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Posts by Roi Mandel Briefer

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The author has been working in the field of Animal Welfare Science for 10 years. He is currently working as an assistant professor at the Section for Animal Welfare and Disease Control, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Which is more harmful to animals – dairy or beef production? An animal welfare scientist explains the answer, and it might surprise you.

Which is more harmful to animals – dairy or beef production? An animal welfare scientist explains the answer, and it might surprise you.

Feb 22, 2023

In this guest blog, animal welfare scientist Dr. Roi Mandel Briefer explains how a recent study debunks the common misconception that raising cattle for meat is more harmful than raising them for dairy

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They "make fine-grained social discriminations about the individuals around them, not just generic responses to familiar versus unfamiliar stimulus categories."

Cows have best friends, get visibly stressed when separated from them, and have measurably lower heart rates when reunited — and the dairy industry has known this since at least 2011

The behavioural data on cow social bonding is roughly fifteen years old, methodologically sound, and almost never makes it into the way milk gets sold.

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"An international panel of experts, led by the University of Innsbruck and the Tyrolean University of Education, has published two complementary reports that define a

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"In April, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May presented a petition to the House of Commons asking the government to pass legislation “recognizing animals as the

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