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In this blog post for the Food Ethics Council, ffinlo Costain describes different ways of measuring farm animal welfare.
Some metrics consider direct outcomes, e.g. disease levels or displays of natural behaviours. Other metrics act as a proxy for welfare, e.g. an intact tail on a pig suggests that the farm is managed in a way such that the pigs are not stressed (tails are normally cut by the farmer if the animals bite each other due to boredom or stress).
Read the blog post here. See also the Foodsource building block What is animal welfare?
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