Animal welfare: a science or not?

Treating animals with care and respect is very important and (I hope) there is hardly any discussion about its importance in animal production. But there seems to be a discussion going on whether ‘animal welfare’ is considered a real science or just a combination of values, emotions and interpretations. But does it really matter? By Emmy Koeleman According to Frauke Ohl, Professor of Laboratory Animals Animal welfare at the Veterinary Faculty of Utrecht University,©the Netherlands