I am two weeks away from my six week study tour to New Zealand and Australia, and travelling to what can only be a an excellent introduction to a global perspective on animal welfare. The final stakeholder conference of the EU funded Welfare Quality project (http://www.welfarequality.net/) is being held in Uppsala, Sweden, tomorrow and on Friday and I am writing this as I fly the Amsterdam to Stockholm leg of my journey from West Wales. Seems far removed from checking the 300 lambs that are left to finish back at Llandre early this morning!
The conference is titled: "Delivering Animal Welfare and Quality, Transparency in the Food Production Chain" Speakers have been drawn from all the world including Uruguay, a country which I was fortunate to visit earlier in the year.
Some key questions which I will consider within my Nuffield studies are dealt with at this conference:
How do we design welfare measures?
Creating a welfare scoring system and the assessment and certification of the ‘costs and benefits’
The Welfare Quality Project has involved a significant investment in terms of money, time and expertise and it will be interesting to view the final outcome.
The main concern I have over of the next two days is how I will be able to absorb and interpret the information that will be forthcoming from around 19 guest speakers!
Latest as I upload this post in my hotel room - Human welfare is also important and not helped by being told on landing in Stockholm that my luggage is still in Amsterdam!!
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