Among the most heated farm animal welfare issues is gestation-sow housing. The use of gestation stalls, 2 X 7-foot enclosures used to house pregnant sows, caused such consternation among members of the AVMA that an AVMA task force was created to evaluate scientific evidence regarding the welfare of sows in gestation housing systems and gestation crates in particular. The task force report concluded that "no one system is clearly better than others...." This conclusion was based largely on objective scientific evidence. Another approach is to consider animal welfare in terms of an animal's quality of life by use of, in part, subjective impressions of the experiences of animals.
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机译：妊娠母猪的住房是最热闹的农场动物福利问题之一。使用妊娠隔间（用于容纳妊娠母猪的2 X 7英尺的围栏）引起了AVMA成员的不安，因此成立了AVMA工作队来评估有关母猪在妊娠住房系统和妊娠箱中的福利的科学证据。特定。工作队的报告得出结论：“没有任何一个系统明显优于其他系统……。”这一结论主要基于客观的科学证据。另一种方法是通过部分地使用对动物经验的主观印象来从动物的生活质量考虑动物福利。
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