3.4 animal welfare Flashcards
Costs of providing livestock with good conditions
Money must be used to imported environment in which the livestock live.
Ethics of giving livestock better conditions
Moral values which ensure that humans allow animals and livestock to live without harm or neglect.
Benefits of providing good conditions to livestock
Livestock may breed more successfully, generate higher quality of food, and grow better.
RSPCA five freedoms
Freedom from hunger and thirst
Freedom from discomfort
Freedom from pain, injury and disease.
Freedom to express normal behaviour
Freedom from fear and distress.
Freedom from fear and distress
Giving animals conditions and treatment which prevent mental suffering.
Freedom from hunger and thirst
Providing a continuous supply of water and food to the animal.
Freedom of pain injury and disease
Giving animals treatment from a vet when sick or injured
Freedom to express normal behaviour
Animals must be given correct space, proper facilities and company from other animals of their own kind.
Freedom from discomfort
Animals should be provided with the correct environment and a hospitable place to rest.
Animal welfare RSPCA welfare
Animals should be provided with sufficient water and food, a comfortable place to stay, a vet if sick or injured, proper facilities and environment to behave normally and be caused no distress.
Animal welfare RSPCA welfare
Animals should be provided with sufficient water and food, a comfortable place to stay, a vet if sick or injured, proper facilities and environment to behave normally and be caused no distress.
Intensive farming characteristics
Small compact land area
Low levels of labour
Low selling price due to low quality
Poor animal welfare
Free range farming characteristics
Large area of land
High labour use high selling price due to higher quality
Good animal wellfare
Behavioural indicators of poor animal welfare
Stereotypy
Misdirected behaviour
Failure at sexual and parental behaviours
Altered activity levels.
Stereotypy definition
Where an animal shows repetitive displays of distress in an enclosure.
Examples of stereotypy
Pacing up and down
Biting objects
Excessive grooming
Misdirected behaviours def
Where an animal carries out an action which is inappropriate and harmful to itself.
Examples of misdirected behaviours
Birds plucking out their feathers
Excessive gnawing at objects which harms the animal.
Failure in sexual behaviour
Where an animal stops being able to mate or stops undergoing mating behaviour.
Failure at parental duties
Abandoning young
Acting aggressively towards young
Stealing other young from other parents.
Failure at parental duties
Abandoning young
Acting aggressively towards young
Stealing other young from other parents.
Two types of altered levels of activity
Apathy
Hysteria
Apathy
Where an animal displays low levels of energy, lying sitting or standing in the same position for prolonged periods of time.
Hysteria
Where an animal displays high levels of energy, moving around lots more and in a constant state of panic.
