This is Marc Bracke‘s personal website. I have a background in veterinary medicine, applied ethology and philosophy. In my work I developed ‘semantic modelling’. This is a method to ‘translate’ scientific knowledge into welfare scores. Using this method I built various computer-based decision support systems. The models are used to calculate welfare scores for pigs, cattle, poultry and fish. This website, however, is not about my work. It is about my personal interests.
Interests
I’m interested in the physical and mental health of animals. This inclusies their natural behaviour, animal cognition, evolution, emotion and welfare. I’m also interested in the related questions about animal and human perception, knowledge and ethics.
Marc Bracke
This website
On this website you can find (links to) my CV and things I am interested in personally. Main objectives include the expression of personal interests as well as exploring the use of this website for communication. Hence, this site should be regarded as being ‘tentative’ and ‘under construction’ (see also the Disclaimer).
Overview of posts
- Abstract
- Towards long(er) pig tails: New strategy to solve animal welfare problems
- Expert elicitation in animal welfare risk assessment – methods and limitations
- PigChase
- Animal welfare
- How can we feed the world?
- Branched chains as enrichment for pigs (technical description, pictures and video)
- Art
- Future of intensive livestock farming: R.I.P?
- How (not) to excel in doing well?
- Animation of Banksy’s jumping orca
- Protected: WUR logo – Forum animation
- Protected: Panda
- Enrichment
- Did European pig-welfare legislation reduce pig welfare? Perhaps not, but experts confirm that common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all, except perhaps for an enhanced novel branched-chains design.
- Branched chains as enrichment for pigs (technical description, pictures and video)
- Ethics
- Did European pig-welfare legislation reduce pig welfare? Perhaps not, but experts confirm that common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all, except perhaps for an enhanced novel branched-chains design.
- How can we feed the world?
- Pig animation – Improved, branched chain design as proper enrichment for pigs
- An essential element of sustainable, circular farming: Integrity & a circular welfare economy
- How would I spend 10 billion to improve the Netherlands? I’d burn it.
- Reflection on running science as a business
- Horror slaughterhouse to be memorial centre of compassion?
- Happiness: Fact or fiction – Good or bad?
- Plea for Ag-gag in the Netherlands
- Protected: Ethics of scientific reviewing
- Experts
- Did European pig-welfare legislation reduce pig welfare? Perhaps not, but experts confirm that common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all, except perhaps for an enhanced novel branched-chains design.
- Comparing overall welfare across species and conditions
- Do pigs play with chains? Science versus society
- Expert elicitation in animal welfare risk assessment – methods and limitations
- Food
- How can we feed the world?
- An essential element of sustainable, circular farming: Integrity & a circular welfare economy
- Future of intensive livestock farming: R.I.P?
- Plea for Ag-gag in the Netherlands
- Future
- Did European pig-welfare legislation reduce pig welfare? Perhaps not, but experts confirm that common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all, except perhaps for an enhanced novel branched-chains design.
- How can we feed the world?
- An essential element of sustainable, circular farming: Integrity & a circular welfare economy
- How would I spend 10 billion to improve the Netherlands? I’d burn it.
- Future of intensive livestock farming: R.I.P?
- Horror slaughterhouse to be memorial centre of compassion?
- Geen categorie
- How would I spend 10 billion to improve the Netherlands? I’d burn it.
- Comparing the welfare needs of poultry, pigs, fish and humans
- Redirected behaviour – What is it and why is it important?
- PigChase
- Happiness
- How can we feed the world?
- Pig animation – Improved, branched chain design as proper enrichment for pigs
- How would I spend 10 billion to improve the Netherlands? I’d burn it.
- Future of intensive livestock farming: R.I.P?
- Comparing overall welfare across species and conditions
- Horror slaughterhouse to be memorial centre of compassion?
- Happiness: Fact or fiction – Good or bad?
- Justice
- Did European pig-welfare legislation reduce pig welfare? Perhaps not, but experts confirm that common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all, except perhaps for an enhanced novel branched-chains design.
- An essential element of sustainable, circular farming: Integrity & a circular welfare economy
- How would I spend 10 billion to improve the Netherlands? I’d burn it.
- Reflection on running science as a business
- Modelling
- Did European pig-welfare legislation reduce pig welfare? Perhaps not, but experts confirm that common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all, except perhaps for an enhanced novel branched-chains design.
- Comparing overall welfare across species and conditions
- Comparing the welfare needs of poultry, pigs, fish and humans
- Protected: Welfare attributes and needs
- Principles of semantic modelling and risk assessment
- Expert elicitation in animal welfare risk assessment – methods and limitations
- Protected: Semantic modelling
- Money
- How can we feed the world?
- An essential element of sustainable, circular farming: Integrity & a circular welfare economy
- How would I spend 10 billion to improve the Netherlands? I’d burn it.
- Reflection on running science as a business
- Horror slaughterhouse to be memorial centre of compassion?
- Animation of Banksy’s jumping orca
- Objectives
- How would I spend 10 billion to improve the Netherlands? I’d burn it.
- Towards long(er) pig tails: New strategy to solve animal welfare problems
- Pigs
- Did European pig-welfare legislation reduce pig welfare? Perhaps not, but experts confirm that common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all, except perhaps for an enhanced novel branched-chains design.
- Branched chains as enrichment for pigs (technical description, pictures and video)
- Politics
- Did European pig-welfare legislation reduce pig welfare? Perhaps not, but experts confirm that common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all, except perhaps for an enhanced novel branched-chains design.
- How can we feed the world?
- How would I spend 10 billion to improve the Netherlands? I’d burn it.
- Reflection on running science as a business
- Plea for Ag-gag in the Netherlands
- Public
- How can we feed the world?
- Future of intensive livestock farming: R.I.P?
- Horror slaughterhouse to be memorial centre of compassion?
- Do pigs play with chains? Science versus society
- Science
- Did European pig-welfare legislation reduce pig welfare? Perhaps not, but experts confirm that common indestructible materials are not proper enrichment for pigs at all, except perhaps for an enhanced novel branched-chains design.
- How can we feed the world?
- Reflection on running science as a business
- Publications on AMI sensors
- Oh my deer, I’m so hungry – A student project proposal
- Do pigs play with chains? Science versus society
- Semantics
- An essential element of sustainable, circular farming: Integrity & a circular welfare economy
- Reflection on running science as a business
- How (not) to excel in doing well?
- Comparing overall welfare across species and conditions
- Protected: Welfare attributes and needs
- Do pigs play with chains? Science versus society
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