Introduction Gestation sow housing remains a controversial issue today. In a variety of empirical and theoretical scholarly works, the advantages and disadvantages of three types of pregnant sow housing have been assessed and debated with regard to animal welfare and production outcomes. Even though more and more scholars and practitioners...

When people go to the grocery store to grab their essentials, most of them probably don’t think about where their favorite important products came from. They come across eggs and milk in the dairy section and compare the prices between farms whose animals are free-range and the farms where animals...

Animal testing belongs to one of the most contested issues of these days. With the growing interest in the use of cosmetics, which is produced after being tested on animals, many questions whether such animal treatment should be allowed at all. Given the fact that animal testing has played a...

Introduction While some animal activists are against animal testing in any form, most people recognize a distinction between using animals for cosmetic testing and the testing of experimental medical treatment using animals. While testing cosmetics on animals is not technically necessary anymore and seems to border on cruelty, many medical...

It was early in the morning when I opened my door and heard a weird sound outside. Once I was down the stairs, I saw an image that filled me with compassion. A bird was lying there with what seemed like a broken left foot and I knew that there...