Fundamentals of animal welfare in meat animals and consumer attitudes to animal welfare

Assessing citizens’ views on the importance of animal welfare and other sustainability aspects in livestock farming using best–worst scaling

“…As the simultaneous consideration of these aspects gives rise to numerous trade-offs, especially regarding animal welfare, we chose the best-worst scaling approach (BWS) to measure citizens' preferences. We consider our results to make a valuable contribution to the field, as previous research differs from our study in several respects: the selection of the aspects investigated, the context in which aspects were evaluated, the methods used to measure importance levels, and the animal species considered (Lusk et al, 2007;Vanhonacker et al, 2007;Sackett et al, 2013;Spooner et al, 2014;Tuyttens et al, 2014;Caracciolo et al, 2016;Cummins et al, 2016;Vanhonacker et al, 2016;Ventura et al, 2016;Verain et al, 2016;Ellison et al, 2017;Grunert et al, 2018;Heise and Theuvsen, 2018;Sonntag et al, 2019a;Faucitano et al, 2022;Schmiess and Lusk, 2022;Schütz et al, 2023). A comparison of the importance levels of the aspects we investigated with previous studies is therefore only possible to a limited extent, which should be kept in mind in the following discussion of the results.…”

“…In a qualitative study by Ventura et al (2016), aspects related to housing conditions, such as pasture and/ or outdoor access or space and freedom to exhibit behaviors, were also considered highly important (i.e., just after fresh food and water). A study conducted among European consumers showed that among several aspects (e.g., outdoor access, sufficient space, and exhibiting natural behavior), the largest percentage of respondents rated sufficient space as the most important aspect (Faucitano et al, 2022). Similarly, Sato et al (2017) found that the majority of consumers considered sufficient freedom of movement as a key aspect of an ideal pig husbandry system.…”

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“…Le consumatrici e i consumatori dei Paesi economicamente più avanzati effettuano le loro scelte alimentari tenendo sempre più in considerazione il tema del benessere e della sofferenza animale (Fucitano et al 2022). Se per benessere si intende la qualità della vita di un animale così come viene percepita dal singolo animale, si può ben comprendere come il punto critico è rappresentato soprattutto dagli allevamenti intensivi, che comportano gravi sofferenze agli animali costretti a vivere in spazi limitati senza poter adottare dei comportamenti congruenti alla loro natura.…”