Farm Animals

A guide for livestock exhibits at public events.

GAO recommends that the Secretaries of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and the Interior develop a strategy to address barriers to agency collaboration that may allow potentially risky imported animals into the United States and jointly determine data needs to effectively oversee imported animals. In commenting on a draft of this report, the Departments of Agriculture, Interior and Homeland Security generally agreed with GAO's findings and recommendations. The Department of Health and Human Services provided technical comments only.

Sustaining Animal Agriculture: Balancing Bioethical, Economic, and Social Issues--Recognizing the fact that food-animal agriculture is rapidly evolving through inputs from diverse sectors, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed and hosted a symposium for discussion of these issues. Titled Sustaining Animal Agriculture: Balancing Bioethical, Economic, and Social Issues, the meeting was held on June 8 - 10, 2010 at the Jefferson Auditorium, South Agriculture Building, Washington, D. C.

Links to full-text of 4 peer-reviewed papers that will be published in the journal Poultry Science about egg production, laying hen housing, and egg safety.

The purpose of the forum was to try to identify the current circumstances surrounding "unwanted horses," whether there are such horses, and if there are, how many there are, the causes of their being unwanted, and the possible solutions and available options to help them.

Provides a web resource for international farm animal welfare standards, practices and policies.

An independent advisory body established to review the welfare of farm animals on agricultural land, at market, in transit and at the place of slaughter.

Provides information about welfare audits, humane slaughter of livestock, design of animal facilities, animal welfare, and behavior. Information from Dr. Temple Grandin, Department of Animal Science.

Position statements covering recommendations on antimicrobial use, euthanasia, abuse, pain, and other important animal welfare concerns.

Full text Codes of Practice and recommendations for minimum standards for livestock and other species are available at this site. Humane treatment of livestock during transport, slaughter, and sale yards covered.

The purpose of the 2006 symposium is to discuss some of the complicated international trade issues related to the welfare of food animals during production, transportation, and processing, including how the interaction of diverse organizations, government and industry impact management decisions. We will provide the perspectives of persons in advocacy and industry organizations, academia, and government, on these critical food animal welfare situations.

These papers present the animal welfare issue within topics such as animal exhibits and fairs, fish in commercial aquaculture, animal production, fur farming, and hunting.