Taking ethics into account in farm animal breeding: what can the breeding companies achieve?

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Autor(a) principal: Olsson, IAS
Data de Publicação: 2006
Outros Autores: Gamborg, C, Sandøe, P
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/26306
Resumo: Animal welfare and the ethical issues it raises have been discussed intensively for a couple of decades. The emphasis has been on the direct effects of housing and husbandry, but more attention is now being given to problems originating in selective breeding. European attempts to adjust animal welfare legislation to deal with these problems have been largely unsuccessful, but the fact that selective breeding can introduce welfare problems continues to place an ethical responsibility on the animal breeding industry. Since breeding decisions are made centrally and, increasingly, internationally, strategic change is only likely to occur if it is embedded in an international agreement of some kind. The aim of this paper is to describe the key ethical issues facing animal breeding and assess the suggestion that the breeding industry itself can deal with ethical issues by means of an ethical code. Results from recent projects involving commercial breeding enterprises are presented.
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title Taking ethics into account in farm animal breeding: what can the breeding companies achieve?
spellingShingle Taking ethics into account in farm animal breeding: what can the breeding companies achieve?
Olsson, IAS
Animal welfare
Values
Sustainability
Animal production
Biotechnology
title_short Taking ethics into account in farm animal breeding: what can the breeding companies achieve?
title_full Taking ethics into account in farm animal breeding: what can the breeding companies achieve?
title_fullStr Taking ethics into account in farm animal breeding: what can the breeding companies achieve?
title_full_unstemmed Taking ethics into account in farm animal breeding: what can the breeding companies achieve?
title_sort Taking ethics into account in farm animal breeding: what can the breeding companies achieve?
author Olsson, IAS
author_facet Olsson, IAS
Gamborg, C
Sandøe, P
author_role author
author2 Gamborg, C
Sandøe, P
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Olsson, IAS
Gamborg, C
Sandøe, P
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Animal welfare
Values
Sustainability
Animal production
Biotechnology
topic Animal welfare
Values
Sustainability
Animal production
Biotechnology
description Animal welfare and the ethical issues it raises have been discussed intensively for a couple of decades. The emphasis has been on the direct effects of housing and husbandry, but more attention is now being given to problems originating in selective breeding. European attempts to adjust animal welfare legislation to deal with these problems have been largely unsuccessful, but the fact that selective breeding can introduce welfare problems continues to place an ethical responsibility on the animal breeding industry. Since breeding decisions are made centrally and, increasingly, internationally, strategic change is only likely to occur if it is embedded in an international agreement of some kind. The aim of this paper is to describe the key ethical issues facing animal breeding and assess the suggestion that the breeding industry itself can deal with ethical issues by means of an ethical code. Results from recent projects involving commercial breeding enterprises are presented.
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