Animal nutrition for the health of animals, human and environment

Salobir, Janez (author), Korošec, Tamara (author), Rezar, Vida (author)

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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: animal nutrition, animal health, human health, environment
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Year: 2012
• Number of pages: Str. 41-49
• Numbering: Suppl. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-425
• UDC: 636.08
• ISSN on article: 1854-4800
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3108232
• Publication date in RUL: 11.07.2014

Record is a part of a proceedings

• Title: Livestock production as a technological and social challenge
• COBISS.SI-ID: 263173888

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta agriculturae slovenica
• Publisher: Biotehniška fakulteta
• ISSN: 1854-4800
• COBISS.SI-ID: 225696256

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown
• Keywords: živinoreja, prehrana živali, zdravje živali, zdravje ljudi, okolje