Temple Grandin updates animal care guidelines for Me

Temple Grandin updates animal care guidelines for Meat Institute

26/09/2019

The North American Meat Institute, with which the US Hide, Skin and Leather Association (USHSLA) is affiliated, has released new science-based animal care guidelines and audit for the meat industry. The guidelines and audit were authored by Colorado State University Professor of Animal Behaviour, Temple Grandin. Professor Grandin worked with the Meat Institute’s animal welfare committee.

“The meat and poultry industry is always looking for ways to improve humane animal handling for both the welfare of the animal and the safety of our workforce,” said Meat Institute chief executive, Julie Anna Potts. “The new guidelines are the product of member company participation with the guidance of the Meat Institute’s veterinarian, Dr Tiffany Lee, and the world’s foremost expert on animal welfare and the meat industry, Dr Temple Grandin.”

For her part, Professor Grandin commented: “It is important to update these guidelines in order to facilitate continuous improvement of animal welfare standards in the meat industry.” It was she who developed the Meat Institute’s first audit guidelines in 1997.

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