{"id":19640,"date":"2017-07-06T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=19640"},"modified":"2017-07-06T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:35:10","slug":"addressing-consumer-concerns-animal-welfare-and-the-swine-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/addressing-consumer-concerns-animal-welfare-and-the-swine-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"ADDRESSING CONSUMER CONCERNS: ANIMAL WELFARE AND THE SWINE INDUSTRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific understanding and measurement of animal welfare is no longer limited to production\u00a0parameters but also includes the physical, environmental, nutritional, behavioral and social needs of the\u00a0animal or groups of animals under the care, supervision or influence of people. Addressing these needs\u00a0should decrease stress (a good thing for animals) and improve performance (a good thing for producers.)<\/p>\n<p>The public has started to demand public assurances (guidelines, certifications, audits) that producers are\u00a0raising animals in an acceptable manner. The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of\u00a0some of the recent programs that have been developed in the United States to provide public assurance\u00a0about animal welfare .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ADDRESSING-CONSUMER-CONCERNS-ANIMAL-WELFARE.pdf\">ADDRESSING CONSUMER CONCERNS- ANIMAL WELFARE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific understanding and measurement of animal welfare is no longer limited to production\u00a0parameters but also includes the physical, environmental, nutritional, behavioral and social needs of the\u00a0animal or groups of animals under the care, supervision or influence of people. Addressing these needs\u00a0should decrease stress (a good thing for animals) and improve performance (a good thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,928],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19642,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640\/revisions\/19642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}