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News 22 July - 4 August 2021

Cross-sectoral

SEEKING APPLICANTS: The Daylight Project Council (TAWC, Apply HERE)
Understanding consumers attitudes to animal welfare (AHDB O/S)
Battery cages, duck shooting, whips – RSPCA Vic calls time on big animal welfare issues (Mirage News)
Tyson Foods integrates the five domains of animal welfare across its global operations (The Cattle Site O/S)
Planet-Score: New eco-label factors in pesticides, biodiversity and animal welfare (Food Navigator O/S)
ASPCA: Are they really helping or hurting animals? (AgDaily O/S)
New Red Tractor standards equip British Farms for the future (Red Tractor O/S)
CP Foods unveils new humane farming model for swine and poultry (The Pig Site O/S)
Bank Australia rejects RMAC, AgForce concerns about misconduct (Farm Weekly)
Bank Australia’s ethics tested (Banking Day)

Cattle in beef & dairy production

Lotfeeder Stockyard secures Australian agriculture’s first sustainability-linked loan (Beef Central)
New bank loan to beef business linked to meeting targets on emissions and animal welfare (ABC)

Pigs in pork production

Converting to free farrowing systems could cost the industry £200 million (Pig Progress O/S)
Biomarkers Offer Potential as Animal Welfare Indicators (Farmscape O/S)
Saving the bacon: will British pig farmers survive a ban on cages? (The Guardian O/S)
US pig industry watches California’s Prop 12 rule (Pig Progress O/S)

Poultry in meat & egg production

French egg industry backs chick culling ban, calls for EU-wide extension (Euractiv O/S)
Study: effects of different types of fiber-rich feed on welfare in broiler breeder pullets (The Poultry Site O/S)
Chickens died of thirst and dead birds left to rot at suppliers to Tesco, Sainsbury, Lidl and KFC (The Independent O/S)
100% cage-free eggs in US Krispy Kreme donuts by 2022 (Watt Poultry O/S)
SE Asian hospitality sector moves toward cage-free eggs (Poultry World O/S)
Cage-free eggs: US food companies under pressure (Poultry World O/S)
Broiler welfare improvements need to be shared with consumers (Watt Poultry O/S)
French Lab-Grown Meat Startup Makes Foie Gras More Appealing Than Ever (Forbes O/S)
KFC drops a C-bomb and finally talks about chicken welfare (The Drum O/S)

Sheep in meat & wool production

Funding boost for flystrike vaccine research (Sheep Central)
Could 'sky shepherd' drones be better at mustering sheep than working dogs? (ABC)
Sheep not shorn for a year - long bans for animal cruelty cases (QLD Country Life)

Animals in transit & at slaughter

DAWE investigating new reports of alleged ESCAS non-complaince in UAE (Sheep Central)
Abattoir in Jordan suspended from receiving Australian sheep after animal welfare breach (ABC)
RSPCA Australia calls for sheep exporter’s suspension (Sheep Central)
ESCAS complaint filed over sheep treatment in Jordan facility (Sheep Central)
Live exporter slams banks for hypocrisy over lending practices (ABC)
Horse racing: Inside the abattoir slaughtering racehorses (BBC O/S)

Animals in aquaculture

RSPCA clears Mowi Scotland after activist’s welfare abuse claim (Fishfarming Expert O/S)
Mowi Scotland responds to fresh animal welfare complaints (SeaFoodSource O/S)
Investigation launched into footage of lice infested salmon (The Ferret O/S)
‘There are many myths surrounding fish farming’: How aquaculture is leveraging tech for an economically and environmentally bright future (Food Navigator O/S)

Animals in research & teaching

The failure of animal testing (Ecologist O/S)
Major US chinchilla supplier heads to court with more than 100 animal welfare violations (National Geographic O/S)
Science Organisations Pledge Openness In Animal Research And Teaching In New Zealand (Scoop O/S)
Attitudes towards experimenting on monkeys are diverging (The Economist O/S)

Animals in racing & sport

Standards for the care and treatment of rodeo livestock NCCAW Position Statement (Pro Rodeo Australia)
#FutureHorse survey to identify what works for welfare in horse industries (Vet Practice)
HRI to conduct probe into racehorse slaughter claims (RTE O/S)
Horse-racing bosses condemn abattoir practices (BBC O/S)

Animals in zoos, aquaria & the wild

Injured sharks and turtle trouble at Napier's National Aquarium (RNZ O/S)
How an app helped Lincoln Park Zoo measure how animals reacted during Covid closures (ChicagoInno O/S)
Humane Australian breakthrough in feral pig control with poison bait, Hoggone (ABC)

Pets & companion animals

Risks in using side reins on horses identified in study (Horsetalk NZ O/S)
Animal Welfare Board issues advisory to states and UTs to ban caging of aerial birds (India Today O/S)

Podcasts & presentations

CV4Animals: Computer Vision for Animal Behavior Tracking and Modeling – Presentations (CV4Animals O/S)

Policy

EU implements first animal welfare-based condition in trade agreement (Euractiv O/S)
Taxes that are returned to livestock farmers may hold the key to sustainable agriculture (The Pig Site O/S)
EU: Ending the ‘Cage Age’, further studies are needed (Pig333 O/S)
Supreme Court denies meat industry petition seeking review of California's Prop 12 (AgWeek O/S)

Other/Publications

Another Life: How far does pain extend in the living world? (Irish Times O/S)
Eurogroup for Animals Magazine (Eurogroup O/S)
Students evaluate animal care with a keen eye (Hoard’s Dairyman O/S)
Jane Goodall reveals what studying chimpanzees teaches us about human nature (Vox O/S)
Man v food: is lab-grown meat really going to solve our nasty agriculture problem? (Guardian O/S)
This documentary wants to convince you to be a vegan … some of the time (Fast Company O/S)
Two men charged with animal cruelty after allegedly punching police horses during Sydney anti-lockdown protests (9 News)
International Society for Applied Ethology, papers by members – Pigs, Beef/Dairy Cattle, Dogs (ISAE)
Recent advances in animal welfare science VIII 2021 Conference Scientific Program & abstracts (UFAW)
Recent advances in animal welfare science VIII 2021 Conference Recordings (UFAW)
Recent advances in animal welfare science VIII 2021 Conference Poster Abstracts (UFAW)
Bremhorst, A., Mills, D.S., Würbel, H. et al. Evaluating the accuracy of facial expressions as emotion indicators across contexts in dogs. Anim Cogn (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-021-01532-1
V. H. B. Ferreira, V. Guesdon & L. Calandreau (2021) How can the research on chicken cognition improve chicken welfare: a perspective review, World's Poultry Science Journal, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00439339.2021.1924920

Narayan Edward, McElligott Alan, Tilbrook Alan. Editorial: Animal Welfare Assessment: Edition 1. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, VOLUME 8, 2021, 436. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fvets.2021.653422
Neethirajan Suresh. The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Assessing Affective States in Livestock. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 8, 2021, 879. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fvets.2021.715261
Springer S, Sandøe P, Grimm H, Corr SA, Kristensen AT, et al. (2021) Managing conflicting ethical concerns in modern small animal practice—A comparative study of veterinarian’s decision ethics in Austria, Denmark and the UK. PLOS ONE 16(6): e0253420. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253420
Taylor, R., A D , Coetsee, A.L., Doyle, R.E., Sutherland, D. and Parrott, M.L. 2021). Sniffing out danger: rapid antipredator training of an endangered marsupial. Aust Mammology. Online Early. https://www.publish.csiro.au/am/AM20048

Conferences, Seminars & Events

DIARY HOLD – Animal Welfare Horizons 2021, Brisbane, 29^th November. Express interest on TAWC Webpage
DIARY HOLD – The National Primary Industries Animal Welfare Strategy 11^th Annual Forum, Brisbane. 30^th November – Further details to be announced. Express interest on NAWRDES Webpage
54^th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology (on-line). 2 – 6 August. (ISAE 2021)
National Livestock Wellbeing Seminar series. 10 August (The Univ Adelaide – Proposed bid for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Animal Pain Solutions (CAPS).
Dean’s Seminar, “Effects of human interactions on domesticated animals: positive or negative effects?” Professor Paul Hemsworth. 17 August, 12.00pm (The Univ Melbourne – Register)
8th International Conference on The Assessment of Animal Welfare at Farm and Group Level. 16-19 August – Virtual Conference. (WAFL)
11th World Virtual Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences 22-27 August. (WC11)
2021 Animal Welfare Foundation Discussion Forum (Virtual). 15 September. (AWF)
One Welfare World Conference – Virtual. 15-16 Sept 2021. (OneWelfareWorld)
76th WAZA Annual Conference, virtual, 11-14 October. Details TBA
12th International Working Dog Conference, Oct. 12-14 (IWDC 2021)
LIVEXchange, Nov 10 – 11. Darwin. (LIVEXchange)
Australasian Pig Science Association Conference. Brisbane, 15 – 18 November. (APSA)
2nd Australian Biosecurity Symposium, Gold Coast, 1-3 December. Details.
European Assn of Zoos and Aquaria first Animal Welfare Forum. 21 – 24 March 2022,The Netherlands. (EAZA)
Australian Association of Animal Sciences Conference. 5 – 7 July 2022. (AAAS2022)

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