Extended Response Flashcards
Give an account of the costs, benefits and ethics of providing different levels of animal welfare in livestock production. (5)
Free range requires more land and is more labour intensive, which can be sold at a higher price. The animals have a better quality of life. Intensive farming often creates conditions of poor animal welfare. Intensive farming is often more cost-effective and is less ethical than free range farming due to poorer animal welfare.
Give an account of the different behavioural indicators of poor welfare in livestock production
(5)
- Stereotypy
- repeated aimless activity
- Misdirected behaviour
- normal behaviour but abnormally directed
- Altered activity levels
- hysteria and apathy
- failure in sexual behaviour
Give an account of food security and sustainability
increasing population increases the demand for food production. Food security is ability of human population to access sufficient quantity of food. Sufficient quality of food. Ability ro distribute food through the population. Production must be guaranteed over a long period of time. Food production should not degrade natural resources on which agriculture depends.
