The project "The future developments in farm animal breeding and reproduction and its ethical, legal and consumer implications" (ELSA) lasted from 1998-1999 and was financed by the EU 4th Framework programme for RTD.

ELSA aimed at making farm animal breeding and reproduction developments more transparent for both industry and society. This project was set up to explore the legal, ethical and consumer issues raised by the modern animal breeding sector following growing public interest in genetically modified crops and cloning.

The project resulted in a broad overview of farm animal breeding in Europe and its technical, economical and society constraints and possibilities. However, it also pointed out that the alternative systems for breeding and reproduction need to be worked out more into detail because of the unknown economic and social risks of these pathways.

Read more about the results from ELSA at the page Breeding is...

For ELSA publications please click here.

- Press Release
- Project Report
- Proceedings (Full)
- Summary
- Sally Keeble
- Scenarios
- Ethics
- Consumer
- Legal Aspects
- Economy
- Technologies
- Powerpoint