The 17th International Conference on Production Diseases in Farm Animals: Editorial

摘要

The growing demand of an increasing global population for animal derived food and products requires intensive livestock farming. During the past decades, performance across all livestock species worldwide increased continuously. Breeding and husbandry of livestock, however, are also accompanied by a conflict of interest between biological requirements of the animal and economic needs of the producer. This conflict is increasingly gaining attention not only by producers, animal scientists, and veterinarians, but also by the public. An inadequate breeding strategy or animal housing and feeding may lead to production diseases, coming along impaired animal welfare, but also reduced income for the producer, and reduced product quality for the consumer.