Reprint

Human and Animal Sensitivity: How Stock-People and Consumer Perception Can Affect Animal Welfare

Edited by
August 2019
234 pages
  • ISBN978-3-03921-261-3 (Paperback)
  • ISBN978-3-03921-262-0 (PDF)

This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Human and Animal Sensitivity: How Stock-People and Consumer Perception Can Affect Animal Welfare that was published in

Biology & Life Sciences
Summary
This book presents cross-discipline studies covering aspects ranging from animal science to social/consumer sciences and psychology, with the aim to collect and disseminate information promoting the continuous enhancement of animal welfare by improving stakeholders’ perception of animal welfare. Although animal welfare is about how the animals perceive the surrounding environment, the actual welfare of the animals is dependent on how the stakeholders perceive and weigh animal welfare. The stakeholders can, either directly (i.e., through stock-people interaction with the animals) or indirectly (e.g., when retailers and consumers are willing to pay more for high welfare animal-based products), affect the way animals are kept and handled.
Format
  • Paperback
License
© 2019 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND licence
Keywords
veterinary student; animal ethics; pain perception; animal; animal welfare; Animal welfare; husbandry practices; lambs; pain; sheep farmers; perception; agreement; aggression; animal welfare; desensitization; perception; pigs; animal welfare; young adult; animal attitudes; children; farm animals; animal welfare; education; technology; animal welfare; Asia; knowledge; slaughter; transport; training; animal welfare; benefit; profit; human health; Asia; livestock; farmer perception; citizen perception; qualitative research; free elicitation narrative interviews; animal welfare; consumer; willingness to pay; pig; castration; immunocastration; information; survey; human-animal relationship; fear; laying hen; stockpeople attitudes; stockperson behaviour; egg farm; albumen corticosterone; welfare; animal welfare; stakeholder perception; text mining; horse; donkey; goat; sheep; turkey; farm animal welfare (FAW); willingness to pay; food safety concerns; ethical concerns; perceived consumer effectiveness; broiler; dairy buffalo; human-animal relationship; animal behavior; test-retest reliability; avoidance distance; milk production; animal welfare; animal welfare; stunning; religious slaughter; veterinary students; Halal meat; racehorse welfare; staff shortages; horse–human relationship; standards of care; employee relations; consumer demand; economics; farm animal welfare; producer perspective