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The Strategy’s vision describes the world of animal health and
welfare that we want to create by 2014:
- Animals in Great Britain kept for food, farming, sport, companionship,
entertainment and in zoos are healthy and treated humanely
- Our disease status is amongst the highest in the world, and we are
able to trade our animals and animal products internationally
- The costs of livestock health and welfare are appropriately balanced
between industry, and the taxpayer
- All disease emergencies are dealt with swiftly and effectively using
an agreed approach
- Consumers value the confidence they have in food produced safely
from healthy animals that are well cared for. Consumers and retailers
accept that higher standards of animal health and welfare are not cost
free
- Livestock keeping is part of a competitive British farming industry
which succeeds by meeting the needs of consumers at home and abroad,
producing food safely and to high standards of health and welfare
The Strategy identifies five themes –
important ways of working – needed to deliver the world described
in the vision.
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