Feeding, Nutritional, and Welfare Management of Livestock: Practice and Regulation
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Farm Animal Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2024) | Viewed by 536
Special Issue Editor
Interests: animal welfare; slaughterhouse; epidemiology; risk assessment; food
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the global population continues to increase, food production has became an essential element of human development. It is therefore essential to produce means of utilizing resources, including animals used in the food industry. Among the many emerging problems in the livestock industry, ensuring adequate nutrition in the healthiest environment for farmed animals has become a challenge that concerns not only those in the industry, but also veterinarians and policy makers. This Special Issue aims to investigate state-of-the-art and future evolutions in the field of nutrition and welfare in livestock farming; thus, it will focus on many aspects concerning nutrition in livestock farming propaedeutics to a proper application of European and international rules on animal welfare and will guarantee higher-quality final products. For this, multidisciplinary research in the form of commentaries and articles is also highly sought.
Dr. Giancarlo Bozzo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- animal feeding
- animal welfare regulation
- livestock
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