ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023
Advancing the quantitative characterization of farm animal welfare.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Why a nuanced, pragmatic focus on yields is essential.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Natural Savanna Systems Within the "One Health and One Welfare" Approach: Part 2-Sociodemographic and Institution Factors Impacting Relationships Between Farmers and Livestock.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Precision Livestock Farming Applied to Swine Farms-A Systematic Literature Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Environmental sustainability and ruminant production: A UK veterinary perspective.The Veterinary record · 2024Review
- Trade-offs in the externalities of pig production are not inevitable.Nature food · 2024Article
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- Human-computer interactions with farm animals-enhancing welfare through precision livestock farming and artificial intelligence.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Advancing the quantitative characterization of farm animal welfare.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- From egg to slaughter: monitoring the welfare of Nile tilapia,Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Animal welfare is usually excluded from life cycle assessments (LCAs) of farming systems because of limited consensus on how to measure it. Here, we constructed several LCA-compatible animal-welfare metrics and applied them to data we collected from 74 diverse breed-to-finish systems responsible for 5% of UK pig production. Some aspects of metric construction will always be subjective, such as how different aspects of welfare are aggregated, and what determines poor versus good welfare. We tested the sensitivity of individual farm rankings, and rankings of those same farms grouped by label type (memberships of quality-assurance schemes or product labelling), to a broad range of approaches to metric construction. We found farms with the same label types clustered together in rankings regardless of metric choice, and there was broad agreement across metrics on the rankings of individual farms. We found woodland and
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