Happy or healthy? How members of the public prioritise farm animal health and natural behaviours.

ABSTRACT: The importance given to minimising health issues and promoting natural behaviours is a polarising issue within farm animal welfare. It is predominantly thought that members of the public prioritise animals being able to behave naturally over other aspects of farm animal welfare, such as addressing health issues. However, public perspectives may be more multi-dimensional than is generally thought, with the importance given to these different elements of welfare dependent on the situation and state of the animals in question. To examine this, a factorial survey using vignettes, which experimentally manipulated the different levels of health (high health vs. low health) and natural behaviour provision (high behaviour vs. low behaviour), was completed by a sample (n = 810) representative of th

SUBMITTER: Vigors B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7928445 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature