Seminar: Animal welfare at the time of slaughter

Program

13.00 Welcome -Anna Wallenbeck, SLU

13.15 Pre-slaughter stress and stunning techniques -Claudia Terlouw, INRAE, France

13.45 Non-stunned slaughter of poultry -Troy Gibson, Royal Veterinary Collage, UK

14.15 Coffee 

14.30 Behaviour of sows in lairage -Mette Herskin, Aarhus University, Denmark

15.00 Research on animal production and production economics -Henk Hogeveen, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

15.30 What is the National contact point for animal welfare at slaughter? -Lotta Berg, SLU, SCAW

15.45 General discussion - Anna Wallenbeck, SLU

Welcome!

The day after the seminar - December 12 at 9.15, Adhumbla, VHC, Ultuna,  Josefine Jerlström will defend her PhD thesis “Killing them softly - pig and cattle welfare at slaughter and its economic relevance”. The PhD defence will be broadcasted, read more about the defence.