The welfare of cattle /
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| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Can food production keep pace with population growth, changing dietary habits, and a desire for higher quality protein?
- Economics of global cattle industries, with implications for on-farm practices
- Dairy and beef sustainability: nutrient loss and use efficiency
- Livestock and climate change: facts and fiction
- Microbial pathogens in extensive and intensive animal agriculture systems
- Cattle ectoparasites in extensive and intensive cattle systems
- The uses of biotechnology to improve animal welfare
- The meaning of animal welfare and its application to cattle
- Sense and sensibility: understanding how cattle perceive our collective world
- Breeding and welfare: genetic manipulation of beef and dairy cattle
- Providing assurance that cattle have a reasonably good life
- Transportation and slaughter of beef and dairy cattle
- Optimal human animal interactions for improving cattle handling
- Cattle welfare and principles of handling facility design
- Pain mitigation in cattle
- An overview of the segments of the beef cattle industry and animal welfare implications of beef industry practices
- Ranching with integrity and intentionality
- Range beef cow and calf health and welfare
- Animal care issues in beef cattle feedlots
- Welfare issues in feedlot cattle
- Sustainability, the environment, and animal welfare
- To meet the ethical imperative of telos in modern dairy production: societal concern for naturalness, animal welfare, and opportunities for resolution through science
- Herdsmanship and human interaction with dairy cattle
- Health, disease, and animal welfare perspectives for dairy cattle
- Dairy cow welfare and herd turnover rates
- Calf welfare
- The downer cow
- Cow comfort in intensive and extensive dairy housing systems.