Animal wellbeing
From Goodness Community
What is animal wellbeing
Animal welbeing refers to the state of the animal; the treatment that an animal receives is covered by other terms such as animal care, animal husbandry, and humane treatment. Protecting an animal's welbeing means providing for its physical and mental needs.
Animal wellbeing for different situations
- Kept by humans for consumption or as pet
- Livestock (cows, chickens, pigs and other animals kept in farms)
- Fish farms (Fish & Crustaceans????)
- Pets (e.g. dogs, cats, birds)
- Wild live
- Land & Air life
- Marine life (animals living on land and in the air?)
- Animal farming (e.g. cows, goats & sheep for milk or meat, pigs, chickens for eggs & meat)
- Fish farming
- Hunting & Marine / Inland Fishing
- Animal testing (e.g. cosmetics)
- Animal labour (Monkeys in harvesting coconuts)
- Marine life affected by water pollution, e.g. due to plastic litter
Keurmerken expert: Ronald van Marlen (beter voor varken en boer)
