Adverse impact of industrial animal agriculture on the health and welfare of farmed animals

作     者：Joyce D’SILVA 

作者机构：Compassion in World FarmingPetersfieldHampshireUK 

出 版 物：《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2006年第1卷第1期

页      面：53-58页

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学科分类：0905[农学-畜牧学] 09[农学] 

主　　题：animal welfare intensive animal husbandry selective breeding stereotypic behavior 

摘      要：Industrial animal agriculture is grounded in the concept of maximizing productivity and *** breeding for maximum productivity in one characteristic of the animal(*** yield in cows,or breast meat in broiler chickens)has resulted in genotypes and phenotypes that may predispose the animals to poor health and *** conditions in which these individuals are kept may also frustrate many inherited behaviors that they are strongly motivated to *** order to curb the resulting harmful aberrant behaviors,such as feather-pecking in chickens,we sometimes resort to mutilating the *** many places chickens are routinely de-beaked by means of a hot metal *** in World Farming(an international organization that promotes the humane treatment of farm animals)believes that it is unethical to treat sentient beings in such *** have a duty to respect farm animals’sentience by providing them with housing conditions that take their needs and wants into account,and by reverting to the use of dual-purpose,slower-growing breeds that have the potential for good *** to current farming practices are available,and we owe it to the animals,and to our consciences,to pursue them.