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Media releases
30 April 2013 On-line guide to stunning now available
New on-line guides to ‘Electrical stunning of red meat animals’ and ‘Captive-bolt stunning of livestock’ have been produced by the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) and are now available for viewing and free download on the Association’s website www.hsa.org.uk. (Click here for more).
11 March 2013 HSA Director awarded Associate Fellowship of Royal Agricultural Societies
Charles Mason, Technical Director of the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA), has been awarded an Associate Fellowship of the Royal Agricultural Societies for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, in recognition of his ‘distinguished achievement in agriculture and land based industries’. (Click here for more).
28 January 2013 New on-line guide to the slaughter of poultry
An on-line guide to the humane slaughter of poultry has been produced by the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) and is now available for viewing and free download on the Association’s website (www.hsa.org.uk). (Click here for more).
24 January 2013 New legislation: the implications for slaughterhouses
New legislation intended to protect the welfare of animals at slaughter came into effect on 1 January 2013. The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) has made freely downloadable information available on its website which describes the key points of the
new legislation and the implications for slaughterhouses and knackers’ yards. (Click here for more).
5 November 2012 New legislation: the implications for poultry producers
New legislation intended to protect the welfare of animals at the time of their killing comes into effect on 1 January 2013. The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) has produced an information leaflet which summarises the key principles of the new legislation and the implications for producers killing poultry on-farm for commercial purposes (to supply meat either to the final consumer directly or to retailers). (Click here for more).
18 October 2012 HSA invites applications for the 2013 Dorothy Sidley Memorial Awards
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) is now inviting applications for its 2013 Dorothy Sidley Memorial Scholarships.
The Scholarships were established in 1986 as a memorial to the late Dorothy Sidley MBE, who was General Secretary of the HSA for 48 years. They support students and industry trainees undertaking research projects that are aimed at improving the welfare of food animals during transport, in markets or at slaughter.
(Click here for more).
2 October 2012 Applications invited for the 2013 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 2013 Humane Slaughter Award for significant advances in the humane slaughter of farmed livestock. (Click here for more).
19 July 2012 HSA announces award for significant advances in humane slaughter
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) has announced the winner of its 2012 award for significant advances in humane slaughter. (Click here for more).
4 October 2011 HSA invites applications for the 2012 Dorothy Sidley Memorial Scholarships
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) is now inviting applications for its 2012 Dorothy Sidley Memorial Scholarships. (Click here for more).
26 September 2011 Applications invited for the HSA 2012 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 2012 Humane Slaughter Award for significant advances in the humane slaughter of farmed livestock. (Click here for more).
2 September 2011 Poultry stunning training - places available
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) is teaching a poultry stunning course ‘On-farm slaughter of poultry’ on 18th October 2011 at West Somerset Community College, Minehead.
The course includes a theory element and a practical session which covers restraint, stunning and slaughter of poultry. Participants are assessed and those who are successful will receive a certificate of competence to slaughter poultry using a variety of stunning methods, which may be required for the sale of poultry meat. (Click here for more)
12 July 2011 Humane Slaughter Association announces two awards at International Symposium
The two winners of the 2011 Humane Slaughter Award presented by the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) were announced at the Association’s recent Centenary International Symposium held in Portsmouth. (Click here for more)
27 May 2011 HSA awards Centenary Scholarship to develop humane mechanical methods for killing chickens
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) has awarded its first Research Training Scholarship, commemorating the HSA’s Centenary this year, to Jessica Hopkins of the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC). Jessica will undertake a three-year research programme at doctoral level to address the major welfare problem of the need for a humane method for killing chickens. (Click here for more).
25 February 2011 International Symposium to Focus on Advances in the Welfare of Livestock at Slaughter
Plans for the international symposium marking the Centenary of the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) are well advanced with the meeting set to bring together internationally recognised speakers for the two-day event at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyards, UK on the 30th June and 1st July 2011.
(Click here for more).
14 January 2011 HSA student scholar battles through snow to present research
Despite hostile weather conditions the annual UFAW/HSA Animal Welfare Student Scholarship meeting, where UFAW Animal Welfare Student Scholars and HSA Dorothy Sidley Memorial Scholars present their work, took place at the University of Glasgow on the 8th December 2010, albeit in truncated form. (Click here for more).
7 October 2010 HSA invites applications for the HSA Centenary 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 2011 Centenary Humane Slaughter Award. (Click here for more).
4 October 2010 HSA invites applications for the 2011 Dorothy Sidley Memorial Scholarships
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) is now inviting applications for its 2011 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 during transport, in markets or at slaughter. (Click here for more).
20 September 2010 HSA Introduces New PhD Studentship for Food Animal Welfare
As part of its activities to mark its Centenary in 2011, the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) is launching an Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarship and is now inviting applications for this award.
The Scholarship will enable a promising veterinary or science graduate to undertake a three-year programme of research leading to a degree at the doctorate level. The research project must have a clear relevance to improving the well-being of farmed food animals in livestock markets, during transport or at the time of slaughter or killing. (Click here for more).
16 August 2010 HSA Centenary International Symposium Recent advances in the welfare of livestock at slaughter
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) has announced an International Symposium on ‘Recent advances in the welfare of livestock at slaughter’ to be held on 30th June and 1st July 2011 at the Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth, UK, and is now seeking contributions and expressions of interest in attending. (Click here for more).
3 August 2010 HSA team up with MVP Training on duck welfare
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) teamed up with MVP Training recently to provide a welfare training course to Cherry Valley Farms Limited, one of the UK’s leading growers and processors of ducks. (Click here for more).
27 July 2010 HSA gives advance notice of a research scholarship leading to a degree at the doctorate level
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) has given advance notice that it intends to offer a Research Training Scholarship later this year. Potential applicants will have time to consider ideas for possible projects over the summer before the award is open for application in autumn 2010. (Click here for more).
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)
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