Farm Animals Are Long Away from Natural Behavior: Open Questions and Operative Consequences on Animal Welfare.

animal behavior animal welfare bioethics domestication genetic selection

Journal

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
ISSN: 2076-2615
Titre abrégé: Animals (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101635614

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
06 Mar 2021
Historique:
received: 13 02 2021
revised: 03 03 2021
accepted: 05 03 2021
entrez: 3 4 2021
pubmed: 4 4 2021
medline: 4 4 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The concept of welfare applied to farm animals has undergone a remarkable evolution. The growing awareness of citizens pushes farmers to guarantee the highest possible level of welfare to their animals. New perspectives could be opened for animal welfare reasoning around the concept of domestic, especially farm, animals as partial human artifacts. Therefore, it is important to understand how much a particular behavior of a farm animal is far from the natural one of its ancestors. This paper is a contribution to better understand the role of genetics of the farm animals on their behavior. This means that the naïve approach to animal welfare regarding returning animals to their natural state should be challenged and that welfare assessment should be considered.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33800925
pii: ani11030724
doi: 10.3390/ani11030724
pmc: PMC8001272
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Subventions

Organisme : Università degli Studi di Sassari
ID : Fondo di Ateneo

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Auteurs

Alberto Cesarani (A)

Animal and Dairy Science Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.

Giuseppe Pulina (G)

Department of Agraria, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy.

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