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.
