@book{6706d58c408147739eac6f39a47b8d5f,
title = "A Good Animal Life: Bringing awareness of animal sentience into farming practice",
abstract = "The {\textquoteleft}Good Life{\textquoteright} concept is used increasingly by livestock industry stakeholders to indicate their aspiration to move towards high {\textquoteleft}positive welfare{\textquoteright} standards in UK animal production. However, scientifically this concept is relatively under-developed. Farmers tend to rely for guidance on well-embedded cultural farming symbols such as good feed, housing and health, but for further development of the {\textquoteleft}Good Life{\textquoteright} notion an untapped source is their direct lived engagement with animals as sentient beings. Greater accreditation of this relationship could increase well-being in both animals and farmers.",
keywords = "Good life, Animal welfare, Qualitative behaviour assessment (QBA), Livestock industry, animal sentience",
author = "Francoise Wemelsfelder and Belinda Vigors and Alistair Lawrence",
year = "2022",
month = may,
day = "10",
language = "English",
series = "Research Briefing",
publisher = "SRUC's Rural Policy Centre",
}