Resources
The purpose of the fellowship is primarily to broaden fellows’ network and provide a general overview of the issues. Our programme includes guest speakers who are experts in the topic areas.
The articles below are written and compiled by the team to further cover foundational knowledge about farmed animal welfare that might not be discussed in-depth during the sessions.
The target audience is for the fellows of our programme but is also open for anyone interested to learn more about the issues surrounding industrialised animal agriculture — and creating a more sustainable food system.
(1) The Farmed Animal Protection Movement
(2) Facts & Figures
(UPDATES IN PROGRESS…)
Land Animals Being Farmed for Food
Aquatic Animals Being Farmed for Food
Consumption of Animal Products
(3) Industrial Animal Agriculture & Farmed Animals’ Welfare
For thousands of years, humans have domesticated several species of animal for food - for their meat, milk and eggs. These include cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. Through selective breeding, humans have established many breeds of these animals, with each breed having desirable characteristics that make them suitable for being reared for food.
These articles introduce the general characteristics of the species most commonly farmed for food in Asia. This is to give a sense of the nature of these different animals, before we look in more detail about how they are raised on intensive farming operations.
We will see that unfortunately, in the increasingly intensified animal agriculture system, these complex, intelligent, sentient animals are prevented from engaging in many or all of their natural activities and behaviours as described.
(4) Other Welfare Issues
9 billion land animals
In Southeast Asia, around 9 billion land animals are farmed for food each year and is increasing (FAO stats, 2021).
We need to ensure that the food system is a humane and sustainable one.
