The Use of Electro-immobilisation on Live Farm Animals in Ireland a Short Report by Sub-committee to the Scientific Advisory Committee on Animal Health and Welfare

Progress in purebred dog health since the Bateson report of 2010.

Just occasionally, a landmark event triggers lasting animal welfare change. So it was for farm animal welfare with a book called Animal Machines published in 1964 by Ruth Harrison (Harrison, 1964). The book alerted the general public to the suffering of intensively farmed calves and chickens and prompted the Brambell Report that developed a list of five freedoms for farmed animals and prompted ...

I-17: Recent Developments in Animal Welfare Sciencee

The methodology for the scientific assessment of animal welfare has developed rapidly in recent years and has become a major scientific discipline. The concepts of welfare, need, stress, health, pain, emotion and feeling are now clarified. In teaching, legislation and practical work referring to animal welfare, a clear definition that can be related to other concepts is needed. The welfare of a...

The Role and Evolution of Independent Government Advisory Committees: The New Zealand Experience from 1985 to 2005

In the New Zealand national animal welfare infrastructure, the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC), the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) and the Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART) all play important and discrete roles in ensuring that the New Zealand government receives independent, broadly-based advice ...

Farm Animal Welfare Committee (2014). Evidence and the Welfare of Farmed Animals Part 1: The Evidence Base: Farm Animal Welfare Committee. Defra Farm Animal Welfare Committee

I-16: The Evolution of Morality and Implications for Animal Usage

The propensity to show moral behaviour has evolved in all animals living in complex societies as it promotes social stability. All major religions provide a structure for a moral code. The code is valuable in the societies where the religions have influence. The most important aspects of morality are the same in all countries. Because of their moral code, people consider that they have obligati...