Unit 5 Animal Health Welfare单元5，动物健康与福利.pptVIP

* * * * * Ensures that producers are producing products that wholesome, and offer consumers the highest degree of confidence Basic components of a good QA program List of critical control points Develop implement improved mgmt. practices Ongoing monitoring High level of employee training Issues facing animal agriculture today Environment Diet-health Animal rights Socioeconomic Food safety Special interest groups have become major influence on public policy Animal agriculture should be promoting stewardship throughout their industries Number of special interest groups is growing Also indications that they are forming coalitions to combine resources and power Over 71,800 sites referring to “animal activist” on the web Vital that they stay in the public eye by whatever means possible Risk assessment becomes important as we evaluate virtually everything in animal agriculture Major issues tend to fall in 4 categories Animal welfare Diet-health Environmental impact Food safety Urban sprawl continues to cause problems with agriculture Rural PA survey 33% complained about a neighboring farm 57% concerned about odor 18% flies Only 5% response rate Tends to be a continuum of these groups Animal Exploitations Animal Use Animal Control Animal Welfare Humane Societies Animal Rights Animal Liberationists Animal welfare is not an Us vs. Them theme There are many issues to consider Animals do have rights which dictate that we must have good animal husbandry practices to assure good animal welfare Modern animal welfare concerns Production diseases Large animal units Physical psychological deprivation due to confinement Concerns w/ animals in research No suffering of pain No repeated invasive experiments Use of anesthesia when performing studies w/ drugs that cause paralysis Husbandry housing should fit the animal Oversight is necessary These issues are not going away, we must find a way to deal with them and educate the consumer Animal care guidelines development by the