Animal Welfare in Animal Agriculture: Husbandry, Stewardship, and Sustainability in Animal Production

Animal Welfare in Animal Agriculture: Husbandry, Stewardship, and Sustainability in Animal Production

Editor(s): Wilson G. Pond, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA; Fuller W. Bazer, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA; Bernard E. Rollin, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

ISBN: 9781439848425
Publication Date: December 06, 2011
Number of Pages: 333
Binding(s): Hardback

Features
• Takes a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the use of animals for food and fiber production and for biological products used in human and animal health
• Presents a variety of viewpoints of and approaches to animal welfare from a diverse group of distinguished scientists and animal welfare experts
• Summarizes the findings of the PEW Foundation Commission Report and contains a thorough discussion of the controversial aspects of this report
• Includes a conceptual and practical discussion of the environmental issues involved in industrial animal agriculture
• Covers the subject globally by discussing the multiple uses of animals in developing and developed nations and discusses both contemporary industrial and conventional small farm agriculture

Summary
Through a multidisciplinary approach, this book takes the reader on a journey through the complex maze of issues that surround animal welfare today. After providing historical background on industrialized agriculture, the text links current and historical uses of animals and our views toward them with the concept of sustainable agriculture, addressing the role that welfare plays in this subject. International contributors present their views on what constitutes genuine animal welfare and how it is attained. They discuss such topics as the environmental issues involved in industrial animal agriculture as well as the multiple uses of animals in developing and developed nations.

Contents

THE ROLE OF ANIMALS IN SOCIETY
Perspectives on Emergence of Contemporary Animal Agriculture in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Paul B. Thompson, Bernard E. Rollin, Stanley E. Curtis
Contributions of Farm Animals to Society: Food, Fiber, Leather, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Products, and Draft Power, Donald C. Beitz, R. Anne Pearson, Wilson G. Pond, Christian E. Newcomer
Contributions of Animals in Agricultural Research and in Service Functions for Individuals and in Other Specialized Activities, Duane E. Ullrey
TREATMENT OF ANIMALS
Socio-Ethical Concerns about Animal Agriculture: Review of the 2008 PEW Foundation Commission Report, Bernard E. Rollin, Robert Martin
Defining Animal Welfare: Varying Viewpoints and Approaches, Bernard E. Rollin, Donald M. Broom, Stanley E. Curtis, David Fraser, Gail Golab, Charles Arnot, Paul Shapiro, Paul B. Thompson
Implementing Effective Practices and Programs to Assess Animal Welfare, Temple Grandin, John McGlone
Animal Welfare: Synthesizing Contemporary Animal Agriculture Engineering and Animal Comfort and Social Responsibility, Bernard E. Rollin, John McGlone, Judith Capper, Kenneth E. Anderson, Terry Engle
SUSTAINABLE PLANT AND ANIMAL AGRICULTURE FOR ANIMAL WELL-BEING
Symbiosis of Plants, Animals, and Microbes, James Wells, Vincent Varel
Food Safety Issues in Animal Source Foods Related to Animal Health and Welfare, Steven Taylor, John Sofos
Environmental Issues in Contemporary Animal Agriculture, Fred Kirchenmann, John Phillips,
Contemporary Animal Agriculture: Rural Community Concerns in United States and Europe, David Andrews, Bernard Rollin
Crop Production for Sustainable Animal Agriculture, Fred Owens
Crop Residues and Other Feed Resources Inedible for Humans but Valuable for Animals, Greg Lardy
Welfare, Health, and Biological Efficiency of Animals through Genetics and Biotechnology, Fuller Bazer, Duane Kraemer, Robert Wall, Alan McHughen, June Medford