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Feelings based approach pro/con

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Emphasis on decreasing negatives and increasing positives
Difficult to understand and quantify emotions, not scientific

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Animal choice/preference based approach pro/con

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Good in theory, y gestation crates
How many choices do you offer

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Nature of the species based approach pro/con

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Want animals to behave in natural way
Who defines natural?, least scientific credibility, too many species

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Freedoms based approach pro/con (1960)

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Stand up
Lie down
Turn around
Groom
Stretch limbs out fully

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Freedoms based approach pro/con (1992)

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Freedom from hunger and thirst
Freedom from discomfort
Freedom from pain, injury, and disease
Freedom from fear and distress
Freedom to express normal behavior

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Homeostasis based approach pro/con

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Based on animals attempts and success at coping with their environment
Exists if successful coping with no biological cost to
-health, growth, food/fiber, reproduction (starve is most severe)
Go to approach for scientist because can measure animal’s response
i.e. loss of milk production due to animal stress

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Prohand

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A training program for stock people to teach animal handling and attitudes (change people behavior)
Has positive effects such as increase in production or growth rate

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Autonomic nervous system response

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Short-term, fast, acute
Benefit: fight or flight can save life
hand on hot surface

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Neuro-endocrine response

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Longer, sustained duration, slowly increase stress, chronic

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Immune system responses

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Multiple combinations of high/low

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5 sources of animal stress

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Environmental
Chemical
Biochemical
Physical
Psychological

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1st party audit

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Within company

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2nd party audit

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Supplier that purchases from company doing audit

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3rd party audit

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Blind, outside entity (UEP)

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Self-regulation within the animal welfare industry

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Retail driven in response to consumer concerns and pressure (McD’s)

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Biggest and second biggest factor for passing an audit for chickens

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  1. Housing and space allowance (has increased overtime)
  2. Food and water
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______ ________ in the layer house must allow daily inspections of all birds

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light intensity

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_______ ______ must allow for continuous flow of fresh air for every bird

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ventilation system (ammonia levels)

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Animal care audits focus on what bird?

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Egg laying chickens

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Procedure for 3rd party audit

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Clean clothes, vehicle
Meet person and explain audit
Disposable outerwear
Whole facility inspected with focus on animal welfare and care

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______ made a landmark decisions by banning gestation crates

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Florida

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Beak trimming

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Observe method, have to demonstrate they know how to do correctly at audit because can hurt bird

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Molting

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Can increase life span, can’t stop feeding to achieve but can reduce feed while still maintaining good BCS

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Free range chickens

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High exercise - good bones but higher mortality rates, dirtier eggs

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Battery cage chickens
Low exercise - more bone breakage but lower death
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Enrich cage chickens
Additional features from battery cages such as areas for nesting, scratching, perching and dust bathing
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Farm program to evaluate dairy cows
Locomotion, hocks/knees sores, BCS, milking routine, space to lie down
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Number of domesticated
We have only domesticated a few number of species
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Animal machines (Ruth Harrison)
Coined the term factory farming to represent mass production
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Precautionary principle
In Europe something might hurt the population they will ban it vs US there needs to be data showing it is harming population
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Stereotypic behavior
Unnatural behavior seen in captivity such as bar biting
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Aqua culture
Oxygen is major factor limiting production, people must be concerned about oxygen levels in the water and increase waste from the fish (N and P)
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What is Premarin?
Uses pregnant mare urine as a source of estrogen for women in menopause Foal is a waste product of industry
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Fur farming
China holds market, two main issues are confinement and method of euthanasia Pro fur - Fur Commission USA, International Fur Trade Federation Anti fur - Ethical treatment of animals and Humane society of US U.S. has Fur Labeling Act and Dog and Cat Fur Protection Act
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US energy policy and how it is related to animal use
Ethanol plants where corn is favored raw material animals can consume corn by-product
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Swine production gestation crate pro and con
Pro - individual animal attention, controlled feeding, reduced competition, controlled environment, economic and productivity improvements Con - Inability to turn around, reduced social contact and interaction, stereotypic behaviors, chore-time free access stalls
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PQA to PQA+ what is difference
Has animal handling clause
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Total protein
What you eat *Total protein isn't totally digestable
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Net protein
What builds your body
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Net protein utilization (NPU)
The critical point considering digestibility and biological value I.e. corn is 53% NPU and beef is 73% NPU
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Distillers dry grain with solublea (DDGS)
Problem with feeding DDGS is sulfate toxicity if you feed too much
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Confined animal feeding operations (CAFO)
The legal term name for factory farming
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Horses for human consumption
State legislation has proved to be much more important than federal legislation (Illinois), Big increase in shipping to Mexico after banning in US, US wouldn't pay for meat inspection but individual plant could pay for it
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Wild horse and burro legislation
Can't go out and capture for slaughter 50% BLM funds go to feed horses 50% of wild horses live in captive type environment
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Domestic violence
More about power and control over abused subject Majority of men Can be hard to get help if people leave with their pet (women's shelters)
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Animal hoarding
Majority female, "what problem"
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Horn removal
No local anesthesia if removed before erupts, after erupts from hairline need vet/local anes
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Declawing
Removing last digit of the front toes of cats Banned in Europe and Hollywood, CA
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Ear cropping
Cosmetic reasons with a few medical reasons Requires full anesthesia
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Transplant surgeries for animals
Can be done, owner is also responsible for donor animal
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Castration of farm animals
Debate on weather to do under sedation or not
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Trimming of needle teeth
Done at birth of pigs, is it a needed procedure or anesthesia?
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Docking of sheep's tail
Like short for show but if too short will cause rectal prolapse
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Branding for cattle
More commonly done out west where roam on expanses of land
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Bipedalism
Unique to humans, allows us to use less energy but have more knee/back problems and birth problems, allows us to be more selective in diet
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GI tract to body length
Herbivore>Omnivore?Carnivore
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Post gastric processing causes us to have a larger ______ ________ than gorillas
small intestine
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Animal welfare act and circuses
USDA inspectors to go look at animal welfare in circuses
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AZA
Zoo association that is a voluntary group but all respectable zoos are members
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Zoo animal enrichment
Like pumpkins for halloween want to minimize stereotypic behavior
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Sanctuaries
Have global accreditations but aren't breeding animals
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Horse racing debate
How many actually make it onto track, (Only 15%) injuries sustained
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Lasix and withdrawal
Prevents respiratory bleeding, can make horse run faster and possibly pee out drugs (Diuretic)
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Greyhound racing
Only few tracks left, same as horses what to do with animals after racing and injuries possible
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Who goes to animal movies/sets if asked to to make sure no animals are harmed
American Humane
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Michigan's large carnivore act
Set the precedence on owning large carnivores
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Ohio dangerous animal act
Followed michigans precendence
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Species survival plans
Zoos have species survival plans that mainly focus on large mammals and have trades with other zoos to ensure breeding
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Rise and fall rate
Animals with low repro, special feeding, migratory are more likely to come extinct
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Pets and federal
Different laws at federal state and local???
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Bald eagle protection act
Example of how federal legislation can prohibit owning a specific species Killing or processing it is illegal
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Black beauty (George Angell American version)
Increased funding for MSPCA and AHA
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Children's literature
Anthropomorphism of animals, can increase funding for animal protection
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Gestation crates will be gone in Ohio by ____
2026
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Can you currently dock tails of cattle?
No as of 2017
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Can't just decide to go put in battery cages what can you do
Need to purchase an already existing farm
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Veal crates
Can maintain individually for 3 months but then need to be in groups
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Willingness to pay
What we say on survey isn't what we always do in real life
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Humane methods of slaughter act
Established humane standards of slaughtering livestock, must be rendered insensible by a single blow, gunshot, electrical, chemical or other means that is rapid and effective prior to slaughter
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Kosher slaughter is exception to humane slaughter becasue
Animal doesn't have to be rendered insensless
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Animal welfare act
Doesn't cover birds or mice
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After world war II there was a big push to change what?
How we raise many of our agricultural products including animals
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Foie Gras
Fatty liver from geese, is considered delicacy, force feed birds to get liver
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Meat consumption is on the ____
Rise
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Breed specific legislation
State and municipal law not national law U.K.'s new law against XL bully
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How can we increase the efficiency of energy transfer?
Convert a greater percentage of total solar energy into energy fixed in storage
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Source of protein world wide
2/3 from plant 1/3 from animal
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Tail docking in dogs
AVMA said should be discontinued if only done for cosmetic reasons Working dogs may have reasons to have tail docked In lots of breed standards
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Debarking
Cutting vocal cords, should be a last resort, will still have some noise
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Circuses removed elephants due to ______
Pressure from public

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