Developing Direction of Livestock Production and Animal Welfare in Future

The animal welfare has received very much attention from the international community.It has already been an independent science which has separated from animal behavioristics or animal science.Now,special scientific methods have been established to evaluate animal welfare.The animal welfare will be more considered in the future animal husbandry production,and a series of production models will be established to achieve economic benefits of animal husbandry and to relieve animal' s pain as much as possible.The production models with a best balance between animal production and animal welfare are the developing direction of animal husbandry and animal welfare in future.