Essays on Animal Welfare
Animal farming has gone through considerable changes during last decades. Average farm size has been increased, resulting in farmers spending less time with individual animals and making it more difficult to detect abnormal behaviour and illnesses in livestock (Fraser 2001). On the other hand, farming has become increasingly mechanized, further reducing everyday interactions between farmers...
Law reform is the process in which the law is modified to better reflect the society’s needs, and changes. Legislations, bills and acts are amended to change the law, fix faults or to add a section and new rules in the existing legislation. The ‘Animal Welfare Legislation Amendment Bill 2019’ was an act to amend...
Animal welfare has become a huge topic of discussion as of late. From an agricultural perspective in the Midwest, the fear of farms being viewed as harmful to animals drives advocacy and transparency forward in terms of showing the public why practices are safe for animals. This educational aspect has proven as just one form...
