Pages
-
Recent Posts
- 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.
- Future of intensive livestock farming: R.I.P?
- Reflection on running science as a business
- How (not) to excel in doing well?
- Publications on AMI sensors
- Comparing overall welfare across species and conditions
Categories
Tags
- Agriculture
- Animals
- animal welfare
- Art
- Branched chains
- Circular
- Constraints
- Cruelty
- CV
- Deer
- Disruptive thinking
- Editor responsibilities
- Ethics
- Farming
- Fattening pigs
- Floor-directed behaviour
- food
- Golden Rule
- Growing pigs
- Humans
- In memoriam
- Integrity
- Introduction
- Livestock
- Needs
- Novelty
- Objectives
- Paper
- Paradigm
- personal
- Pigs
- Project
- Rooting
- Scientific reviewing
- Sows
- Species
- Sustainability
- Transparency
- Weaned pigs
- Welfare score
Archives
Donate
If you like my personal views, you may consider making a donation. It's highly appreciated.
Ads:
Tag Archives: Disruptive thinking
An essential element of sustainable, circular farming: Integrity & a circular welfare economy
This blog post argues to recognize the importance of an often forgotten element of sustainability: Integrity. In particular, I will argue that honesty and emotions are necessary elements of a sustainable, circular agricultural economy. Sustainability Sustainability is often perceived as … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Food, Future, Justice, Money, Semantics
Tagged animal welfare, Animals, Circular, Disruptive thinking, Integrity, Livestock, Needs, Pigs, Sustainability, Transparency
Leave a comment
How would I spend 10 billion to improve the Netherlands? I’d burn it.
How would I spend 10 billion € to improve the Netherlands? NRC newspaper asked readers to write a short answer to this question. This is my answer: Seven opinionators already gave their answer (NRC 16 aug, 2017). Each had a … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Future, Geen categorie, Happiness, Justice, Money, Objectives, Politics
Tagged animal welfare, Disruptive thinking, Editor responsibilities, Integrity, Objectives
Leave a comment
Future of intensive livestock farming: R.I.P?
Debate At the moment the future of intensive livestock farming is intensively debated in the Netherlands. The province of Noord-Brabant may be the first to actually limit the number of farm animals. The Dutch meat inspection (NVWA) is heavily criticized for … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Food, Future, Happiness, Public, Videos
Tagged animal welfare, Disruptive thinking, Farming, In memoriam, Livestock, Pigs
Leave a comment
How (not) to excel in doing well?
Well, well, well People sometimes think we are rational animals. Like animals we behave, but unlike animals we have the capacity to behave (more) rationally. And not just that: with rationality comes our more or less unique capacity of being … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Constraints, Semantics
Tagged animal welfare, Disruptive thinking, Humans, Objectives
Leave a comment
Animation of Banksy’s jumping orca
In the summer of 2015 the graffity artist Banksy opened a theme park called Dismaland. One of the exhibits showed a sculpture of a big killer whale jumping out of a toilet bowl, through a hoop and into a plastic … Continue reading
