Hot Topics

• Horse care in Canada, Horse Welfare Alliance of Canada - horsewelfare.ca
• Learn more about the issues that matter, both to you as a consumer and to the farmers who produce your food @ the farm animal care blog - www.letstalkfarmanimals.ca

Following are are excerpts from Livestock Welfare INSIGHTS. The articles are saved as PDFs - if needed click here to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader program.

Research

• Cages versus Cage-Free Systems for Laying Hens
• Pain Research
  • Farm Animal Pain Research, inexpensive, easy-to-use on-farm strategies
  • Use of Pain Management, survey of Canadian veterinarians
• Humane Alternative Developed for Rabbit Stunning
• Foraging & Feather Pecking in Laying Hens

Quality Assurance

• The EU's Welfare Quality Project, "Science and society improving animal welfare"
• Farm Animal Welfare: The new towel of Babel
• Values Matter - Linking Science & Ethics
• Renewal of the Code of Practice Process
• Linking Food Safety & Animal Welfare, ensuring standards are complementary
• Biosecurity Benefits Animal Welfare
• Animal Welfare Audits, assessing future directions: in Europe, in North America
• The Welfare Quality Project, science and society improving animal welfare

Euthanasia

• Determining Death in Field Conditions
• Should They Stay or Should They Go? on-farm euthanasia decision making

Laws & Regulations

• Proposed Amendments to Canada's Health of Animals Regulations