LRI & CGIAR, 2021

ILRI.(2021). Keeping livestock healthy and well cared for improves animal, human, environment and economic health. Livestock pathways to 2030: One Health Brief 5. Nairobi: International Livestock Research Institute. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/e9f3e3bf-c95f-4731- 8595-502aa738a165

Keeping livestock healthy and well cared for improves animal, human, environment and economic health

• Animal welfare boosts health One Health

Case studies

Subjecting chickens to stress on their journeys to slaughter increases their levels of shedding of Campylobacter, a bacteria
which can cause diarrhoeal disease in people who go on to eat the under-cooked meat

Poor livestock handling and transportation lead to injuries and bruising in animals and subsequent losses of meat post-slaughter. For example, in Uruguay such practices resulted in an average 900g of meat lost per animal slaughtered.