Livestock production and society /
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| Imprint: | Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2006. |
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| Description: | 307 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6620683 |
Table of Contents:
- Part A. Social concerns
- 1. Regional patterns of livestock and poultry production in Europe
- 2. Values and culture in society: origins and relationship with livestock
- 3. Public perception of food safety
- 4. Ethical views concerning how to treat animals
- Part B. EU regulations: socio-economic impact
- 5. Livestock and regulation
- 6. Regulations on environment
- 7. 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
- Part C. The way forward taking into account environmental preservation and animal welfare
- 8. Sustainable agriculture or sustainable development?
- 9. Nutritional approaches to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and trace elements in pig manure
- 10. Environmental preservation by adapting diets for dairy cows
- 11. Ammonia reduction from dairy houses
- 12. Ammonia reduction in pigs
- 13. Influence of bioscrubbers and biofilters on the emission of bioaerosols from animal houses
- 14. Manure management and treatment: an overview of the options
- 15. Welfare evaluation in farm animals
- 16. Animal welfare aspects
- the technical challenge during housing, transport and slaughter: poultry
- 17. Animal welfare aspects
- the technical challenge during housing, transport and slaughter: pigs
- 18. Animal welfare aspects
- the technical challenge during housing, transport and slaughter: dairy cows
- 19. Alternative production systems
- 20. Automatic on-line monitoring of animals by Precision Livestock Farming
- Postface
- Index.
