Food production ethics

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itek, J.; Candek-Potokar, M.; Djekic, I.; Getya, A.; Guerrero, L.; Ivanova, S.; Kusec, G.; Nakov, D.; et al. Attitudes and beliefs of eastern european consumers towards animal welfare. Animals 2020, 10, 17. [CrossRef] [PubMed] © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

…These are animals that, while not the primary focus of production, are involved in the system—such as cleaner fish used in salmon aquaculture or animals used as feed, bred as food…

…addition to following current procedures on animal and human This study in Cameroon provides the quantitative assessment ethics processes in Cameroon, the authors communicated with confirming that TS is efficacious in hastening…

…This research was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL, https://www.bmel.de) based on a decision of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, granted…

f produce from pigs castrated without analgesia in others. Conflicts such as these are set to escalate in the coming years. Animal welfare is becoming increasingly consumer driven. Many retailers are incorporating strict animal welfare standards into their corporate social responsibility policies, and, in some cases requiring that their suppliers are audited to ensure that their standards are met. The European Commission is undertaking The Welfare Quality® project to develop European standards for on-farm welfare assessment and product labelling systems. This is designed to link informed animal product consumption to animal husbandry practices on the farm and offer market advantages to producers with the highest welfare standards. This means that in the future, producers will need to meet the welfare obligations of the markets into which their produce goes, as well as the legal requirements in their own countries. Whilst the ultimate long term solution is to breed animals that do not require these procedures, or to find painless alternative practices, this will take time and a significant research effort in most cases. In the meantime, there is an urgent need to find a more immediate way to alleviate welfare concerns. This can be achieved by developing effective analgesia for on farm use, to allow surgical procedures in livestock to be performed as humanely as surgical procedures in domestic animals and humans, while long term solutions are pursued and implemented. To achieve this, significant constraints must be overcome to ensure that analgesic products are safe, practical and affordable enough to be viable for farming operations in Australia. This is likely to require a step-wise approach. Nevertheless, recent research and developments indicate that this can be