One Welfare Flashcards
Define One Welfare
The wellbeing of all life and the living environment must be addressed within a single biological and ethical ecosystem.
What are the three pillars that one welfare is based on?
- Animal welfare
- Human wellbeing
- Environmental sustainability
What are the three overlapping concepts of animal welfare?
- Physical (state/functionality).
- Psychological/mental (affective).
- Natural behaviours (natural state).
5 Domains to welfare:
- nutrition
- physical environment
- health
- behavioural interactions
- mental state/experiences
= overall welfare
What is the long term welfare goal?
Ongoing incremental gains
Define welfare:
The state of body and mind and the extent to which their nature can be satisfied
Define ethics:
What humans think welfare ought to be (anthropocentric)
What is animal sentience
An animal’s capacity to experience feelings and sensations
What is a psychological risk?
A risk to the health or safety of a worker or other person
How do we manage psychological hazards? (4)
- identify
- assess
- control
- review
What is the psychosocial environment in the vet industry?
- Mental/physical health
- Practice “culture”
- Expectations:
- Community AKA “Social license to operate”
- Professional and legislative
- Ethical and legislative
Clinical = ____, regulatory = _____
controlled; uncontrolled
What are the advantages of One Welfare?
- Governs adoption of animals (to qualify, any intervention or resolution must support all 3 pillars
- Collaborative (allows representation by all relevant stakeholders)
- Collective expertise can facilitate innovation.
- Welfare-based considerations can be integrated into other frameworks
Limitations of One Welfare:
- Difficulty implementing complex solutions
- Often problematic to incorporate animal welfare initiatives into sustainability agendas
- Intensive animal production/clinical veterinary practice
- Acknowledgement of conflicting interests and the critical assessment of future limitations
One Welfare Challenges from a Clinical context:
- Welfare considerations vs clinical outcomes
- Ethical situations in Clinical Practice
- Professional autonomy in a corporate environment
- Veterinarians/technicians still considered individual actor(s) despite corporate involvement.
- Ethical reasoning does not improve with experience
Challenges in a Regulatory Environment:
- Personnel
- Unpredictable and often evolving environments
- Confronting situations
- Psychosocial hazards (compassion fatigue)
- Stakeholders
Link between animal welfare, human wellbeing and environmental wellness.
Deeply interconnected and interdependent.
E.g. - Animal welfare practices reduce animal and human public health risks
Animal welfare addresses:
- Regulation of transport of livestock
- Clinical guidelines of standards of care
Improving human wellbeing in relation to animals includes: (2)
- Psychosocial awareness training
- Using animal-assisted therapy to improve mental health
Environmental sustainability includes:
- Agricultural runoff into watercourses and stakeholder engagement
- Improved governance of clinical antibiotic use
What is a social licence to operate?
The continuous endorsement of individual, industrial, or professional activities, practices, and procedures by employees, stakeholders, and the broader community
How can we apply One Welfare to real life scenarios?
Identify the interconnectedness between human, animal, and environmental well-being, and then develop a plan that addresses all three aspects
