Faculty of Health and Medical Science

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For the Sake of Production—And the Animal, and Me. How Students at Danish Agricultural Colleges Perceive AnimalWelfare

The purpose of this study was to examine how perceptions of animal welfare develop among prospectiv…

Moral Convictions and Meat Consumption — A Comparative Study of the Animal Ethics Orientations of Consumers of Pork in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden

The relationship between animal ethics orientations and consumer demand for welfare-enhanced por…

Exploratory behaviour towards novel objects is associated with enhanced learning in young horses

This study presents the first evidence of a link between object-directed curiosity and learning…

Breeding schemes for intervertebral disc disease in Dachshunds: Is disc calcification score preferable to genotyping of the FGF4 retrogene insertion on CFA12?

Approximately every fifth Dachshund is affected by disc herniation - a painful, hereditary conditio…

Development and consistency of fearfulness in horses from foal to adult

Understanding the development and consistency of behavioural responses across life stages is of bot…

Owner-related reasons matter more than behavioural problems - a study of why owners relinquished dogs and cats to a Danish animal shelter from 1996 to 2017

Every year, dogs and cats are relinquished to animal shelters by their owners in large numbers.…

Benchmarking Farm Animal Welfare — A Novel Tool for Cross-Country Comparison Applied to Pig Production and Pork Consumption

By P. Sandøe, H. O. Hansen, H. L. H. Rhode, H. Houe, C. Palmer, B. Forkman, T. Christensen (2020)…

What Is so Positive about Positive Animal Welfare? - A Critical Review of the Literature

By A. B. Lawrence, B. Vigors & P. Sandøe (2019) Animals. MDPI Abstract It is claimed that positive…

Benchmarking farm animal welfare – Ethical considerations when developing a tool for cross-country comparison

By P. Sandøe, H. O. Hansen, H. H. Kristensen, T. Christensen, H. Houe & B. Forkman Preprint…

When the working environment is bad, you take it out on the animals – Lessons from employees on Danish farms

By I. Anneberg & P. Sandøe (2019) Food Ethics. Springer Nature Switzerland Abstract Little is…