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News 7 - 20 April 2023

Cross-sectoral

Cattle in beef & dairy production

18K cattle killed in Texas dairy farm explosion, one of deadliest fires involving animals (ABC 7 New York O/S)
Mastitis control: small changes, big results (AHDB O/S)

Pigs in pork production

Local ag science startup Nutt Bio researches alternative for pork producers (Memphis Inno O/S)

Poultry in meat & egg production

Sheep in meat & wool production

Animals in transit & at slaughter

Animals in aquaculture and wild caught

Industrialized octopus? Exposed Nueva Pescanova plans deepen ethical concerns as world-first farm awaits approval (Food Ingredients First O/S)

Animals in research & teaching

Animals in racing, sports & work

Animals in zoos, aquaria & the wild

What happens to animals who die at the zoo? (Keloland O/S)

Pets & companion animals

The case against pet ownership (Vox O/S)

Podcasts & presentations

Policy

Other/Publications

Animal Welfare Institute Quarterly Spring 2023, Vol 72, Number 1.
Lehmann, Cathleen, and Inken Christoph-Schulz. "Is animal welfare of great importance when purchasing poultry meat?-Results from cross-national focus groups with consumers." International Journal on Food System Dynamics 14, no. 2 (2023): 197-211. https://doi.org/10.18461/ijfsd.v14i2.F5
Berkes, J., Ollier, C., Faletar, I., Christoph-Schulz, I., & Mergenthaler, M. (2023). Change talk: Levels of adaptability to the livestock sector transformation. International Journal on Food System Dynamics, 14(2), 166-176. https://dx.doi.org/10.18461/ijfsd.v14i2.F3
Larsen, M. L., Wang, M., Willems, S., Liu, D., & Norton, T. (2023). Automatic detection of locomotor play in young pigs: A proof of concept. Biosystems Engineering, 229, 154-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2023.03.006
Blemings, B., Zhang, P., & Neill, C. L. (2023). Where is the value? The impacts of sow gestation crate laws on pork supply and consumer value perceptions. Food Policy, 117, 102447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102447
Kim, S.M.; Cho, G.J. Analysis of Various Facial Expressions of Horses as a Welfare Indicator Using Deep Learning. Vet. Sci. 2023, 10, 283. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci10040283
Ameli, K.; Braun, T.F.; Krämer, S. Animal-Assisted Interventions and Animal Welfare—An Exploratory Survey in Germany. Animals 2023, 13, 1324. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13081324
van den Boogaart, L., Slabbekoorn, H., & Scherer, L. (2023). Prioritization of fish welfare issues in European salmonid aquaculture using the Delphi method. Aquaculture, 739557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2023.739557
de Azevedo, C.S.; Cipreste, C.F.; Pizzutto, C.S.; Young, R.J. Review of the Effects of Enclosure Complexity and Design on the Behaviour and Physiology of Zoo Animals. Animals 2023, 13, 1277. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13081277
Lourenço da Silva MI, Almeida Paz ICdL, Jacinto AS, Nascimento Filho MA, Oliveira ABSd, et al. (2023) Providing environmental enrichments can reduce subclinical spondylolisthesis prevalence without affecting performance in broiler chickens. PLOS ONE 18(4): e0284087. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284087
Dong, SL., Zhou, YG. (2023). Health Maintenance and Welfare of Aquatic Animals. In: Dong, SL., Tian, XL., Gao, QF., Dong, YW. (eds) Aquaculture Ecology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5486-3_13

Conferences, Seminars & Events

Animal Behaviour and Welfare by Professor Nat Waran through Coursera, offered by The University of Edinburgh. Starts 18^th April 2023 (Details)
Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative Animal Law, submission deadline March 15 2023, 25 – 26 May 2023 (University of Kent)
2023 Animal Welfare Symposium & Workshop – Sustainable Welfare Driving Research by Deakin University, sponsored by Techniplast Australia. 30 – 31 May 2023 (Details)
International Society for Anthrozoology 2023 Conference, June 15^th – 18^th, Edinburgh, UK (Details TBA)
UFAW Animal Welfare Conference, 20^th – 21^st June 2023 – Online (Details)
International Society for Applied Ethology, Congress. 1^st – 5^th August, 2023, Tallinn, Estonia (ISAE)
2023 ANZCCART Conference, 10 August 2023 3pm, Adelaide, SA (Details TBA)
Behaviour 2023.14^th – 20^th August 2023, Univ Bielefeld, Germany. (Behaviour2023)
ANZLAA 2023 Conference, Pullman Melbourne Albert Park, VIC, Australia, 28 – 31 August 2023. (Details)
The 3^rd Conservation through sustainable use of wildlife conference. 26 – 28 September 2023, Brisbane, Australia. (Details)

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