Animal Welfare 3.4 Flashcards
Why is intensive farming less ethical than free range farming?
Intensive farming is less ethical than free range farming due to poorer animal welfare.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of free range?
Free range requires more land and is more labour intensive but can be sold at a higher price and animals have a better quality of life.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of intensive farming?
Intensive farming often creates conditions of poor animal welfare but is often more
cost effective, generating higher profit as costs are low.
What are the behavioural indicators of poor animals welfare?
Behavioural indicators of poor animal welfare are stereotypy, misdirected behaviour, failure in sexual or parental behaviour and altered levels of activity.
What are the names for an animal with very low activity and animal with very high activity?
Very low (apathy) or very high (hysteria) levels of activity.
What are the five freedoms of animal welfare?
Freedom from thirst, hunger and malnutrition, freedom from discomfort and exposure, freedom from pain, injury, and disease, freedom from fear and distress, freedom to express normal behaviour.
