This book brings together a range of scientific perspectives from biomedical research on stress and welfare, and assesses new approaches to conceptualizing and alleviating stress. While much of the focus in on conventional farm animals, there is also consideration of fishes, laboratory animals and...

This chapter outlines the interrelationships between nutrition, the immune system and the endocrine system, which serve as targets for stress-related metabolic perturbations in animals. Recognizing how defined biochemical reactions are altered in stress is a key to developing nutritional and...