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University of Oxford
Occupation: Professor of Animal Behaviour
Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Oxford and has been involved in research on farm animal welfare, particularly that of poultry, for many years. She is the author of Animal Suffering: the Science of Animal Welfare (1980), Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness (1993) and Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare and Human Well-Being (2012). She has also co- authored (with Aubrey Manning) An Introduction to Animal Behaviour (2012). She works extensively with commercial poultry producers in the UK, Europe and the US.
Location: Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Article published the September 4, 2014
Introduction
A concern over how to feed the rising human population while at the same time minimizing the effect on the environment has led to calls for agriculture to become more ‘sustainably intensive’ and more efficient. (Royal Society, 2009; Steinfeld et al., 2006; Garnett et al., 2013; Gerber et al., 2013). The human population is projected to be at least 9 billion by 2050 (FAOSt ...
This member gave a presentation on June 25, 2014
At the following event:
European Poultry Conference 2014
Article published the May 29, 2014
J R Soc Interface. Dec 7, 2012; 9(77): 3436–3443. PMCID: PMC3481599Published online Sep 5, 2012. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0594This journal is © 2012 The Royal SocietyAbstractCurrently, assessment of broiler (meat) chicken welfare relies largely on labour-intensive or post-mortem measures of welfare. We here describe a method for continuously and robustly monitoring the welfare of living b ...
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March 28, 2014