Food Animal Husbandry and the New Millennium

Auteur
James A. Serpell

Texte du rabat

A special issue of "Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science", this volume addresses food animal husbandry and the new millennium. There are essays on: the culture and agriculture of animal production; animal welfare issues in the poultry industry; and assessing the welfare of dairy cattle.

Résumé
First Published in 2001. This highly readable and comprehensive overview of psychophysiology provides information regarding the anatomy and physiology of various body systems, methods of recording their activity, and ways in which these measures relate to human behavior.

Contenu

INTRODUCTION -- Food Animal Husbandry and the New Millennium -- /James A. Serpell and Thomas D. Parsons -- ARTICLES -- Farm Animal Production: Changing Agriculture in a Changing Culture -- /David Fraser -- Animal Welfare and Livestock Production in a Postindustrial Milieu -- /Paul B. Thompson -- Animal Welfare Issues in the Poultry Industry: Is There a Lesson to Be Learned? -- /Ian J. H. Duncan -- Assessing the Welfare of Dairy Cattle -- /Jeffrey Rushen -- BOOKS RECEIVED.