Abstract from UI electronic subscription., Authors use contingent valuation to determine the economic value of improving the welfare of farm animals and find that people are willing to pay extra on their weekly food bill to ensure that laying hens, broiler chickens, dairy cows and pigs have improved welfare conditions. "The benefits of improving animal welfare are shown to exceed the costs of implementing these schemes. We conclude that improving the standards of legislation for farm animal welfare so that all farm animals experience higher standards of welfare can be economically justified."
Ellis, Stu (author) and University of Illinois Extension.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2007-07-26
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26275
Notes:
Via "Farm Gate" web site. 1 page., Researchers find "the impacts of advertising and food safety effects to be economically small compared with price and expenditure effects." Also, the economists "believe that generic pork advertising appears to help demand for poultry more than pork."
Wolfson, David J. (author) and Sullivan, Mariann (author)
Format:
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
Notes:
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: C29853
Notes:
Pages 271-290 in Adam Lindgreen, Martin K. Hingley and Joelle Vanhamme (eds.), The crisis of food brands: sustaining safe, innovative and competitive food supply. Gower Publishing Limited, Surrey, England. 352 pages.
Wing, Steven (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2003-07-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25843
Notes:
Posted at http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/2003/cs_conference_abstract.pdf, Pages 38-39 in "Conflicted science: corporate influence on scientific research and science-based policy," a conference on July 11, 2003.
Hoffmann, Volker (author), Contreras Arias, Carolina (author), Holle, David (author), White, Douglas (author), Peters, Michael (author), and Burkhart, Stefan (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2010-09-14
Published:
Colombia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30732
Notes:
Presented at Tropentag 2010, Conference on International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-16, 2010. 1 page.
