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Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare

Humane Canada | Posted on June 16, 2017July 13, 2022

The Five Freedoms is a core concept in animal welfare that originated in a UK government report in 1965 and was then refined by the Farm Animal Welfare Council. It states that an animal’s primary welfare needs can be met by safeguarding the following five freedoms:

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