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The Sustainability of Cattle Production Systems
The welfare of animals used for food production is a key part of the sustainability of any system. However, animal welfare should be considered along with adverse effects on a wide range of aspects of human we...
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Author Correction: The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Stress and Welfare in the World
The major arguments presented in the book are summarised in this chapter. How can stress be evaluated and minimised and how can welfare be assessed in a scientific and objective way. When we have information a...
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Adaptation, Regulation, Sentience and Brain Control
In this chapter, the central focus is on the mechanisms used by animals to control their interactions with all aspects of their world. In order to understand what is stressful and what situations lead to good ...
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Stress and Welfare: History and Usage of Concepts
This chapter clarifies previous and current usage of the words in the title of this book. The ways in which the term stress has been used in physics, psychology, psychiatry and general biology are discussed in...
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Assessing Welfare: Long-Term Responses
This chapter provides an account of the responses of animals to long-term disturbances and positive experiences. Measures of good welfare may be direct or may involve experimental investigation such as that of...
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Ethics: Considering World Issues
In this chapter, the question considered is to how great a disturbance of homeostasis, or to what level of stimulation, should an individual be subjected? These impacts are partly a matter of biological judgem...
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One Welfare, One Health, One Stress: Humans and Other Animals
In this chapter, the need for scientific study of stress and welfare is explained. The imprecise use of terms, especially stress, is described and reasons for some of the problems in understanding the concepts...
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Limits to Adaptation
The mechanisms of adaptation and co** are considered in detail in this chapter. Firstly, how can stimuli vary in time, intensity and modality? The links between the nature of stimuli and the responses that c...
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Assessing Welfare: Short-Term Responses
This chapter provides an account of the responses of animals to short-term disturbances. The measures of welfare that are used when an individual encounters problems over a timescale of minutes or hours are so...
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Preference Studies and Welfare
In this chapter the use of preference studies to provide information relevant to the assessment of welfare is discussed. How do humans and non-humans allocate their time, energy and other resources and to wha...
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The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming
How we manage farming and food systems to meet rising demand is pivotal to the future of biodiversity. Extensive field data suggest that impacts on wild populations would be greatly reduced through boosting yi...
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International Animal Welfare Perspectives, Including Whaling and Inhumane Seal Killing as a W.T.O. Public Morality Issue
Most people consider that we have moral obligations to other people, to animals of other species and to ensuring the sustainability of production systems. A system or procedure is sustainable if it is acceptab...
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Open AccessKey considerations for the experimental training and evaluation of cancer odour detection dogs: lessons learnt from a double-blind, controlled trial of prostate cancer detection
Cancer detection using sniffer dogs is a potential technology for clinical use and research. Our study sought to determine whether dogs could be trained to discriminate the odour of urine from men with prostat...
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A History of Animal Welfare Science
Human attitudes to animals have changed as non-humans have become more widely incorporated in the category of moral agents who deserve some respect. Parallels between the functioning of humans and non-humans h...
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Olfactory Communication Between Man and Other Animals
When an animal communicates with another, it transmits a signal in such a way that the sender usually benefits from the response of the receiver. In most situations involving humans and companion animals, the ...
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The effects of biotechnology on animal welfare
Some effects of biotechnology on animals are obvious but many require careful scientific study to evaluate properly. This chapter is about what should be done - for little has been done.
