Should animal welfare be included in educational programs? attitudes of secondary and university students from eight eu countries

• Autores: Niloofar Pejman, Zein Kallas, Lourdes Reig Puig, Antonio Velarde Calvo, María Angeles Moreno
• Localización: XIII Congreso de Economía Agroalimentaria / coord. por María Dolores de Miguel Gómez; Narciso Arcas Lario (dir.), 2021, ISBN 978-84-17853-43-3, págs. 183-186
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Animal Welfare educational programs aim to promote positive attitudes of future generations towards animal production systems. This study investigated whether secondary and university students in the majors that are not related to AW teaching believe that this concept should be included also in their educational programs. The determinant factors affecting students’ attitudes towards such a decision were analysed. This research has focused on eight European countries (Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, Greece, Lithuania, Romania, Italy, and Sweden) targeting 3,881 respondents composed of 1,952 secondary and 1,929 university students. Results showed that female university students with a level of subjective and objective knowledge on AW and who required more restrictive AW regulations, gave support to include the concept in their educational programs. However, Students who support medical experiments that use animals to improve human health were less likely to accept AW education. Students ...