...intensively housed livestock, stated that, "Welfare is a wide term that embraces both the physical and the mental well-being of the animal. Any attempt to evaluate...animals that can be derived from their structure and function and also from their behaviour" (Command Paper 2836, 1965). Hughes (1976) defined welfare as...

...adapt, its well-being is assured.325 Welfare is a wide term that embraces both the physical and the mental well-being of the animal. Any attempt to evaluate...therefore, must take into account the scientific evidence (emphasis added) available concerning the feelings of animals that can be derived from their structure...

...probably appear unacceptable in the future. Welfare was defined not only in terms of health, but as being 'a wide term that embraces both the physical and mental...well-being of the animal. Any attempt to evaluate welfare must take into account the scientific evidence available concerning the feelings of animals that can...