What do consumers think about farm animal production?
Insights from a systematic literature reviewThe public are an important stakeholder at the end of the food chain, and as they are the end-users of food products, their opinions need to be taken into consideration in order to produce food that meets their needs. However, ...
Improving piglet survival: How can genetics and management contribute?
As we apply genetic selection for more prolific sows, the challenges for piglet survival increase; piglets are smaller and more vulnerable at birth, face greater competition for the vital early colostrum intake, and are thus more at risk of dying from hypothermia, starvation and crushing. ...
Does genetic selection for feed efficiency make pigs more susceptible to production diseases?
Results of three experimental studies conducted by PROHEALTH A set of experiments of PROHEALTH was designed to investigate a hypothesis about genetic selection in pigs that has been repeatedly formulated, but so far was lacking scientific evidence: It was hypothesized that improved productive traits (e.g. growing ...
Food security and farming intensity
Sustainable Intensification of agricultural production, i.e. producing more from less, has been promoted as the way forward in meeting the challenges of global food security. This is relevant to the objectives of PROHEALTH, which focuses on sustainable control of production diseases in intensive pig and poultry ...