Animal Health & Welfare Strategy's vision
The Strategy’s vision describes the world of animal health and welfare that we want to create by 2014:
- Animals in Great Britain kept for food, farming, sport, companionship, entertainment and in zoos are healthy and treated humanely
- Our disease status is amongst the highest in the world, and we are able to trade our animals and animal products internationally
- The costs of livestock health and welfare are appropriately balanced between industry, and the taxpayer
- All disease emergencies are dealt with swiftly and effectively using an agreed approach
- Consumers value the confidence they have in food produced safely from healthy animals that are well cared for. Consumers and retailers accept that higher standards of animal health and welfare are not cost free
- Livestock keeping is part of a competitive British farming industry which succeeds by meeting the needs of consumers at home and abroad, producing food safely and to high standards of health and welfare
The Strategy identifies five themes –
important ways of working – needed to deliver the world described
in the vision.
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May 23, 2008