Posted in New Research on Jun 24th, 2012
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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Posted in New Research, Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2012
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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Posted in New Research on Jun 20th, 2012
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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