Animal nutrition for the health of animals, human and environment

Janez Salobir (Author), Tamara Frankič (Author), Vida Rezar (Author)

Abstract

Animal nutrition has pronounced direct impact not only on animal health but also indirectly through animal products on human health and through excreta onthe environment. Due to increased awareness and concerns about animal health, due to increased incidence and severity of chronic non-communicable diseases in developed world that are linked to nutritional quality of (animal)food and due to increased concern about climate changes animal nutrition has gained new dimensions and additional importance. The knowledge of various factors involved became crucial for animal production in general and already gave, at least in some aspects, new importance and impulse to animal nutrition also in practice. In the review some most important effects and recent possibilities of animal nutrition to improve animal health, to improve nutritional value of animal products in regard of human health and to reduce environmental impact of animal production are discussed.

Keywords

animal nutrition;animal health;human health;environment;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2012
Typology:	1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
Organization:	UL BF - Biotechnical Faculty
Publisher:	Biotehniška fakulteta
UDC:	636.08
COBISS:	3108232
ISSN:	1854-4800
Views:	2457
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Other data

Secondary language:	Unknown
Secondary keywords:	živinoreja;prehrana živali;zdravje živali;zdravje ljudi;okolje;
URN:	URN:NBN:SI
Type (COBISS):	Not categorized
Pages:	str. 41-49
Issue:	ǂSuppl. ǂ3
Chronology:	2012
Keywords (UDC):	applied sciences;medicine;technology;uporabne znanosti;medicina;tehnika;agriculture and related sciences and techniques;forestry;farming;wildlife exploitation;kmetijstvo ter sorodne vede in tehnologije;animal husbandry and breeding in general;livestock rearing;breeding of domestic animals;živinoreja na splošno;vzreja domačih živali;general questions of breeding and rearing;splošna vprašanja vzreje in selekcije;
ID:	21719