SLU calculates and reports emissions and uptake from Sweden's Land use, Land Use Change and Forestry sector (LULUCF).
The Centre of Excellence in Animal Welfare Science is a Swedish network for researchers in natural and social sciences aiming to improve animal welfare. Once a Formas strong research environment project between SLU and Linköping University, the centre today continues to establish scientific excellence in this multidisciplinary research area. The network is coordinated by SLU.
In the project Stunning of warm-water fish at killing and slaughtering, SLU researcher Albin Gräns will work on facilitating the farming of 'warm-water' fish species (e.g. Nile tilapia and African sharptooth catfish) in Swedish Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) by evaluating and optimizing commercial stunning techniques to ensure humane slaughter.
On 25th May Professor Linda Keeling, seen here with Professor Jordi Altimiras, Head of the Biology Division, was awarded an honorary doctorate in the Technical Faculty at Linköping University.
The 4th Annual Animal Welfare Symposium was held in Uppsala on May 16-17. The venue attracted almost 60 participants with different associations to the science of Animal Welfare. The aim of the symposium is to engage researchers in animal and veterinary sciences, human-animal interactions, ethics, policy and law, economics and marketing in sharing and discussing their results and ideas in a broad context of animal welfare, by providing a friendly scientific forum.
This course gives an overview of differences between ethics and legislation, elements in ethical argumentation, relation between animal science and animal ethics, description of normative ethical theories used in animal ethics, and an introduction to relevant issues e.g. historical and societal overview of human-animal interaction, reasons for human use of animals, ethical aspects of this use in terms of un/necessary suffering, integrity, responsibilities, limits, interests, behaviour and needs (for both humans and animals).
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