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Milking It for All It’s Worth: Unpalatable Practices, Dairy Cows and Veterinary Work?
Interviews with 33 veterinarians working with cows found that although vets have a sense of obligation to care for the animals they work with, financial incentives ultimately come out on top.
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Animals in Transport
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More DetailsPair Housing of Dairy Calves and Age at Pairing: Effects on Weaning Stress, Health, Production and Social Networks
In Somerset, UK, calves were separated from their mothers after calving, reflecting a common operating procedure, and randomly placed into one of three treatments on day five: individually housed from day five, pair housed from day five, or pair housing beginning on day 28 onward.
More DetailsDeveloping Health and Environmental Warning Messages about Red Meat: An Online Experiment
Health warning messages were perceived as more effective by participants than environmental warning messages in discouraging them from eating red meat.
More DetailsAnnual Global Per Capita Fluid Milk Consumption
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Government of Canada, Animal Industry Division, Market Information Section) compiles data on global milk consumption from Statistics Canada and the International Dairy Federation.
More DetailsGlobal Trends in Antimicrobial Use in Aquaculture
Antimicrobial use in aquaculture for the year 2030 was estimated to increase by 33% globally compared to 2017, with the Asia-Pacific region having the highest estimated and actual antimicrobial use in those respective years.
More DetailsFAO Data for Poultry Meat Production Evolution, 1961-2020 (example from Our World in Data)
The FAO provides data on crop and livestock production for over 245 member countries. Using this data, Our World in Data presents the evolution of the production of meat from chickens from 1961 to 2022.
More DetailsAmicus Curiae Brief of the Canadian Pork Council Supporting the Supreme Court Review of Proposition 12
The Canadian Pork Council argues that Proposition 12 will disrupt international commerce, impose significant additional costs on the Canadian pork industry, and override existing Canadian animal welfare standards.
More DetailsKeeping Invertebrate Research Ethical in a Landscape of Shifting Public Opinion
Invertebrate animals are used widely across research fields, yet unlike vertebrates, there are no consistent ethical standards around their use in science. Crustaceans (e.g., crab, lobster) and cephalopods (e.g., octopus, squid) have been granted some ethical protections to reduce suffering, but there is little consideration for invertebrates apart from these (such as insects, snails, sponges, etc.).
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Impacts of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations on Local Communities
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Animals in Transport
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