Cesarani Alberto, Pulina Giuseppe
Animal and Dairy Science Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
Department of Agraria, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy.
Animals (Basel). 2021 Mar 6;11(3):724. doi: 10.3390/ani11030724.
The concept of welfare applied to farm animals has undergone a remarkable evolution. The growing awareness of citizens pushes farmers to guarantee the highest possible level of welfare to their animals. New perspectives could be opened for animal welfare reasoning around the concept of domestic, especially farm, animals as partial human artifacts. Therefore, it is important to understand how much a particular behavior of a farm animal is far from the natural one of its ancestors. This paper is a contribution to better understand the role of genetics of the farm animals on their behavior. This means that the naïve approach to animal welfare regarding returning animals to their natural state should be challenged and that welfare assessment should be considered.
应用于农场动物的福利概念经历了显著的演变。公民意识的不断提高促使农民为其动物保证尽可能高的福利水平。围绕家养动物，特别是农场动物作为部分人类制品的概念进行动物福利推理，可能会开辟新的视角。因此，了解农场动物的特定行为与其祖先的自然行为相差多少非常重要。本文有助于更好地理解农场动物的遗传学对其行为的作用。这意味着，关于让动物回归自然状态的简单化动物福利方法应受到质疑，并且应考虑福利评估。
