Chilean consumers’ perception about animal welfare in dairy production systems: short communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Einar Vargas-Bello-Pérez ◽  
José Luis Riveros ◽  
Claus Köbrich ◽  
Pamela Alejandra Álvarez-Melo ◽  
Joop Lensink
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Dairy Product ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Dairy Production ◽  
Quality Attribute ◽  
Pet Ownership ◽  
Animal Products

Information on animal welfare and ways that farm animals are kept has gained more and more importance with regard to the consumers’ behaviour and expectations when buying food products. In certain countries, animal welfare is considered as an important extrinsic quality attribute of animal products. Until now, hardly any studies have been conducted in Latin America on consumers’ expectations and knowledge regarding animal welfare aspects of the products they buy. The objective of this study was to determine the knowledge and expectations of consumers in Chile regarding information about dairy production systems and animal welfare, and the main aspects they considered when buying dairy products. A face-to-face interview was conducted on a sample of 501 persons from the Province of Santiago, Chile. The survey was conducted in major supermarkets from 15 different municipalities of Santiago in November and December 2012. The main aspects considered before purchasing dairy products were fat content (30%) and price (26%). It was shown that 66.9% of the participants associated the term animal welfare with responsible pet ownership, 12.4% to farm animal care, 11.6% to vegetarianism and 9.2% to the freedom and nature of animals. Age, educational level and family income were related (P < 0.001) to responsible pet ownership whereas gender did not relate to the concept of animal welfare. From the total surveyed participants, 73% were interested in receiving more information about animal welfare; 62% of these were women between 18 and 30 years of age. Information about the conditions of milk production and animal welfare were considered to be an important aspect to be included in dairy products’ labelling for 86% of the participants. Also, 68% of the participants declared a willingness to pay more for an animal welfare friendly dairy product. Data from this study may be useful in order to include animal welfare as an extrinsic quality attribute of dairy products in Chile and to define a market-oriented strategy including animal welfare.

Characterisation of smallholder dairy production systems using animal welfare and milk quality

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 1429-1435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettie S. Kawonga ◽  
Mizeck G. G. Chagunda ◽  
Timothy N. Gondwe ◽  
Sera R. Gondwe ◽  
James W. Banda
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Milk Quality ◽  
Dairy Production ◽  
Smallholder Dairy ◽  
Smallholder Dairy Production

scholarly journals Farm Animal Welfare and Handling in the Tropics: The Ethiopia Case

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Bimrew Asmare
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Farm Animal ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Farm Animal Welfare ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ethical Basis

The issue of farm animal welfare has become increasingly of essence in many countries these days. Farm animal welfare concerns are expressed about the conditions in which farm animals are kept and management practices, particularly in systems where animals are kept in confinement for most of their lives, feed methods, health care, and expression of normal behaviors. The use of an ethical basis for animal welfare standards requires some generally accepted principles on how animals should be treated and used by humans. Animals have enormous capacity to feel a huge range of emotions, to learn from their experiences, to adapt to challenges, and to suffer when their needs are either ignored or disrespected. It is now time, in the evolution of the relationship between humans and animals, to move forward with this knowledge and take real action to improve the lives of farm animals. The use of behavioral principles should improve efficiency of livestock handling and reduce stress on animals. Changing public opinion about the importance of good animal welfare and applying legislative actions will be important in animal production systems especially in developing countries where the poor animal welfare is immense and production management is below substandards.

scholarly journals The Impact of New Products on Ethical Beliefs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Vivalt ◽  
Bobbie Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
New Products ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Surprising Result ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Ethical Beliefs ◽  
Standard Models ◽  
The Impact

We test whether the availability of consumer goods affects ethical beliefs. Several new firms are developing "clean" animal products: lab-grown meat, egg, and dairy products that do not rely on traditional animal agriculture. Standard models of cognitive dissonance would predict that the mere availability of such a product would lead consumers to put more moral weight on the environment and farm animals. We do not initially observe this and in fact find that information about clean meat may even negatively affect beliefs. A second experiment in which we use priming to randomly manipulate how positively respondents view the product explains the surprising result: due to concerns about the "unnaturalness" of the product, many do not find it an acceptable substitute, however, those who perceive the product positively do change their ethical beliefs.

Responses to Nutrients in farm animals: implications for product quality

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 ◽  
pp. 263-263
Author(s):  
J. F. Hocquette ◽  
S. Tesseraud ◽  
I. Cassar-Malek ◽  
C. Leroux
Keyword(s):  
Product Quality ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Metabolic Efficiency ◽  
Food Markets ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Body Level ◽  
Increasing Demand

In the context of increased globalisation and competitiveness, producers of animal products have been the most affected with considerable reductions in profit margins. Research on nutrition in farm animals is thus still needed to reduce the costs of production by increasing metabolic efficiency. To achieve this goal, the objective is always to control animal performance accurately by improved quantification of animal requirements and by precise feed evaluation. At the same time, the farming and agri-food sectors are faced with a general saturation of food markets in Europe and with an increasing demand by consumers for high-quality meat and dairy products. This has also led to specific research in nutrition which aims to optimise metabolic activity of muscle and mammary gland to produce meat and dairy products of the desirable composition. This paper aims to address this important question: how animal nutrition may help to optimise metabolic efficiency and product quality. Today this needs better knowledge of tissue and organ requirements and of nutrient fate within tissues and organs as well as of their contribution to the quality of animal products. Furthermore, in order to achieve this goal of greater understanding of animal response to nutrition, new concepts and techniques are available to decipher mechanisms that were impossible to address adequately a few years ago. In this connection, emerging approaches such as genomics and modelling provide the means for a better insight into the mechanisms which regulate metabolism at tissue or whole body level.

Association of Dietary Intake with the Transitions of Frailty among Japanese Community-Dwelling Older Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
R. Otsuka ◽  
S. Zhang ◽  
C. Tange ◽  
Y. Nishita ◽  
M. Tomida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Saturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Dairy Product ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Food Groups ◽  
Community Dwellers

Background: Frailty is a dynamic process, with frequent transitions between frailty, prefrailty, and robust statuses over time. The effect of dietary intake on frailty transitions is unknown. Objective: To examine the association between dietary intake and frailty transitions. Design: Survey-based retrospective analysis of the National Institute for Longevity Sciences-Longitudinal Study of Aging data. Setting: Areas neighboring the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Participants: We included 469 prefrail community dwellers aged 60–87 years who participated both in the baseline (2008–2010) and 2-year follow-up (2010–2012) surveys of the National Institute for Longevity Sciences-Longitudinal Study of Aging. Measurements: Transitions of frailty were categorized by changes in status from baseline to follow-up: “deterioration (prefrail to frail),” “persistence (persistent prefrail),” and “reversal (prefrail to robust).” Estimated dietary (nutrients and food) intakes assessed by 3-day dietary records in each frailty transition were analyzed with a multivariate-adjusted general linear model after adjusting for sex, age, education, family income, smoking, and chronic disease. Results: At the 2-year follow-up, 28%, 7%, and 65% of participants had robust, frail, and pre-frail status, respectively. Among 13 food groups, only milk and dairy product intake was positively associated with frailty reversal even after adjusting for all frailty criteria at baseline. Despite insignificant differences in the estimated mean intakes, the baseline intake of saturated fatty acids, potassium, and vitamin B1 tended to be the highest in the reversal group. The estimated mean (standard error) for milk and dairy product intake (g/day) was 79.1 (28.6), 129.3 (19.9), and 161.7 (21.7) for the deterioration, persistence, and reversal groups, respectively (P=0.0036, P-trend=0.0019). Conclusions: Daily consumption of dairy products may contribute to frailty reversal and frailty prevention among older community dwellers who consume small amounts of dairy products. Other food groups showed no association with frailty status transitions.

scholarly journals Dairy vs. beef production – expert views on welfare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roi Mandel ◽  
Marc B.M. Bracke ◽  
Christine J. Nicol ◽  
John A. Webster ◽  
Lorenz Gygax
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Beef Cows ◽  
Red Meat ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Dairy Production ◽  
Beef Production ◽  
Beef Calves ◽  
Beef Herds

AbstractConsumers’ views and concerns about the welfare of farm animals may play an important role in their decision to consume dairy, meat and/or plants as their primary protein source. As animals are killed prematurely in both dairy and beef industries, it is important to quantify and compare welfare compromise in these two sectors before the point of death. Seventy world-leading bovine welfare experts based in 23 countries, were asked to evaluate the likelihood of a bovine to experience 12 states of potential welfare concern, inspired by the Welfare Quality® protocol. The evaluation focused on the most common beef and dairy production systems in the experts’ country, and was carried out separately for dairy/beef calves raised for red-meat, dairy/beef calves raised for veal, dairy/beef calves raised as replacement, and for dairy/beef cows. The results show experts rated the overall likelihood of a negative welfare state (i.e. welfare risk) to be higher in animals from dairy herds than from beef herds, for all animal categories, regardless of whether they were used to produce milk, red-meat or veal. These findings suggest that consuming food products derived from common dairy production systems (dairy or meat), may be more harmful to the welfare of animals than consuming products derived from common beef production systems (i.e. from animals solely raised for their meat). Raising awareness about the linkage between dairy and meat production, and the toll of milk production on the welfare state of animals in the dairy industry, may encourage a more sustainable and responsible food consumption.

The changing nature of dairy production in Victoria, Australia: are we ready to handle the planning and development of large, intensive dairy operations?

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
Y. J. Williams ◽  
S. McDonald ◽  
S. J. Chaplin
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Dairy Production ◽  
State Planning ◽  
Codes Of Practice ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
Farm Category

Around the world, dairy production continues to intensify, with farmers increasing stocking rates, feeding more supplements, and transitioning into fully housed systems. Dairy production in Victoria is no exception and farmers are starting a move towards intensive (i.e. permanently housed) dairy operations. Challenges associated with these transformations have included difficulties, or failure, to obtain planning approval and public concern around the effect of intensive developments on environmental degradation, animal welfare and industry image. We examined current land-use planning provisions, environmental requirements, animal-welfare regulations, industry guidelines and codes of practice for their applicability and suitability to the implementation of intensive dairy-production operations, particularly large-scale ones, in Victoria, Australia. Our aim was to clearly identify factors that have the potential to hinder the growth and expansion of existing dairy-production systems into intensive operations, and the establishment of new intensive dairy enterprises. The majority of legislation examined posed no obstacles to the development of large-scale intensive dairy operations. New definitions for intensive livestock production and the inclusion of an intensive dairy-farm category in the State planning provisions will reduce current confusion across and within planning departments. A standard methodology to determine separation distances is required and a code for intensive dairy farming would greatly assist with the planning-approval process. Many advisory publications fall short when applied to intensive dairy operations as they are currently written for pasture-based farms with limited infrastructure for regularly feeding or housing large herds of &gt;700 cows.

scholarly journals Consumers’ Concerns and Perceptions of Farm Animal Welfare

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta E. Alonso ◽  
José R. González-Montaña ◽  
Juan M. Lomillos
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Farm Animal ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Minimum Standard ◽  
Farm Animal Welfare ◽  
Adequate Information ◽  
Clear Information ◽  
Complex Subject

In this paper, we explore the evolution of consumers’ perceptions and concerns about the effects that intensification of production systems could have on the welfare of farm animals. Despite the differences in definitions of animal welfare that make perceptions about this complex subject extremely variable, there is a growing perception that farm animal welfare should be protected and improved. There is an increasing appreciation of animal welfare parameters over other quality attributes, and animal-friendly products are considered healthier, safer, tastier, more hygienic, authentic, environmentally friendly, and traditional by many consumers. The willingness to pay for the increases in price that higher levels of farm animal welfare could produce could be promoted by means of adequate information about management and housing conditions of the different farming species. Welfare-friendly products that are properly labeled with clear information provided by an internationally accepted, transparent, and traceable monitoring system will increase consumers’ confidence in the food chain participants. Both consumers and citizens have the opportunity to improve the welfare of millions of farmed animals now and in the future, consumers by assuming their responsibility at the buying point, purchasing welfare-friendly products, and citizens by driving legislation to achieve some minimum standard of welfare conditions that could meet animals’ needs.

Farm animal welfare legislation in europe

1990 ◽  
Vol 1990 ◽  
pp. 8-8
Author(s):  
H E Carter
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Poultry Meat ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Farm Animal Welfare ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The Subject

There is mounting concern for the welfare of farm animals in all the countries of the European Community and the members states of the Council of Europe. The rapid increase in intensive management systems of poultry, pigs, cattle and fur-bearing animals has been the subject of heated debate in every European country. The publication of Ruth Harrison's book, Animal Machines, a quarter of a century ago, can now be seen as the starting point for the increasing demands for legislation to control what are seen to be new and unnecessarily restrictive ways of keeping farm animals. In the United Kingdom, as long ago as 1965, the Brambell Committee made recommendations that were largely ignored. Animal welfare societies increasingly called for legislation to control the situation. Society generally, on the other hand, welcomed the provision of cheap eggs, cheap poultry meat and relatively cheap dairy products.

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