Animal Welfare: Synthesizing Contemporary Animal Agriculture/ Engineering and Animal Comfort and Social Responsibility

2011 ◽  
pp. 164-201
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Agriculture

scholarly journals 428 Values and perception: communicating controversial issues in animal agriculture

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Author(s):  
Jessica Eise
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Directional Bias ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Public Debates

Abstract Animal agriculture is an important component of global food security, with animal products serving as a foundational component of many American diets as well as playing a crucial role the sustainability of food production and environmental well-being. Yet animal welfare is one of the most contentious issues in the United States, producing heated, polarizing public debates. Meanwhile, national trends across all major issues demonstrate an increasing loss of common ground between political parties, with no indication of an imminent turnaround. The contentious nature of animal welfare and animal science public debates, as well as indications of increasing polarization across the nation, presents a worrisome dilemma in the face of a growing need to make meaningful societal progress around food security. Research has long demonstrated that contentious arguments, disdainful debates or reiteration of facts often backfire and cause people to double down on their beliefs, with extensive literature in psychology showing that humans are goal-directed information processors who tend to evaluate information with a directional bias toward reinforcing pre-existing views. In this article, I demonstrate how research on the role of values in risk perception can provide a helpful frame for building understanding between competing groups around contentious animal agriculture issues, inform more effective communication efforts and build potential for progress-oriented collaboration.

scholarly journals Halal Products: Not Restricted to Food and its Marketing Opportunity in the Muslim World

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Tariq Khan ◽  
Dr. Tariq Iqbal Khan ◽  
Mr. Sheraz Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Food Preparation ◽  
Market Force ◽  
Lifestyle Choice ◽  
Earth Stewardship

Halal refers to methods of producing goods & services in the manner allowed by Shariah or Islamic law, which invest besides food preparation and food products but also encompasses the production of pharmaceutical, Cosmetics, Garments & fashion, Tourism Practices and also services like tourism, finance & banking and many more. Halal not only a religious observance and obligation for Muslims but also has emerged as a powerful market force alike both for Muslims and non-Muslims, so gained an increasing acceptance among Muslims along with non-Muslim consumers. Halal is becoming a global symbol of a lifestyle choice and quality assurance choice has promoted values as economic and social justice, earth stewardship, social responsibility, and animal welfare have gained interest which is beyond religious compliance. The global halal market is 1.7 billion consumers and worth almost US$ 2.3 trillion. This paper has focused on items Muslims are using other than food.

Marketing potential of corporate social responsibility in supply chains

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frans Verhees ◽  
Abele Kuipers ◽  
Matthew Meulenberg
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Product Differentiation ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Customer Value ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Corporate Social

This paper provides a method to assess the customer value and marketing possibilities of increasing transparency about the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of supply chains. The willingness of small firms, in this study farmers in food supply chains, to make information available about certain CSR issues is measured and compared with CSR issues about which consumers value more information. This will identify the CSR issues about which it would be appropriate for supply chains to increase their transparency. Moreover, farmers in supply chains are grouped based on the information about CSR issues that they are willing to make available and matched with consumer segments that have a need for such information. The method is demonstrated for Dutch dairy supply chains, but it can easily be adapted to other (food) supply chains. Transparency about the CSR issue 'food safety' has marketing potential for Dutch dairy supply chains and can be increased relatively simply. Transparency about the CSR issue 'animal welfare' also has good marketing potential, but increasing the transparency about animal welfare is considered difficult. Transparency about the CSR issues 'environment' and 'revenues and costs' has little marketing potential for Dutch dairy supply chains. The existence of market segments that have a need for information about certain CSR issues and that can be matched with groups of farmers willing to provide this information shows that there are marketing opportunities for product differentiation and target marketing in the Dutch dairy supply chain.

Perceptions of Social Responsibility of Prominent Animal Welfare Groups

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole J. Olynk Widmar ◽  
Carissa J. Morgan ◽  
Candace C. Croney
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare in China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Li
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
Animal Rights Movement

In Animal Welfare in China, Peter Li explores the key animal welfare challenges facing China now, including animal agriculture, bear farming, and the trade and consumption of exotic wildlife, dog meat, and other controversial products. He considers how Chinese policymakers have approached these issues and speaks with activists from China’s growing animal rights movement.

Animal Welfare Across the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-170
Author(s):  
Bernard Rollin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Widespread Belief

Abstract It is important to stress at the beginning of our discussion the current nature of animal welfare in the US and Europe, because ideas that develop there tend to spread across the world, partly for cultural and partially for economic reasons. Historically, animal welfare was associated with good husbandry, treating the animals well in order to ensure their productivity. Almost until the 20th century, the only articulated social ethic pertaining to animals was a prohibition against deliberate sadistic cruelty. Good husbandry persisted, unfortunately, as an ideal only as long as it was essential for the assurance of productivity. With the rise of the Industrial Revolution, the “ancient contract” represented by husbandry was abandoned in the name of profit. Subsequently, by the 20th century, animal agriculture had become industrialized and dominated by high-technology, allowing the placing of round pegs in square holes, despite some 10,000 years of the ancient husbandry contract. In addition, animal welfare was compromised by the significant rise of animal research in a science that denied any truck with ethics. It must be recalled that despite widespread belief to the contrary among scientists and production agriculturalists, animal welfare is inescapably in part an ethical notion, not strictly a scientific one. In fact, how one views animal welfare ethically determines the shape of the science studying animal welfare, not vice versa. At least in Western societies, the consensus societal ethic will establish the dominant notion of animal welfare, achieved by extending our ethic for humans. While numerous other societies (for example Hindu or Buddhist societies) have excellent theoretical views of animal welfare, they often fail to be instantiated in practice. Latin America also lacks a robust animal ethic.

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