Animal Science Review

As I continue my research trend concerning adoption rates in shelter cats, I came across this thesis by Nadine Gourkow, who is much more famous than I ever realized while reading the article. A brief google search of her name reveals that she is at the forefront of shelter cat welfare, and clearly I need [...]

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This article is one of many that I’m currently reviewing to build the introduction for the original research I plan to complete this summer/fall. This is the first of several posts discussing shelter cats to come in the next several weeks. This study by Kessler and Turner (1997) took a look at the stress levels [...]

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Here’s the final portion of my paper: Do organic animal operations encourage management decisions that negatively impact animal welfare? If you’ve missed the other posts, you can check out part 1, part 2,  or read the entire paper here.   _____________________________________________________ Conflict Between the Organic Approach and Welfare Ideals Despite measures taken to promote prevention, [...]

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Here’s the second portion of my paper: Do organic animal operations encourage management decisions that negatively impact animal welfare? You can find part 1 here, or read the entire paper here. ______________________________________________________   Welfare from an Ecocentric Perspective Animal welfare has always been and remains to be an important goal in organic operations (Riddle, 2005; [...]

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For my senior ethics class, I chose to write about an issue everyone has an opinion on, from granola folks at the co-op telling me to watch Food Inc. to farmers complaining about the outbreak of upper respiratory disease from those untreated organic herds sneezing over the fence. I actually ended up changing my own [...]

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