Negotiating welfare in daily farm practice: how employees on Danish farms perceive animal welfare

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Little is known about how employees on husbandry farms perceive animal welfare and about factors influencing the relationship between them and the animals in daily work. Today, Danish farms are mainly family-owned, and the employees are often of other nationalities, and one third are unskilled. The aim of this paper is to document how employees perceive animal welfare and to discuss how they deal with ethical assumptions in daily work. The paper reports the findings of qualitative interviews with 23 employees from five Danish farms (mink, dairy and pig production). Employees emphasise physical aspects of animal welfare relating to feed, water and health. However, some employees described naturalness, which is known to be of importance to the public, as an area that could be negotiated. Some issues, like pain, were also negotiated, especially pain imposed on the animals by the employees themselves. Getting used to impose pain in daily work was described as a working condition in the job which one had to accept. A negative relationship among employees and managers as well as lack of credit also related to animal welfare and were described as creating a worse situation for the animals.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProfessionals in food chains : EurSafe 2018
RedaktørerSvenja Springer, Herwig Grimm
Antal sider6
ForlagWageningen Academic Publishers
Publikationsdato2018
Sider60-65
Kapitel7
ISBN (Trykt)978-90-8686-321-1
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-90-8686-869-8
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2018
Begivenhed Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics: Professionals in food chains - Wien, Østrig
Varighed: 13 jun. 201816 jun. 2018
Konferencens nummer: 14

Konference

Konference Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics
Nummer14
LandØstrig
ByWien
Periode13/06/201816/06/2018

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