Abordaje práctico sobre cómo mejorar el bienestar en los bovinos

Current challenges of humanity require a new paradigm for animal production, and invest time and attention to the development of new production techniques that take into account the principles of sustainability and animal welfare science. To do this, we must be committed to promoting animal welfare and health, ensure environmental sustainability, consumer satisfaction and profitability for producers. To change our relationship with animals there is no need for changes in market conditions or large investments, it is enough to know better the needs of the animals we raise, the management system adapted to its characteristics. Even in the most favorable management conditions, on farms that have technological resources and trained personnel, there is much to change, especially in the daily management of the animals. Some of the risks more evident in the traditional systems of beef production are: problems during parturition, morbidity and mortality of calves, lack of shade in the pastures, improper handling of animals, risk of injury, inadequate infrastructure, poor management practices during routine processing (marking, castration, vaccination, dehorning), poor welfare during loading, transport, unloading and slaughter. To remedy this, you can adopt good management practices, which have been shown to reduce risk and improve the welfare of cattle in different stages of the production chain. The objective of this review is to show some of the risks that reduce the welfare of cattle and examples of how the adoption of best management practices impact on improving the productivity of these production systems. Finally, some indicators for assessing welfare in production systems are shown.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Os limites do corpo: modificações corporais

El cuerpo presenta rastros de la historia y cultura de las sociedades por toda la historia de la humanidad. El presente estudio quiere, através de pesquisas sobre el cuerpo, entender como las modificaiones corporales han acompañado la historia del hombre, de las tribus antiguas hasta la atualidad y como son hoy los procedimientos de cambiar la forma física. Através de trabajo de campo conocer profisionales que hacen algunos tipos de modificaciones corporales y gente que las tienen en sus cuerpos, entender las razones para que cambien sus cuerpos permanentemente - en la mayoria de los casos - y como la idea de individualidad surge cuando se hace una marca personal en el cuerpo. Además, compreender el porque esas prácticas se están convirtiendo cada vez mas común en nuestra sociedade actual

Educação para o desenvolvimento sustentável: o papel da Universidade

The University is responsible for the stablishment of citizens with critical thinking, based on current concepts, capable of a dynamic and participative attitude in the community in which these professinals will be inserted. Education at environmental sustainability, permeated by the articulation among knowledge, social, and cultural phenomena, brings the challenge of incorporating skills, providing essential values not only for understanding the historical relations between human beings and the environment, but also to improving the quality of life. The “World Conference on Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century: Vision and Action" guides the educational process by its mission to train citizens professionals, highly informed, motivated, integrated and able to create a society based on love of humanity and wisdom. The balancing among the basic functions of teaching, research and extension within the University contributes to the student to take ownership of the construction of his own knowledge in a perspective of integral formation of the human being, aware of his social responsibility and policy for a society environmentally sound. This paper aims to, guided by literature review, present some considerations on the role of the University in education for environmental sustainability.

A sátira limabarretiana em Numa e a Ninfa

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)