edited by R. Geers
Livestock Production and Society provides a scientific-based, multidisciplinary perspective to the dialogue between society and the stakeholders within livestock production.
Contents
PART A: Social concerns
- Regional patterns of livestock and poultry production in Europe
Abstract
- Introduction: the changing role of Europe in global livestock and poultry production
- Regional patterns of cattle and pig production
- Regional patterns of poultry production
- Summary of the main results
- Values and culture in society: origins and relationship with livestock
Abstract
- Where is Western society going?
- The dynamic of biodiversity
- Origins of humanity
- Relationship of values, culture and livestock
- Public perception of food safety
- Interviews with lay people
- Interviews with experts
- Reconstruction of underlying values
- Ethical views concerning how to treat animals
- Traditional culture related to animal ethics
PART B: EU Regulations: socio-economic impact
- Livestock and legislation
- Animal health from farm to fork
- Animal feed
- Animal welfare
- Food safety
- Enforcement
- Regulations on environment
- Introduction: environmental regulations and livestock production
- Elaboration and implementation of the Environmental European regulation
- Water quality
- Gaseous emissions
- Soil preservation
- IPPC, a sector-based approach
- The impacts of the new EU directive for laying hen husbandry on the production
and trade patterns for eggs and egg products in the EU
- The setting: Regional patterns of egg production and egg trade
- The new EU and German directives for laying hen husbandry
- Discussion: Further challenges for the egg and egg products industries
PART C: The way forward taking into account environmental preservation and animal
welfare
- Sustainable agriculture or sustainable development?
- Set aside any “autonomist vision” of agriculture
Livestock production and society
- Understanding and mastering relationships between agriculture and development
processes
- Major scientific challenges
- Five complementary themes
- Nutritional approaches to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and trace elements in pig
manure
- Methodologies to reduce N in pig manure
- Methodologies to reduce P in pig manure
- Methodologies to reduce trace elements in pig manure
- Environmental preservation by adapting diets for dairy cows
- Nitrogen contents in manure and dietary adaptations in dairy cows
- Phosphorus contents in manure and dietary adaptations in dairy cows
- Ammonia reduction from dairy houses
- Ammonia and its release from faeces and urine
- Influences of factors in the building environment
- Ammonia reduction in pigs
- Main factors that influence the ammonia emissions from pig houses
- Methods to reduce ammonia emissions
- Influence of bioscrubbers and biofilters on the emission of bioaerosols from
animal houses
- Bioaerosols in animal houses
- Influence of bioscrubbers and biofilters on the emission of bioaerosols
- Manure management and treatment: an overview of the options
- Manure and effluent management
- Treatment systems in agriculture
- Welfare evaluation in farm animals
- Legislation
- Definitions of animal welfare
- Assessment of animal welfare
- Animal welfare aspects - The technical challenge during housing, transport and
slaughter: Poultry
- Welfare and technical implications of production systems for laying hens
- Short overview of the welfare implications of poultry transport
- Welfare and technological implications of poultry stunning
- Animal welfare aspects - The technical challenge during housing, transport and
slaughter: Pigs
- Housing of pigs
Livestock production and society
- Transport and slaughter
- Audits for transport and pre-slaughter handling
- Animal welfare aspects - The technical challenge during housing, transport and
slaughter: Dairy cows
- Housing conditions
- Handling and transport conditions
- Alternative production systems
- Definition of alternative systems
- Alternative systems for pigs
- Alternative systems for poultry
- Alternative systems for cattle and sheep
- Automatic on-line monitoring of animals by Precision Livestock Farming
- Objectives of Precision Livestock Farming in monitoring
- Basic principles of Precision Livestock Farming
- Sensors and sensing techniques
- Example 1: Real time sound analysis to detect health status in pigs
- Example 2: Real time identification of the behaviour of laying hens to monitor
animal welfare
Index
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