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Five Freedoms
Five Domains
1. From hunger and thirst (by providing access to fresh water and a balanced diet to maintain full health)
1. Nutrition (Animals must have access to suitable quantities of a balanced diet of a variety of nutritious foods and water for optimal health)
2. From discomfort (by providing a safe environment, shelter and a comfortable resting place)
2. Environment (Animals must have safe, ample space with suitable temperature, air flow, light and protection from noise for optimal health)
3. From pain, injury and disease (through prevention, rapid diagnosis and treat- ment)
3. Health (Animals must be treated for disease, injury or functional impairment to maintain an appropriate body condi- tion and good fitness)
4. To express normal behaviour (by pro- viding sufficient space, proper facilities and company of the animal’s own kind)
4. Behaviour (Animals must be provided with opportunities to engage in play, explore, move, bond and interact with others of their species, and have suit- able space to retreat and sleep)
5. From fear and distress (by ensuring conditions and treatment which avoid mental suffering)
5. Mental state (An animal’s overall welfare is directly affected by factors of nutrition, environment, health and be- haviour, which all impact on the mental health of animals)
Five Freedoms and Five Domains frameworks.
Five freedoms domain of healthy debate
positive experiences.
The Five Domains also allow thinking to be ex- tended beyond the Five Freedoms – to place even greater emphasis on pro- viding opportunities for animals to be exposed to or engage in activities that provide positive experi-
Though these sows are group housed and therefore have some freedoms, they might not meet the Five Domains model.
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AFTER digesting a de- lectable animal welfare piece in an April edi- tion of Pig Progress by Monique Pairis-Garcia, veterinarian and asso- ciate professor at North Carolina State University in the US, I thought I’d review the RSPCA’s view on the Five Freedoms Animal Welfare model and how it’s standing up to the increasingly ob- served Five Domains model.
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According to the RSPCA ‘knowledge base’, the latter approach allows a distinction to be made between the physical and functional factors that af- fect an animal’s welfare, and the overall mental
from these factors.
Over the past 20 years,
states does not necessarily result in positive welfare, but may only provide, at best, a neutral state.
Prof Pairis-Garcia, Tyson Foods announced last year that it would transi- tion to the Five Domains model and it appeared that other food companies were considering a similar shift.
this paradigm has been widely adopted as a tool for assessing the welfare impacts of research proce- dures, pest animal control methods and other inter- ventions in animals’ lives.
To have good welfare, animals need more than this.
“We must wait to see if the long-standing Five Freedoms remains the foundational piece in which animal welfare policy, legislation and education rely on or if a change to a new ap- proach such as the Five Domains is upon us,” she concluded.
The Five Freedoms and Five Domains frame- works contain essentially the same five elements.
To help ensure animals have a ‘life worth living’, they must have the op- portunity to have positive experiences such as an- ticipation, satisfaction and satiation.
However, the Five Do- mains explore the mental state of an animal in more detail and acknowledge that for every physical as- pect that is affected, there may be an accompanying emotion or subjective ex- perience that may also af- fect welfare.
To enable this, those re- sponsible for the care of animals need to provide them with environments that not only allow but encourage animals to ex- press behaviours that are rewarding.
Tyson Foods Inc is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry.
This is useful in terms of reinforcing the message that emotional needs are as important as physical needs for animals.
This shift in under- standing is the basis for the Five Domains model incorporating positive welfare states.
The company is the world’s second largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork after JBS SA.
One of the most impor- tant strengths of the Five Domains is the clarity it provides that merely min- imising or resolving nega- tive physical or mental
Thus, the Five Domains provide a means of evalu- ating the welfare of an individual or group of ani- mals in a particular situa- tion, with a strong focus on mental well-being and
Tyson Foods Australia operates a food processing facility in Coominya in- Queensland, manufac- turing beef products for the Australian and export markets.
Term ‘pork-barreling’ started as a joke
EVER wondered where the term ‘pork- barrelling’ came from?
Mr Richards said an American author named Edward Everett Hale wrote a short story pub- lished in 1863, in which he portrayed a “back- wards politician at a little polling station with a big barrel of salted pork.”
“But it was a joke, it was just a funny short story,” Mr Richards said.
Well, according to broadcaster and word- smith Kel Richards, ap- parently the term ‘pork- barrelling’ started as a joke, though it was very quickly taken up as a way to describe what politicians could do with taxpayers’ money.
He said the man gave a piece of salted pork to anyone who promised him their vote.
“Ten years later after the American Civil War, it was taken seriously and newspapers started using it as a serious met- aphor for government spending that was in- tended to buy the votes, and it’s been used that way since 1873.”
A little pork trivia.
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