respond to this type of concerns, animal welfare preferences have to be related to the cost of ~. This paper
reports on an application of conjoint analysis to evaluate pig welfare perceptions of both consumer-related respomlets a~l
pig welfare experts. Economics of the pig welfare concerns was evaluated, using an economic pork chain simulatiom model,
including the farrowing, fattening and slaughtering stages and the transportation of pigs between these stages. Results
showed that the farm stages farrowing and fattening were considered most important with respect to pig welfage, lmlmttam
pig welfare attributes included group housing of non-lactating sows, supply of straw ~ stock density. Respoudel~ were
rather heterogenous with respect to their individual quantifications, but no significant difference in respouse could be fomgl
between experts and consumer-related respondenLs. In total, pig production and dist~ibutiou costs were increased by 22 to
32% when all pig welfare attributes were included in the pork wodnction-marketing chain. Further reseatgh is Wpposed to
b'dance animal welfore and economic aspects in an inte~'ated manner. © 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.