24 pages, This research examines how sheep farmers and industry actors in the United Kingdom (UK) understand and conceptualize what animal welfare scientists term ‘positive animal welfare’. It explores their awareness of the concept, and how they interpret it using a qualitative approach. Participants were recruited using a snowballing, purposive sample approach, resulting in 25 sheep farmers and 11 industry actors (veterinarians, farming organizations, advisors, and supply chain) being interviewed. To collect data, a combined approach involving semi-structured interviews and a facilitated workshop were used between April 2021 and March 2022. Data were then thematically analyzed using a hybrid of inductive and deductive coding process. The findings suggested that the perceptions of farmers and industry actors in the study regarding positive welfare differ from contemporary academic discourses. Overall, around 7 of the farmers equated positive welfare with “positive stockmanship”, while six of them expressed “good animal welfare” definitions associated with the Five Freedoms. In contrast, most industry actors (6) expressed interpretations associated with high welfare standards (going above minimum recommended practices) and positive mental experiences (3). Emerging discourses revealed the link between self-identity, social identity and what positive welfare is, the importance of knowledge exchange, and the need for practical indicators through language rephrasing. There is a clear need to enhance and improve knowledge dissemination strategies, particularly in the UK, where much research is being conducted on positive animal welfare.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 181 Document Number: C36378
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Drovers CattleNetwork via online. 3 pages., Author comments about a CNN Eatocracy feature that included an observation that the 4-H organization serves to desensitize children to the suffering of animals.
International: Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01515
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Pages 93-107 in Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), Animal rights: current debates and new directions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 338 pages.
19 pages, via online journal, Dairy farms pose many hazards to farmers and their employees, including the risk of injury caused by handling animals. On many farms, there is a lack of consistent information and training related to farm safety topics, including stockmanship, or safe animal handling. The purpose of this qualitative research was to explore effective communication strategies that support the application of stockmanship practices and more broadly support health and safety measures and the adoption of new behaviors by farmers and their employees. Research was conducted in three stages via in-depth farm tours and in-person interviews, a qualitative survey, and follow-up phone interviews with dairy farmers. Findings identified four values and moral norms important to dairy farmers and four barriers to implementation of farm safety practices. The research also revealed publications and in-person meetings as key channels of communication and on-farm consultants as important influencers. From the research findings, three major recommendations emerged. These include using a train the trainer educational model, engaging with professionals and encouraging farmer-to-farmer communication, and leveraging digital resources.
Peterson, Jane W. (author) and Scharpe, Jennifer (author)
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Abstract
Publication Date:
2009-08-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29322
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Posted at http://www.aejmc.org, Paper presented at the 2009 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention, Boston, Massachusetts, August 5-8, 2009.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05748
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Drovers CattleNetwork, Lenexa, Kansas. 4 pages., Interview with Nathan Runkle, Mercy for Animals, about livestock abuses reported recently by the organization, based on undercover investigations.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06952
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Pages 151-183 in Eugene C. Hargrove (ed.), The animal rights/environmental ethics debate: the environmental perspective. State University of New York Press, Albany. 273 pages.
Wolfson, David J. (author) and Sullivan, Mariann (author)
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Book chapter
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
International: Oxford University Press, Oxford, England
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01516
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Pages 205-233 in Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), Animal rights: current debates and new directions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 338 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29036
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Posted at http://institution.gallup.com, Via "Create a Trend" option, Questions 25c (2008 survey) and Question 37c (2003 survey), Gallup Poll Social Series: Values and Beliefs. 2 pages., Compares responses from national surveys among U. S. adults during 2003 and 2008.
Discourse about industrial animal agriculture contributing to global climate change. Examines how interest groups have responded to the release of "Livestock's Long Shadow," a 2006 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36816
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 10, Special Bulletin No. 17. 2 pages., Cites a bulletin by the National Better Business Bureau, Inc. Includes samples of objectionable claims in advertising food and drug preparations for animals.
Analyzes images of animals over a 30-year period, with emphasis on relations between humans and animals in terms of protection of humans against animals (e.g., diseases), animals against humans and their relative impact on environment.
Petto, Andrew J. (author) and Russell, Karla D. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06958
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pages 167-185 in Francine L. Dolins (ed.), Attitudes to animals: views in animal welfare. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 262 pages., Framework for "humane education" regarding use of animals in learning (e.g., biology).
5 pages., Online via UI Catalog. September-October issue., Authors described types of legal disputes in the equine industry, addressed why and when to use mediation, and offered suggestions on mediation methods.
16 pages., Animals, Justice and the Law Part 2., Author offered information and perspectives about development of "Ag-Gag" laws in some states involving the reporting of production and slaughter practices in the meat industry, their effect on society, and limitations of self-regulation.
