G. John Benson & Bernard E. Rollin 
The Well-Being of Farm Animals 
Challenges and Solutions

The Well-Being of Farm Animals: Challenges and Solutions is
the first title in Blackwell Publishing Professional’s
groundbreaking series Issues in Animal Bioethics. This important
book examines the ethical and economic importance of production
animal well-being and pain management–topics of increasing
concern to consumers.

The Well-Being of Farm Animals: Challenges and Solutions
offers veterinarians, veterinary and agriculture students, animal
scientists, and food animal producers both practical methods to
enhance farm animal well-being, and greater understanding of the
theoretical underpinnings of those methods. With a variety of
perspectives from respected experts and specialists, this book
conveys new research findings and promotes valuable discourse on
critical issues. Most importantly, editors Benson and Rollin
provide feasible instruction to put theory into practice.

The theories and applications presented in this book are likely
to be legislated in the future. Therefore, it is important for
veterinarians in production animal medicine to keep abreast of the
latest issues in promoting animal well-being, and implement sound
animal welfare methods every day. The Well-Being of Farm
Animals: Challenges and Solutions provides the information
veterinarians need to do both.

Table of Content

Contributors.

Preface..

I. Theoretical Framework.

1. The Ethical Imperative to Control Pain and Suffering in Farm
Animals (Bernard E. Rollin).

2. Human-Livestock Interaction (Paul H. Hemsweorth).

3. Quality of Life for Farm Animals: Linking Science, Ethics,
and Animal Welfare (David Fraser and Daniel M. Weary).

4. Pain in Farm Animals: Nature, Recognition, and Management (G.
John Benson).

5. A Concept of Welfare Based on Feelings (Ian J. H.
Duncan).

6. Meeting Physical Needs: Environmental Management of
Well-Being (Ted H. Friend).

7. Principles for Handing Grazing Animals (Temple Grandin).

8. Principles for the Design of Handling Facilities and
Transport Systems (Temple Grandin).

II. Practical Applications.

10. Production Practice sand Well-Being: Beef Cattle (Joseph M.
Stookey and Jon M. Watts).

11. Animal Well-Being in the U. S. Dairy Industry (Franklyn B.
Garry).

12. Production Practices and Well-Being; Swine.(Timothy E.
Blackwell).

13. Maximizing Well-Being and Minimizing Pain and Suffering:
Sheep (Cleon V. Kimberling and Gerilyn A. Parsons).

14. Welfare Problems of Poultry (Ian J. H. Duncan).

15. Rethinking Painful Management Practices (Daniel M. Wary and
David Fraser).

16. Alternatives to Conventional Livestock Production Methods
(Michael C. Appleby).

17. Euthanasia (Robert E. Meyer and W. E. Morgan Morrow).

Appendix: U. S. and Canadian Veterinary Medical Associations
Positions on Food Animals.

Index.

About the author

G. John Benson, DVM, MS, is a professor and Chief of
Anesthesiology in Veterinary Clinical Medicine at the University of
Illinois, Urbana. Dr. Benson also holds joint appointments in the
Department s of Veterinary Pathobiology (Comparative Medicine
Division) and Veterinary Biosciences (Pharmacology
Division).

Bernard E. Rollin, Ph D, is University Distinguished
Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Physiology, and Animal
Sciences , as well as University Bioethicist at Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, Dr. Rollin is the founder of the fields
of veterinary medical ethics and is a principal architect of laws
protecting laboratory animals. He addressed animal welfare as the
keynote speaker at the 2003 American Dairy Science
Association/American Society of Animal Science joint meeting.