Intensive pig farming: Ethical considerations

Pork is the most widely consumed meat in the world. To produce the quantities of pig meat needed to meet customer demand, pig farms have become industrialized systems and hundreds of millions of pigs around the world are kept in these factories. The author highlights the main knowledge on natural pi...

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Autor principal:	Elena Lara de la Casa
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Publicado:	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Facultat de Dret 2017
Materias:	Animal culture SF1-1100 Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence K1-7720
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f3345e4b206f404188a03a7dc1a3f7dd2021-11-27T08:46:14ZIntensive pig farming: Ethical considerations10.5565/rev/da.62462-7518https://doaj.org/article/f3345e4b206f404188a03a7dc1a3f7dd2017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/da/article/view/6https://doaj.org/toc/2462-7518Pork is the most widely consumed meat in the world. To produce the quantities of pig meat needed to meet customer demand, pig farms have become industrialized systems and hundreds of millions of pigs around the world are kept in these factories. The author highlights the main knowledge on natural pigs behavior as well as the psychological characteristics of pigs like cognitive skills, intelligence and their capacity to feel emotions. Also, conditions of the intensive indoor systems and the consequences for pig welfare are summarized. Finally, and based on this information, intensive farming conditions are analyzed and discussed from an ethical point of view.Elena Lara de la CasaUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Facultat de DretarticleAnimal cultureSF1-1100Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. JurisprudenceK1-7720ENESDerecho Animal, Vol 8, Iss 3 (2017)
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description	Pork is the most widely consumed meat in the world. To produce the quantities of pig meat needed to meet customer demand, pig farms have become industrialized systems and hundreds of millions of pigs around the world are kept in these factories. The author highlights the main knowledge on natural pigs behavior as well as the psychological characteristics of pigs like cognitive skills, intelligence and their capacity to feel emotions. Also, conditions of the intensive indoor systems and the consequences for pig welfare are summarized. Finally, and based on this information, intensive farming conditions are analyzed and discussed from an ethical point of view.
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Intensive pig farming: Ethical considerations

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