Can farm animal welfare be understood without taking into account the issues of emotion and cognition?

Although the concept of welfare makes reference to feelings of individual animals, the exact nature of these feelings and their relationship to emotions and cognitive abilities of the animals under consideration are never detailed. Based on the concepts of stress and coping, an extensive list of indicators of physical health, production, behavior, and physiology has […]

From an animal’s point of view: Motivation, fitness, and animal welfare