Abstract

Farm animal welfare standards, selected for their diverse nature, assessing the reasons driving their growth and potential to deliver higher standards of animal welfare.
Voluntary/de facto mandatory private global animal welfare standard and certification schemes do raise, potentially, a number of regulatory concerns. One such implication is the potential to undermine the international animal welfare standards of the OIE should private animal welfare standards in the global agri-food chain conflict with the former science based standards agreed upon by the consensus of developed and developing countries.
This chapter evaluates the steps that are being taken to ameliorate such conflict and attempts to analyse this public and private interface in animal welfare standards for food producing animals.