养殖企业从业人员“动物福利”社会态度研究

A study on social attitudes of employees in farming industry towards animal welfare

1 525份有效问卷的调查表明,中国畜牧行业大多数从业人员对动物福利有基本的认知。如75.4%的从业人员听说过动物福利,76.5%的从业人员赞成就动物福利立法,强迫生产者为猪鸡提供良好的生长和生存条件等。从业人员普遍认同动物的生理福利和环境福利,但对行为福利等却认知不足。从业人员在赞同动物福利的同时,又不太愿意因推行动物福利而承担过大的成本,如59.8%的从业者只愿意承担因遵守动物福利而导致5%及以下的成本增加。

It is shown that,from a survey including 1 525 effective questionaires,most of the employees working in farm animal rearing industries in China have fundamental awareness of animal welfare,for example,75.4% of the employees have heard of the concept of animal welfare;76.5% of the employees support legislation on animal welfare so as to force entreprises to provide satisfying growing and living conditions for pig,laying hen and broiler.While generally thinking that,to animals,there exist both physiological welfare and environmental welfare,the employees seem to have ignored the behavioral welfare of animals.Though supporting the animal welfare,the employees are,to some degree,reluctant to support the animal welfare in terms of excess cost,for example,59.8% of the employees are willing to afford only no more than 5% increased cost resulted from more strict animal welfare standards.