Lion Eggs Trade Briefing – ACMSF report
The current advice that vulnerable groups should avoid raw or lightly cooked eggs was set in the late 1980s, following …
The current advice that vulnerable groups should avoid raw or lightly cooked eggs was set in the late 1980s, following …
Egg producers in the EU had more than a decade to adapt to Directive 1999/74/ EC which prohibits keeping laying hens in battery cages after 2012. Meanwhile, numerous studies have been conducted in order to assess the socio-economic implications of this ban and to evaluate consumers’ willingness to support improvement in layer welfare by paying …
The attributes of egg production that elicitvalues-based responses include the price and availability of eggs, environmental impacts, food safety or health concerns, and animal welfare. Different social groups have distinct interests regarding the sustainability of egg production that reflect these diverse values. Current scientifically based knowledge about how values and attitudes in these groups can …
Hans-Wilhelm Windhorst, IEC Statistical Analyst
Animal welfare related issues have been intensely discussed in recent years as a consequence of changes in public attitudes and regulatory reforms that are taking place in many countries. A combination of public opinion pressure and trade policy has driven requirements for regulation and the World Trade Organization (WTO) assigned the World Organization for Animal …
This article highlights some key areas where economics can contribute to the current debate about animal welfare. Production economics reveals that producers will not maximize animal welfare, even if animal well-being is highly correlated with output. Welfare economics raises thorny issues about the doublecounting of benefits when humans exhibit altruism towards animals, while public economics …
Future costs of compliance with obligatory animal welfare standards in the EU for poultry and egg production are signiWcant and may lead to relocation of production to third countries. After an overview of diVerent rationales for complementary policies to prevent relocation, this article systematically compares such policies. Some policies, like multilateral agreements and labelling, may …
Rising affluence in major developing countries (principally China and India) and increasing diversion of agricultural resources for energy production (USA …
Changes in both farm production and food transport have resulted in the imposition of new levels of environmental costs. This …
The global poultry sector is divided into a large-scale commercial sub-sector dominated by international, vertically integrated companies, and a small-scale …
Conventional cage housing for laying hens evolved as a cost-effective egg production system. Complying with mandated hen housing alternatives would raise marginal production costs and require sizable capital investment. California data indicate that shifts from conventional cages to barn housing would likely cause farm-level cost increases of about 40% per dozen. The US data on …
Research received from the United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service (USDA ERS) comparing the retail price and nutritional …
This paper is the report of a meeting that gathered many of the UK’s most senior animal scientists with representatives of the farming industry, consumer groups, animal welfare groups, and environmentalists. There was strong consensus that the current economic structure of agriculture cannot adequately address major issues of concern to society: farm incomes, food security …
Producers commonly feed commercial leghorns based on flock average feed intake to control egg size and nutrient intake. However, results …
This article presents a model to calculate the level of ammonia emission from commercial layer houses. The first part of …
Report produced by Professor Windhorst analysing The Netherlands’ recent sectoral and regional patterns, as well as its foreign trade relations.
A report prepared for the United Egg Producers (UEP) by Promar International as a result of an independent economic study that they commissioned.