"The longer you transport a farm animal, the greater the stress and the more likelihood of suffering" he said.
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is moving research on farm animal viruses from Compton to Pirbright, Surrey.
In the short term, more practical ideas have been suggested by the Farm Animal Welfare council, an expert body which advises the government.
The invention of a superior harness enabled a horse to pull loads of far greater weight for longer periods of time, making the horse the primary farm animal.
Some zoologists and naturalists have said there may be as many as 100 big cats at large in the UK and they back up this claim with reference to sightings, photos, paw casts, farm animal carcasses, and video footage.
What is more, it strikes me as perfectly possible that the overall welfare of a wild seal, suddenly killed on an ice floe, is better than the life endured by an intensively reared farm animal killed on a production line after being driven to an abattoir on a lorry.
Luckey would not divulge on which farm the animal was found.
She is currently completing a degree in English literature studying, among other books, George Orwell's Animal Farm and William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
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One publisher during the war, who had initially accepted Animal Farm, subsequently turned it down after an official at the British Ministry of Information warned him off.
Across the farm, there were numerous animal carcasses in various states of decomposition.
Mr Dalli addressed MEPs following reports over the summer that meat from a cloned animal on a farm in the Scottish Highlands had entered the food chain.
As well as animal welfare concerns over rearing large numbers of farm animals in close proximity, the water use, farmland for animal feed, waste and greenhouse-gas emissions associated with meat production make it one of the most significant environmental problems in the world today.
The USDA says that since the discovery of the infected cow, they have identified 10 different feed suppliers that delivered animal feed to the farm.
It is the source of almost 4% of the world's greenhouse gases, mostly in the form of methane from rotting food and that does not include all the methane generated by animal slurry and other farm waste.
Cattle can only move onto a TB restricted farm prior to the completion of a veterinary risk assessment and completion of a TB test, carried out 60 days after an infected animal has left the farm.
James Gray, 46, who lived at Spindle Farm, Amersham, was jailed for animal cruelty offences.
The head of the Food Standards Agency, Sir John Krebs, said a loophole under existing rules meant beef was exempt from strict controls if the animal was killed on a farm or at an unlicensed abattoir for the farmer's personal consumption.
The mysterious animal which killed lambs on a farm in Llanuwchllyn was killed by a local farmer in 1995.
Pembrokeshire council said one of its senior animal health officers had visited Great Redford Farm near Narberth on 18 November and examined a carcass.
The animal had escaped from a fenced pasture on the farm of Laurier Sauve, who let others keep cattle there.
Campbell said he grew up on a dairy farm and for a long time held to the belief that animal protein was an essential part of a healthy diet.
Having resolved the problem, the farm now boasts an environment and heritage centre which teaches children about animal welfare and horticulture.
This summer, Denmark's powerful farm lobby is under siege from an unusual coalition of environmentalists, animal-welfare people and the tourism industry.
Five-month-old Darwin was transferred to Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary in Sunderland, Ontario, after spending the night in a city animal shelter.
The dogs on his farm were seized by the court, and the most damaged were sent to an animal sanctuary in Utah for rehabilitation.
Cotswold Farm Park, run by Countryfile presenter Adam Henson, follows "best practice" with animal contact and hand washing procedures, a statement said.
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In addition to Big Drama, the farm stands Leroidesanimaux, champion male turf horse in 2005 and sire of 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, who won the Eclipse Award for champion 3-year-old.
Today, the Reinsch cottonseed has much better things to do than stay on the farm, and thanks to the farmers' marketing efforts, it is much too valuable to use as animal feed.
Vedran Bogdanovic, a veterinarian and dairy farm manager of close to 400 cows in Kapelna, Croatia, says Farmeron helped him meet laws for animal tracking and sales and also for reporting animal deaths to insurance companies.
Then in April the plight of one animal captured the imagination of the public when Phoenix the calf was spared from the cull on a Devon farm after surviving for five days under a mound of slaughtered cattle.
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