Abstract
Editorial: Improving Animal Welfare through Genetic Selection.
Highlights
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts that the projected massive global increase in demand for livestock products will continue for several decades
While more precise production technologies, nutrition, and genetic selection methodologies will be successful in reducing the “yield gap,” the production is limited by finite resources including land, water, and energy, emphasizing the need for intensification
Continuous selection for high production in livestock has resulted in animals that have been shown to be more at risk for behavioral, physiological, and immunological problems
Summary
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts that the projected massive global increase in demand for livestock products will continue for several decades. Intensification of livestock production in particular includes an important additional factor to the sustainability equation: the living animal.
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