Unit 3 Key area 4

Question 1

Write notes on free range farming vs intensive farming?

Answer 1

• Intensive farming is less ethical than free range farming because it has poorer conditions of animal welfare.
• In free range farming more land is required
• In free range farming you can sell your land at a higher price
• In free range farming animals have better living conditions
• Intensive farming produces conditions of poor animal welfare often however is more cost effective and more profitable as costs of intensive farming are lower.

Question 2

State the indicators of poor animal welfare?

Answer 2

• Stereotypy
• Misdirected behavior
• Failure in sexual or parental behavior
• Altered levels of activity (high levels of activity being hystria, low levels of activity being called apathy)