The Well-Being of Farm Animals: Challenges and Solutions

By G. John Benson and Bernard E. Rollin

The Well-Being of Farm Animals: Challenges and Solutions is the first title in Blackwell Publishing Professional’s groundbreaking series Issues in Animal Bioethics. This important book examines the ethical and economic importance of production animal well-being and pain management—topics of increasing concern to consumers.

The Well-Being of Farm Animals: Challenges and Solutions PDF offers veterinarians, veterinary and agriculture students, animal scientists, and food animal producers both practical methods to enhance farm animal well-being, and greater understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of those methods. With a variety of perspectives from respected experts and specialists, this book conveys new research findings and promotes valuable discourse on critical issues. Most importantly, editors Benson and Rollin provide feasible instruction to put theory into practice.

The theories and applications presented in this book are likely to be legislated in the future. Therefore, it is important for veterinarians in production animal medicine to keep abreast of the latest issues in promoting animal well-being, and implement sound animal welfare methods every day. The Well-Being of Farm Animals: Challenges and Solutions provides the information veterinarians need to do both.

• Comprehensive and detailed review of both the practical and theoretical aspects of farm animal well-being;
• Contains groundbreaking theories and applications that are likely to be translated into legislation and guidelines for handling food animals;
• Contributions from a wide variety of experts and specialists, conveying new research findings and promoting valuable discourse on critical issues.