Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Efficient production and security are important elements for the future of food, but will the push for agricultural efficiency lead to lower standards of animal welfare?
In a free public lecture at The University of Western Australia on Wednesday night, renowned ethicist Marian Stamp Dawkins will discuss the implications of future food production for animal welfare.
She will argue that good animal welfare can provide the basis of healthy safe food for humans, benefits for the environment and productive commercial farming.
Marian Stamp Dawkins 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 works extensively with commercial poultry producers in the UK and was behind the setting up of FAI (Food Animal Initiative) at Wytham, Oxford.
Her lecture is part of 2050 Food , a series of three lectures targeting key issues that will likely shape the nature of human food.
This lecture series is co-sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies, the Institute of Agriculture and the UWA Future Farm project.
WHAT: Public Lecture: Is ‘more efficient' food production in conflict with animal welfare?
SPEAKER: Marian Stamp Dawkins, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Oxford
When: 6-7pm
Where University Club Theatre Auditorium
Cost Free
Register register online
Media references
Audrey Barton (UWA Institute of Advanced Studies) (+61 8) 6488 4797
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