Noun
The protection of animals' health with appropriate accommodation, nutrition and care.
The safeguarding of animals in a laboratory or similar environment with a code of practice, enforced by legislation or regulation.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAnimal welfare issues have always been important to me. Cathy Guisewite
The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong. Julian Baggini
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers. Zac Goldsmith
I'm very much into animal welfare. Teresa Palmer
[No-deal Brexit] won't return sovereignty, it will put us at the mercy of Trump and the big US corporations dying to get their teeth into our NHS, sound the death knell for our steel industry and strip back our food standards and animal welfare protections. Jeremy Corbyn
Animal welfare As a consequence of his monistic philosophy, Schopenhauer was very concerned about the welfare of animals. Source: Internet