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Societal scrutiny of animal welfare in food production systems is intensifying. In the dairy sector, the impact of heat stress on cow productivity, health, and welfare is a growing global concern, particularly with increasing temperatures and weather variability predicted to become more extreme ( ...
Gilt selection has always been a critical task in the global pig industry. From local breeders within herd book farms to selection specialists within large integrated multisite producers, having a quality selection of incoming great-grand-parent, grand-parent, and parent animals is a core baseline ...
The (international) organization that manages the AWL may allow negotiation on specific country or user differences, and use it as a standard against which other labels can be calibrated or benchmarked. Moreover, they could even draft best practice guides on how retailers and governments could make ...
Pasture-based dairy systems aim to match feed demand with home-grown feed supply by maximizing the amount of pasture in the cows’ diet. This is achieved through concentrated (or ‘compact’) seasonal calving where cows are typically dried off together in autumn and calve in late winter/early spring ...
Farm animal production has undergone significant transformations in the last 60 years, associated with globalization, population growth, increasing affluence, and the resulting demand for animal products. Altogether, this has driven a significant growth in the global number of animals and ...
There is growing societal concern for farm animal welfare and interest in production conditions ( European Commission, 2022 ). In many countries, quality assurance labels have been established to communicate that products have been produced from animals reared on higher welfare-certified farms. In ...
While at first surprising, there is recent evidence that this optimism may be part of a more general effect. A study to investigate the interlinkages between SDGs using the Global SDG database, which contains data from the 231 indicators within the UN monitoring framework, also found mostly ...
Innate curiosity associated with how science works should be nurtured ( West and Bergstrom, 2021 ). How to consider evidence and determine source credibility when making decisions should be taught. Understanding how popular media channels and social media influencers can and will distort scientific ...
Genetic improvement of food-producing species is a powerful tool for improving the sustainability of animal agriculture. Conventional selection programs, beginning with selective breeding using statistical prediction methods, such as estimated breeding values and more recently genomic selection, in ...
This article constitutes an interdisciplinary effort combining expertise on such topics as nutritional epidemiology, nutrient security, clinical nutrition, evidence-based medicine, cultural food studies, food history, archaeobotany, and food technology. It aims to synthesize a part of the timeliest ...
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