The ‘Real Welfare’ scheme: benchmarking welfare outcomes for commercially farmed pigs
Animal welfare standards have been incorporated in EU legislation and in farm assurance schemes, based on scientific information and aiming to safeguard the welfare of the species concerned. Recently, emphasis has shifted from resource-based measures of welfare to animal-based measures, which are co...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Animal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731117000246 |