Whiting Terry L
Office of the Chief Veterinarian (Manitoba), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
J Appl Anim Welf Sci. 2008;11(2):149-64. doi: 10.1080/10888700801926008.
Any outbreak of an Office International des Epizooties trade-disrupting (previously List-A) disease, such as classical swine fever or foot and mouth disease in a previously disease-free region can have severe consequences for nonhuman animal welfare. In addition to animals destroyed for the purposes of disease eradication, certain preexisting trade patterns may result in welfare slaughter programs affecting many more animals than the disease eradication effort. Welfare slaughter is the destruction of healthy animals to prevent overcrowding on farms under movement restriction and as a consequence of loss of access to live animal export markets. Governments of European countries have anticipated welfare slaughter as part of their disease eradication preparedness. The concept of welfare slaughter and the resource implications thereof have not been included in current, published, livestock disease emergency-planning documents in Canada or the United States. Animal welfare, specifically the killing of healthy animals (not foreign animal disease eradication) has been the focus of public concern in recent disease-eradication efforts in Europe. North American organizations responsible for livestock exotic disease emergency preparedness need to expand their plans to include welfare slaughter.
国际兽疫局规定的任何一种会扰乱贸易的（以前的A类）疾病的爆发，比如在以前无病地区发生的经典猪瘟或口蹄疫，都会对非人类动物的福利产生严重影响。除了为根除疾病而扑杀的动物外，某些先前存在的贸易模式可能导致福利屠宰计划，受影响的动物数量比根除疾病行动中扑杀的动物更多。福利屠宰是指为防止在行动受限的农场过度拥挤以及因无法进入活畜出口市场而对健康动物进行的宰杀。欧洲国家的政府已将福利屠宰作为其疾病根除准备工作的一部分。福利屠宰的概念及其资源影响尚未纳入加拿大或美国目前已发布的家畜疾病应急规划文件中。在欧洲最近的疾病根除工作中，动物福利，特别是健康动物的宰杀（而非外来动物疾病的根除）一直是公众关注的焦点。负责家畜外来疾病应急准备的北美组织需要扩大其计划，将福利屠宰纳入其中。
