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Summarises animal welfare concerns associated with commercial and recreational fishing, and fish farming. Topics include the ability of fish to feel pain, problems such as birth defects caused by genetic selection of farmed fish for rapid growth rates, barren and crowded fish farm environments, and stresses incurred during handling, transportation and slaughter. The slaughter of fish and crusta...
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Summarises animal welfare concerns associated with the farming of sheep and goats, in both developed and developing world environments. These include lameness, mastitis (inflammation of the udder) and painful husbandry procedures such as castration, tail-docking and mulesing. Animal welfare assessment is also reviewed.
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BBC1_Panorama, A Cow's Life The True Cost of Milk 14Feb22
Most of us drink cow’s milk, but are we paying enough for it? Panorama investigates the dairy industry to find out whether animal welfare is being compromised in the drive to keep milk prices low. The film features disturbing undercover footage of farmworkers abusing cows, while reporter Daniel Foggo speaks to farmers and vets about the...
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Summarises animal welfare concerns associated with the farming of dairy and beef cattle, and veal and bobby calves. These includes problems associated with genetic selection for very high milk productivity, and painful husbandry procedures.
05:35
Billions of pigs are slaughtered for food annually, and high concentration CO2 within controlled atmospheric stunning (CAS) systems is one of the most common methods used to stun pigs unconscious at the time of slaughter. However, a high concentration of CO2 is aversive, and creates severe animal welfare problems for pigs. Numerous alternative stunning methods have been proposed, including iner...
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Summarises the animal welfare problems experienced by sow confined within farrowing crates. Introduces my 2018 report 'Uncaging New Zealand's Sows: Scrutinising New Zealand’s Farrowing Crates': https://www.andrewknight.info/reports/sow-farrowing-crates-new-zealand/
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Summarises animal welfare concerns associated with the farming of pigs. These include spatial and social restriction within barren environments, preventing the fulfilment of many natural behaviours pigs are highly motivated to perform, such as nest building. Painful husbandry procedures without adequate painkillers are another important welfare concern.
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Our A-Law Edinburgh Student Chapter held an event on May 24th, titled 'UK Chicken Welfare: What should we know? What do we need to consider?' The event featured speakers Professor Andrew Knight and Danielle Duffield, discussing chicken welfare and the current legal framework governing their protection.
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Chickens may be the third most common pet in many countries; however, little is known about their welfare status or the human–chicken relationship. Hence, using 2000+ questionnaire responses, this study collected the most comprehensive and holistic dataset to date on owners’ care-taking practices, owners’ attitudes towards chickens, the human–chicken relationship, and challenges regarding chick...
04:29
Most new and emerging human diseases come from animal populations, and among these, viruses - especially influenza viruses - are the most dangerous. Viral transmission and mortality can be very high. Influenza pandemics have previously killed many millions of people. Pigs and poultry are readily infected and can transmit disease to people. Intensive pig and poultry farms include large animal gr...
05:35
A quick introduction to our report examining the animal welfare problems and disease risks created by intensive meat chicken farming, including the risks of future global pandemics. It also highlights action supermarkets can take to address these risks.
The full report is: Open Cages, Knight A and Wiebers D (2020). A British Pandemic: the Cruelty and Danger of Supermarket Chicken. UK: Open Ca...
04:12
Over 70 billion chickens are slaughtered globally each year. Almost all are meat breeds, typically housed in very large barns with a litter floor. Recently however, modern cage systems have been developed which provide very limited space and stack several tiers high. There is debate about the impacts of such modern cage systems on chicken welfare. Accordingly, we systematically reviewed studies...