ReviewFrontiers in veterinary science2020
COVID-19 Effects on Livestock Production: A One Welfare Issue.
Review in Frontiers in veterinary science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 45 papers.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 140 citations in OpenAlex.
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- African swine fever at the wildlife-livestock interface: challenges for management and outbreak response within invasive wild pigs in the United States.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Review
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- Willingness to Pay a Higher Price for Pork Obtained Using Animal-Friendly Raising Techniques: A Consumers' Opinion Survey.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- One Welfare: Assessing the Effects of Drought and the COVID-19 Pandemic on Farmers' Well-Being and Their Perception of Goats' Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- The Rise of Heatstroke as a Method of Depopulating Pigs and Poultry: Implications for the US Veterinary Profession.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- The impact of COVID-19 on the sustainability of the environment, animal health and food security, and safety.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Review
- The Multifaceted Relationship between the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Food System.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Aquaculture Production and Value Chains in the COVID-19 Pandemic.Current environmental health reports · 2022Review
- The Research Progress of Vision-Based Artificial Intelligence in Smart Pig Farming.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food production and animal health.Trends in food science & technology · 2022Review
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Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights that we exist in a global community. From a single city, it spread to 188 countries across the world and infected 30 million people by September 18, 2020. Decades of modeling pandemics predicted potential consequences, but COVID-19's impact on the food supply chain, and specifically livestock production was unexpected. Clusters of cases among workers in meat processing plants evolved quickly to affect human, animal, and environmental welfare in several countries. In processing plants, the hygiene focus is on product quality and food safety. Because of their close proximity to one another, COVID-19 spread rapidly between workers and the lack of sick leave and health insurance likely resulted in workers continuing to work when infectious. In the United States (U.S.) many processing plants shut down when they identified major outbreaks, putting pressure especially on pig and poultry industries. At one point, there was a 45% reduction in pig processing capacity meaning about 250,000 pigs per day were not slaughtered. This resulted in longer transport distances to plants in operation with extra capacity, but also to crowding of animals on farm. Producers were encouraged to slow growth rates, but some had to cull animals on farm in ways that likely included suffering and caused considerable upset to owners and workers. Carcass disposal was also associated with potential biosecurity risks and detrimental effects on the environment. Hence, this is a One Welfare issue, affecting human, animal, and environmental welfare and highlighting the fragility of intensive, high-throughput livestock production systems. This model needs to be re-shaped to include the animal, human, and environmental elements across the farm to fork chain. Such a One Welfare approach will ensure that food production systems are resilient, flexible, and fair in the face of future challenges.
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