ionally, this document serves as the foundation for the trademark registration process for the term "Welfare Footprint™". The registration of "Welfare Footprint™" as a trademark is intended to ensure that anyone employing the term must adhere to the established scientific methodology established by the WFF and transparency standards, thereby maintaining its integrity and comparability across different contexts and preventing misrepresentation of welfare impacts. 3 Innovative Tools and Metrics Pain-Track and Pleasure-Track Notation Systems ● Visual frameworks for describing negative (Pain-Track; [3,4]) and positive (Pleasure-Track; [5]) affective states over time. These systems allow for a structured representation of the intensity and duration of affective experiences. Cumulative Pain and Cumulative Pleasure Metrics ● Quantitative measures that integrate the total time animals spend in different affective intensities as a result of one or more affective experiences, over a target time period. These metrics allow for a comprehensive evaluation of welfare, making it possible to compare welfare across conditions, practices, systems and species [3–5]. Hierarchical Framework for the Description of Living Circumstances ● A structured model that categorizes the Life-Fates, Life Phases, and Circumstances that animals experience, which will give rise to several biological outcomes and affective experiences. This ensures a comprehensive welfare assessment, capturing all critical conditions animals are exposed to over their lives. Welfare Footprint Calculation ● A standardized methodology that integrates data from various analytical components—zootechnical, veterinary, epidemiological, and economic—to estimate Cumulative Pain and Pleasure per unit of
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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…
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of whole male pigs, that can Hoffman, 2015). lead to chronic stress. For welfare, stress is perceived as For vaccination of male piglets against boar taint it can be an undesirable factor that affects health and behavior. use Improvac (made by Pfizer Ltd.) which is approved and Stress can be described as a situation of threatened licensed for the using in the EU. Some non EU countries homeostasis or perceived threatened homeostasis due like Australia, Brazil, Mexico and New Zealand also use to a short-term (acute) or long-term, mostly repeated Improvac (Tuyttens, 2011). Improvac is not a typical (chronic) stressor (Moberg, 2000). vaccine. The difference between improvac and other Some countries like England, Spain, Ireland, Netherlands vaccines is that a typical vaccines induce the production etc. have started to feed pigs to lower carcasses because of antibodies against a foreign pathogen while improvac the boar taint is very low at that time. Local farmers in these stimulates the production of antibodies against GnRH. countries have good expertise to manage such farms. When immunocastration was introduced as alternative Breeding of piglets needs to have good management methods to surgical castration, some customers were and housing conditions have to meet their specific skeptical. It was from the fear for residuals in meat needs (good staff, quality food with lot of nutrition, and unknown long-term consequences to consumer. optimal space) which is really important in lower weight Customers also expected that the use of vaccination categories. Breeding piglets to lower weight categories could become more expensive in final pricing. Customers as alternative method to surgical castration is a more were in two groups, first thought that immunocastration acceptable way