3.4 Animal Welfare Flashcards

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ethics of intensive farming

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  • intensive farming is less ethical than free range farming
  • this is due to poorer animal welfare
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costs of intensive farming

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  • intensive farming is cost effective
  • this generates higher profits, since costs are low
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ethics of free range farming

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  • animals have a better quality of life
  • this is due to more space and freedom
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costs of free range farming

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  • free range farming requires more land and is more labour intensive, which increases costs
  • however, products can be sold at a higher price
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behavioural indicators of poor welfare (5)

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  • stereotypy
  • misdirected behaviour
  • failure in sexual behaviour
    failure in parental behaviour
  • altered levels of activity (apathy/hysteria)
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stereotypy

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  • a behavioural pattern of repetitive behaviour
  • eg. pacing, head shaking and rocking side to side
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misdirected behaviour

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  • when a normal behaviour is directed at the animal itself, its environment, or others
  • eg. birds over-plucking their feathers
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failure in sexual behaviour

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animals may stop demonstrating mating behaviours

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failure in parental behaviour

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  • females may abandon offspring, act aggressively towards them or even kill and eat them
  • some may steal other female’s young
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altered levels of activity

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  • apathy: low levels of activity eg. lying in the same position for long periods of time
  • hysteria: high levels of activity eg. lots of movement or being easily alarmed
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