HSA Seminar - WATOK One Year on
17 July 2016
The HSA is holding a one-day seminar for the meat and livestock industry entitled “WATOK ONE YEAR ON – Meeting the challenges… Where are we now?”.
News & Events
EU Referendum
24 June 2016
HSA is an international scientific animal welfare organisation but is based within the UK. We do not believe that the UK EU referendum result will have any immediate effects on welfare legislation within the UK. The charity will however be keeping a very close eye on developments. HSA will continue to work to ensure that existing good legislative provisions are maintained and that advances in animal welfare science become incorporated into UK and also international legislation.
HSA funded research leads tio novel humane device for killing chickens
09 June 2016
Dr Jessica Martin, the winner of the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA) Centenary Research Training Scholarship (RTS) in 2011, has graduated from the University of Glasgow with her PhD research which aimed to design a mechanical device to humanely kill chickens on-farm.
HSA offers support to China
09 June 2016
Chinese veterinary staff have started drafting the country’s first welfare standard for the farming and slaughter of livestock and poultry and the HSA has offered to help.
New online guide available
25 May 2016
The HSA has produced an online guide to electrical waterbath stunning of poultry which is aimed at those who perform various hands-on tasks with live birds as part of the poultry slaughter process and are therefore having a direct impact on the animals’ welfare at that time.
RTS Scholar Update
20 May 2016
2015 Research Training Scholarship winner Awal Fuseini is working on developing a humane, safe and Halal-compliant method of pre-cut stunning for cattle and has recently had a paper on his project published in Meat Science.