Well-welfare and it’s prospect in animal production

Abstract

Animal welfare presents premises of concern with the production animal, since it has the right to express its natural behavior and to have access to its physiological, psychological and behavioral needs. Studies show an increase in production and reproduction when the animal has access to the five freedoms, since the animal with a good genetics can express all its productive or reproductive potential, according to its abilities, besides improving the quality of the final product. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to raise the prospects and influence of animal welfare in production, its interference in productivity and economy. Within these production perspectives, animal welfare provides greater profitability, as the profile of an ethical consumer arises, who wishes to buy food of animal origin that has been under welfare conditions during its life cycle until slaughter, where the animal does not suffered from suffering and can express its production and reproduction potential, in addition to meeting the requirements of the foreign market.