Animal Health and Welfare Strategy for Great Britain
The Evidence Base
A Work in Progress
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Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Scope
1.3 Status
1.4 Contents
2 Livestock keeping in Great Britain
2.1 General population trends
2.2 Dairy cattle
2.3 Beef cattle
2.4 Sheep
2.5 Pigs
2.6 Poultry
2.7 Labour
2.8 Livestock stocking densities
2.9 Farm assurance schemes
3 Economic prospects
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Profitability of livestock farmers, compared with other sectors
3.3 Prospects for farm incomes
3.4 Farm gate prices
3.5 Expenditure on veterinary and medical products and services:
4 The livestock and meat industry
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Livestock movements within Great Britain
4.3 Cattle movements
4.4 Sheep movements
4.5 Pig movements
4.6 Overseas trade in live animals
4.7 Distance from farm to markets and slaughterhouses
4.8 Farm to market
4.9 Farm to slaughterhouse
4.10 Livestock marketing and meat production in Great Britain
4.11 Household consumption of meat and meat products
5 Disease
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Notifiable disease
5.3 Anthrax
5.4 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
5.5 Scrapie
5.6 Bovine Tuberculosis
5.7 Brucellosis
5.8 Classical Swine Fever (CSF)
5.9 Contagious Equine Metritis
5.10 Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
5.11 Paramyxovirus
5.12 Zoonoses
5.13 Salmonella
5.14 Multiple antimicrobial resistant salmonella serotypes
5.15 Endemic disease
6 Vets and research
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Vets in the public sector
6.3 Vets in the private sector
6.4 Distance from livestock holdings to veterinary practices in England
6.5 Expenditure on research into animal health and welfare
7 Animal welfare
7.1 Animal welfare advice for farmers
7.2 Research into animal welfare
7.3 Livestock welfare inspections
7.4 State Veterinary Service inspections
7.5 The RSPCA and SSPCA
8 Companion animals, horses and aquaculture
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Pets and companion animals
8.3 Exotic diseases in dogs and cats
8.4 Quarantine and Pets Travel Scheme (PETS) statistics
8.5 Horses
8.6 Riding schools and instructors
8.7 Other equine professions
8.8 Horse welfare
8.9 Movement of horses and horse breeding
8.10 Mammals
8.11 Birds
8.12 Aquaculture
9 Contact details
10 Indicators
10.1 Purpose
10.2 Role of indicators
10.3 Characteristics of a good indicator
10.4 Indicators for the Animal Health Welfare Strategy