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What is good animal welfare?
How do you feel today? As humans, our welfare at any point in time is affected by many different things, including our health (do you have a cold? do you have any aches or pains? ), our social life (are you lonely? ), work (is it stressful?
What are the Five Freedoms of animal welfare?
The Five Freedoms was the first widely accepted evidence-based framework to capture the key aspects of animal welfare in one model.
What are the Five Domains of animal welfare?
In 1994, Professor David Mellor and Dr Cam Reid proposed a new model to think about animal welfare and its assessment.
How can climate change affect animal welfare?
RSPCA Australia acknowledges that there is scientific consensus that climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activities including electricity generation, agriculture (including livestock farming), industry, waste, and land use. Climate change can have a negative effect on animal health and welfare directly (e. g.
What is ‘One Health’?
‘One Health’ is the concept that animal health and human health are interdependent and bound to the health of the ecosystems in which they exist.
What is ‘One Welfare’?
Figure 1: Examples of topics that fall under the umbrella of One Welfare. ‘One Welfare’ is the concept that animal welfare depends on and influences human welfare and environmental sustainability.