Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Reconciling productivity and welfare in intensive pig husbandry: a challenge for the year 2000.
- Journal:
- Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics)
- Year:
- 1994
- Authors:
- Robert, S & Martineau, G P
- Affiliation:
- Station de recherches de Lennoxville · Canada
Plain-English summary
This paper talks about how people are becoming more concerned about the welfare of pigs raised on farms, and how veterinarians are responding to these concerns. It looks at how raising pigs in large numbers can affect their ability to adapt and the stress they experience, which can lead to behavioral and health problems. The authors emphasize the need to combine good animal welfare practices with pig farming, suggesting that this should be included in training for farmers and veterinarians. Overall, they stress that improving pig welfare is essential for better farming practices.
Abstract
In the first part of this paper, the authors discuss the growing concern of consumers for farm animal welfare, and the attitude adopted by veterinarians to cope with this new and more humanitarian concept of intensive husbandry. The effects of intensification of pig production on the ability of pigs to adapt, and the behavioural, husbandry and health consequences of the principal stress factors in pig rearing are reviewed and illustrated by examples from recent research. In conclusion, the authors discuss the importance of constructive integration of welfare into pig production, in training courses and in actual application.
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