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Media releases
17 December 2009 Applications invited for the HSA 2010 Humane Slaughter Award
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) – an independent charity that works through education, training, research and technical developments towards achieving high standards of welfare for food animals at markets, during transport and at slaughter – is now inviting applications for its 2010 Humane Slaughter Award. (Click here for more).
2 November 2009 HSA invites applications for the 2010 Dorothy Sidley Memorial Scholarships
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) is now inviting applications for its 2010 Dorothy Sidley Memorial Scholarships.
The Scholarships, established in 1986 as a memorial to the late Dorothy Sidley MBE, support student and industry trainee research projects that are aimed at improving the welfare of food animals at slaughter, in markets or during transport. Undergraduate and postgraduate students in agricultural, veterinary or meat sciences, or trainees in the livestock, meat and fish industries in the UK, are eligible, as are students registered at universities outside the UK that have a UFAW/HSA University ‘LINK’ person (see www.ufaw.org.uk/links-news-events.php). Each Scholarship is for up to £2,000. (Click here for more).
12 October 2009 Humane Slaughter Award winner provides evidence for pain in slaughter without stunning
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) has presented its inaugural Humane Slaughter
Award to Dr Craig Johnson and his colleagues at Massey University, New Zealand, for groundbreaking research investigating pain in cattle slaughtered without prior stunning. Click here for more).
24 September 2009 How many animals are slaughtered in the UK?
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) is frequently asked this and many other questions by members of the public, those with a working interest in livestock and, with questions of a more technical nature, by the meat processing and retailing industries. As part of its ongoing educational, scientific and technical work to promote high welfare standards in livestock transport, markets and at slaughter, the HSA – an independent registered charity, has now posted a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section on its website. (Click here for more).
28 April 2009 Essential Information for Horse Owners
A new edition of the publication ‘Farewell – making the right decision’, a guide for horse owners on the humane destruction of aged, sick or injured horses, has been produced by the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) and is available for free download at www.hsa.org.uk/Publications.htm. (Click here for more)
27 January 2009 Education and Training Services from the HSA
The comprehensive range of education and training services provided by the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) are described in a new brochure which is now freely available from the HSA office or by download from www.hsa.org.uk. (Click here for more)
8th December 2008 New Award for Advances in the Humane Slaughter of Livestock launched by the HSA
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) – an independent charity that works through education, training, research and technical developments towards achieving high standards of welfare for food animals at markets, during transport and at slaughter – has launched a new award to recognize and encourage significant advances in the humane slaughter of farmed livestock. Applications are now invited for the inaugural, 2009, award. (Click here for more)
22 October 2008 HSA invites applications for the 2009 Dorothy Sidley Memorial Scholarships
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) is now inviting applications for its 2009 Dorothy Sidley Memorial Scholarships. (Click here for more)
1 September 2008 Humane Handling of Livestock: new publication from the HSA
A new publication in the HSA's Guidance Notes series, `Humane Handling of Livestock' has been produced by the HSA. (Click here for more)
4 March 2008 Humane Harvest of Halibut: new publication from the HSA
A new publication in its Technical Note series, ‘Humane Harvesting of Halibut’ has been produced by the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA).The new Technical Note draws on the results of several scientific experimental projects on the humane harvesting of sea fish and follows the HSA’s participation in the Defra-funded LINK project on the humane harvesting of halibut. The publication discusses the legislative......(Click here for more)
4 March 2008 Slaughter of minority species included in new publications from the HSA
A new Technical Note on the ‘Slaughter and Killing of Minority Farmed Species’ is among several new publications produced recently by the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) which also include ‘Best Practice Guidelines for the Welfare of Ducks and Geese in Processing Plants’, a Technical Note on ‘Humane Harvesting of Halibut’ and new editions of two HSA Fact Sheets for the general reader on transport of animals and on the history of the HSA. Over recent years significant numbers of livestock farmers have diversified.........(Click here for more)
26 February 2008 Study highlights best practice in group stunning
A two-year Defra-funded project to determine optimal design and operational parameters for group stunning systems in abattoirs has now been completed by ADAS UK Ltd in collaboration with the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) and Industrial and Agricultural Engineers Ltd (IAE). Group stunning, in which a group of animals are brought to a stun pen and stunned individually before being bled, is relatively common, particularly in small to medium-sized......(Click here for more)
15 October 2007 Advice on transport of animals
08 October 2007 Caring to the End Booklet for smallholders, hobby farmers and those that keep livestock as pets
With growing numbers of people keeping livestock in small numbers, including as
pets, the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) – a registered charity that works for
the welfare of farm animals during transport, at markets and at slaughter – is
increasingly being asked for advice on what to do or what to expect when the time
comes for animals to be put down because of age, illness or injury, when they
die of natural causes or need to be killed for a specific purpose........(Click here for more)
Media contact:
Brian Pemberton, PR Officer
Telephone 01582 831919
Fax 01582 831414
Email: pemberton@hsa.org.uk |
