Posted June 19, 2014

The Center for Animal Wellbeing is hosting the fourth annual symposium August 7 on advances and current issues in food animal wellbeing, according to a Division of Agriculture press release available here.
Registration for the one-day symposium is $25, and it will be in the Giffels Auditorium inside the Old Main building at the University of Arkansas.
Yvonne Vizzier Thaxton, director for the Center for Food Animal Wellbeing, said “I am thrilled that this year we have an extraordinary roster of speakers with international reputations to speak on animal welfare and related issues of current interest to those of us in animal agriculture.”
Speakers include Joy Mench, University of California at Davis; Temple Grandin, Colorado State University; David Newman, North Dakota State University; Paige Glover, Aviagen Poultry; Mark Cooper, Cobb-Vantress, Inc.; the Farm Foundation; and Janeal Yancy and Elizabeth Rumley, both with the University of Arkansas.
The Center for Food Animal Wellbeing’s goal is to “improve animal health, animal handling, food safety, and productivity by developing and defining objective measures of wellbeing including measures of behavior, stress, physiology, neurophysiology, immunology, microbiology, and production efficiency,” said Thaxton.
Registration information and the program are available here.
For more information on animal welfare, please visit the National Agricultural Law Center’s website here.
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