST Legislation; "GST Legislation" means A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 and related legislation passed by the Federal Government; "Indication" means a specific animal welfare use-case or

…Library P, editor Canberra, ACT: Department 16. Prat NJ, Herzig MC, Kreyer S, Montgomery RK, Parida BK, Linden of Parliamentary Services, Parliament of Australia (2020). Available online at: K, et al. Platelet…

…Veterinary Ethical Responsibilities and Animal Welfare Issues in Everyday Practice. Animals (Basel) 2018, 8, 15. [CrossRef] [PubMed] 13. OIE. OIE Global Animal Welfare Strategy. Available online: https://www.oie.int/en/animal…