Lemos Teixeira Dayane, Larraín Rafael, Melo Oscar, Hötzel María José
Departamento de Ciencias Animales, Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Laboratório de Etologia Aplicada, Departamento de Zootecnia e Desenvolvimento Rural, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
PLoS One. 2018 Jan 5;13(1):e0190671. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190671. eCollection 2018.
Recent publications have shown that citizens in developing nations are gaining interest in farm animal welfare. The aims of this study were to assess the opinion of Chilean citizens about surgical castration without anaesthesia and lack of access to pasture in beef cattle production, to investigate how involvement in livestock production influences opinions, and to evaluate if different types of information would affect their opinion towards these management practices. The study was carried out in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile, and consisted of two surveys with 400 participants in each study. The first one used an online, self-administered questionnaire and the second one used a face to face questionnaire. The second questionnaire had four information treatments assigned randomly to survey participants (no information; negative information; negative and positive information; positive information). Most participants were aware that the two management practices are common in beef production systems and were opposed to them. Involvement in animal production was associated with greater acceptance of both management practices and participants that had visited a beef production farm before the study were more likely to support castration without anaesthesia in Survey 1. Belonging to any socioeconomic group and providing negative or positive information had no impact on participants' opinion. The results show a disconnection between the views of participants recruited for this study and beef production systems that do not provide pain control for male cattle surgical castration or provide little or no access to pasture.
近期的出版物表明，发展中国家的公民对农场动物福利越来越感兴趣。本研究的目的是评估智利公民对肉牛生产中无麻醉去势和缺乏放牧机会的看法，调查参与畜牧生产如何影响看法，并评估不同类型的信息是否会影响他们对这些管理做法的看法。该研究在智利圣地亚哥首都大区进行，包括两项调查，每项调查有400名参与者。第一项调查使用在线自填问卷，第二项调查使用面对面问卷。第二项问卷有四种信息处理方式，随机分配给调查参与者（无信息；负面信息；负面和正面信息；正面信息）。大多数参与者都知道这两种管理做法在肉牛生产系统中很常见，并反对这些做法。参与动物生产与对这两种管理做法的更大接受度相关，并且在研究前参观过肉牛生产农场的参与者在调查1中更有可能支持无麻醉去势。属于任何社会经济群体以及提供负面或正面信息对参与者的看法没有影响。结果表明，参与本研究的参与者的观点与那些在公牛手术去势时不提供疼痛控制或几乎不提供放牧机会的肉牛生产系统之间存在脱节。
