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What Constitutes Animal Well-Being?

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Domestication of animals was not a deliberate exploitation of nature but rather a spin-off of humankind’s relentless drive to control the environment (8). The roots of domestication lie in the natural contacts between prehistoric humans and animals in activities such as hunting and trapping, but the process could not flourish until agriculture started, about 8,000 years ago (73).

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Curtis, S.E. (1985). What Constitutes Animal Well-Being?. In: Moberg, G.P. (eds) Animal Stress. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7544-6_1

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