Problem
Inadequate feeding of animals
Other Names:
Inadequate animal nutritionInadequate feeding of farm animals
Nature:
Insufficient nutrition of animals or an inadequate balance in their diet causes emaciation, death, anaemia, stress, and contributes to the severity of diseases such as mange.
Incidence:
The problem may occur as a result of drought or insufficient pastureland. It may be because of negligence or ignorance, or lack of financial means to provide adequate feeding. Alternatively, it may be deliberate, as with the production of white veal, where calves are deprived of all roughage and fed only on milk substitutes which induces anaemia. They suffer severe stress because of this, and may try to obtain fibre from the wooden crates in which they are housed.
Broader Problems:
Cruelty to animals Inadequate animal husbandryDenial to working animals of restorative nourishment and restDenial to animals of the right to the attention, care and protection of humankind Narrower Problems:
Scarcity of animal fodder Aggravates:
MangeAnimal diseasesAnimal infertilityAnimal stress in factory farmingInferior meat quality from intensive animal farming units Values:
InadequacyMalnutrition Subject(s):
Agriculture, Fisheries → Animal feedstuffs??Agriculture, Fisheries → Farming??
Health Care → Nutrition??
Societal Problems → Inadequacy??
Zoology → Animals??
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
12.08.2019 – 15:24 CEST