Grand societal challenges are systemic in nature. They require coordinated behavioral change as well as reliable normative orientation. Prevailing sustainability approaches treat targets such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals as fixed objectives that merely need to be...

The regulation on GI foods such as Parmesan cheese has been reinforced to promote more sustainable and animal-friendly food systems. Although GIs tend to be perceived as more animal-friendly due to their allegedly artisanal production, no previous research has broadly investigated the binding...

Supplying monogastric livestock with amino acids is a key challenge in animal husbandry. In organic farming, the challenges are even higher due to legislative restrictions on the use of high-quality protein feed and especially synthetic amino acids, the latter being common practice in...

Industry stakeholder requests for improved animal welfare practices in German meat production have steadily increased in recent years. A transformation of German animal husbandry systems would almost certainly result in higher production costs. Against this background, producers and the meat...

Grand societal challenges are systemic in nature. They require coordinated behavioral change as well as reliable normative orientation. Prevailing sustainability approaches treat targets such as the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals as fixed objectives that merely need to be...

Große gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen sind systemischer Natur. Sie erfordern koordinierte Verhaltensänderungen sowie eine verlässliche normative Orientierung. Vorherrschende Nachhaltigkeitsansätze behandeln Zielvorgaben wie die Sustainable Development Goals der Vereinten Nationen als...

Große gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen sind systemischer Natur. Sie erfordern koordinierte Verhaltensänderungen sowie eine verlässliche normative Orientierung. Vorherrschende Nachhaltigkeitsansätze behandeln Zielvorgaben wie die Sustainable Development Goals der Vereinten Nationen als...

Animal welfare assumes a certain relevance within a farm context in the European Union through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In the face of a wide range of animal welfare legislation enacted in Europe since the 1970s, also following ambitious public and private debates sometimes...

The regulation on GI foods such as Parmesan cheese has been reinforced to promote more sustainable and animal-friendly food systems. Although GIs tend to be perceived as more animal-friendly due to their allegedly artisanal production, no previous research has broadly investigated the binding...

A literature review is conducted of five recently developed methodologies to determine an optimal non-anthropocentric animal welfare levy that internalizes the social costs of animal suffering into the price of animal products, whereby animal and human welfare are counted equally. Chicken meat...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliamentary Research Service at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, examines the implementation and enforcement of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005, with particular focus on animal fitness for...

Empirical insights into consumer preferences for sustainability attributes of cattle products are relevant for developing labeling policies, consumer communication strategies, and agri-environmental compensation schemes for farmers. We analyzed and compared consumers' preferences for two cattle...

Within a general equilibrium model, this paper identifies a novel animal welfare externality that occurs if the private animal friendliness in a market economy falls short of the social animal friendliness used by the social planner when determining the efficient allocation. The animal welfare...

We seek to understand the welfare of dairy cattle in Denmark from 1750 to 1900, a period marked by significant agricultural development and industrialization. By applying contemporary animal welfare metrics to historical data, we uncover a detailed picture of how bovine welfare evolved. Our...

Supplying monogastric livestock with amino acids is a key challenge in animal husbandry. In organic farming, the challenges are even higher due to legislative restrictions on the use of high-quality protein feed and especially synthetic amino acids, the latter being common practice in...

Die Versorgung von monogastrischen Nutztieren mit Aminosäuren ist eine zentrale Herausforderung in der Tierhaltung. Werden die Tiere unter den Bedingungen des Ökologischen Landbaus gehalten, wird die Versorgung durch Restriktionen bezüglich des Einsatzes hochwertiger Proteinfuttermittel und...

Industry stakeholder requests for improved animal welfare practices in German meat production have steadily increased in recent years. A transformation of German animal husbandry systems would almost certainly result in higher production costs. Against this background, producers and the meat...

Cost-benefit analysis and social welfare functions are two closely related methods to evaluate impacts of policies on humans (producers, consumers etc.) and animals. In cost-benefit analysis, the impacts on animals are currently either disclosed as intangible impacts or monetised from the human...

Concentration on elite breeding lines has endangered a number of traditional dairy breeds. Although several of those breeds are known for superior functional traits such as robustness, they are increasingly replaced by Holstein cows. A discrete choice experiment with 159 breeders revealed the...

Public support is critical for the incorporation of farm animal welfare (FAW) standards into national food policies. Multiple pathways, e.g., market-based policies, political mandates, and donations to animal charities, exist for the public to influence these standards. The challenge often...

We seek to understand the welfare of dairy cattle in Denmark from 1750 to 1900, a period marked by significant agricultural development and industrialization. By applying contemporary animal welfare metrics to historical data, we uncover a detailed picture of how bovine welfare evolved. Our...

Die Versorgung von monogastrischen Nutztieren mit Aminosäuren ist eine zentrale Herausforderung in der Tierhaltung. Werden die Tiere unter den Bedingungen des Ökologischen Landbaus gehalten, wird die Versorgung durch Restriktionen bezüglich des Einsatzes hochwertiger Proteinfuttermittel und...

Cost-benefit analysis and social welfare functions are two closely related methods to evaluate impacts of policies on humans (producers, consumers etc.) and animals. In cost-benefit analysis, the impacts on animals are currently either disclosed as intangible impacts or monetised from the human...

Dairycalf welfare is receiving increasing public attention. To ensure optimal practices, farmers need to engage and be mindful of unethical behavior. However, avoiding information on animal welfare is common and often driven by willful ignorance. We conduct an exploratory analysis on survey data...