RSPCA Animal Welfare Seminar

Ensuring a humane death for farm animals

Recent advances in humane killing and slaughter have significant implications for farm animal welfare. The first event of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, this one-day seminar will outline innovations and research in the field. Good farm animal welfare means giving animals a humane death, as well as a life worth living.

Seminar themes will include:

• New methods of stunning for slaughter


• Assessment of insensibility


• Use of technology to audit, monitor, enforce animal welfare at abattoirs


• Innovations in killing unwanted animals


• End-of-life decision making for on-farm euthanasia


• Depopulation and emergency killing

Keynote Speakers:

Dorothy McKeegan

BVA Animal Welfare Foundation Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, UK

Keynote: Welfare assessment of Low Atmospheric Pressure Stunning (LAPS)

Alison Small

Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Agriculture & Food

Keynote: DTS: Diathermic Syncope® - a new technology for pre-slaughter induction of insensibility

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