Adolfo Sansolini’s comments on the potential for farm animal welfare in Latin America after his presence at the 5th International Livestock Forum in Medellin.
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They are called sow stalls in Europe and gestation crates in America. They are instruments of confinement for sows, which are trapped within narrow metal bars for most of their lives…
Dr Alexander Rabitsch, veterinarian with extensive experience as an animal transport inspector in Austria, published the book ‘Animal Transport – Assertions and Reality’
moreThe EU Court of Justice has found Italy and Greece guilty of breaching the EU Directive for the welfare of laying hens, but no fine has been imposed on them.
moreAdolfo Sansolini is among the people included in the book Blessed Peacemakers: 365 Extraordinary People Who Changed the World by Kerry Walters and Robin Jarrell
moreLeading UK supermarkets launched inspections into their chicken supplies after the outcomes of a five-month investigation conducted by the Guardian were published.
moreMeat producers lose corporate ‘free-speech’ case
Defeat of North American meat producers in their challenge to the USDA labelling rules that make it compulsory to show where animals are born, raised and slaughtered…
Expo Agrofuturo is the most important academic and business event for the agricultural sector in Colombia. I have gladly accepted their invitation to speak on 4 September on ‘Opportunities for livestock profitability through animal welfare’.
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The Directorate-General for Health and Consumers of the European Commission (DG SANCO) recently launched a study on the welfare of dogs and cats involved in commercial practices in the EU Member States. Inputs can be sent until the end of July 2014.
moreAlasdair Cochrane, Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Sheffield, is among the BBC’s New Generation Thinkers 2014. His research is “an analysis of animal rights and how international politics might take animals into consideration when producing new policies”.
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