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Dr Mara Miele
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House of Beasts Symposium: Enquiries into the Human and the Animal
Shrewsbury, 18th February 2012
Organised by Meadow Arts and hosted by Shropshire Wildlife Trust
The video of Mara's presentation, 'A journey to a slaughterhouse: Geographies of killing, technologies of care', is now available to view.
EU Animal Welfare Strategy 2012-2015 Conference - "Empowering consumers and creating market opportunities for animal welfare"
Brussels, 29th February - 1st March 2012
- Further information is available on the European Commission Conferences webpage.
- Mara's presentation, 'How to influence consumers', is available to view as a pdf file.
- NEW - Photographs from the conference.
Welfare Quality Report Series Complete
The series of Welfare Quality Reports (19 vols) has now been completed. Individual reports are available for download.
New Report on Consumers' Attitude to Animal Welfare
Miele, M. (2010) 'Report concerning consumer perceptions and attitudes towards farm animal welfare' Official Experts Report EAWP (task 1.3), Uppsala: Uppsala University.
This report is an official deliverable of the EU VII Framework project European Animal Welfare Platform.
Food Programme on BBC Radio 4
Mara participated in the Food Programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast on Sunday 21st February, which looked at the growing demand for halal meat in Britain. The programme can be heard again on BBC iPlayer Console - Food Programme: Halal.
Press Release from Dialrel on Recommendations for Good Practice
The Dialrel project has now ended and the final document, Improving Animal Welfare during Religious Slaughter, Recommendations for Good Practice, is now available.
Letter to NewScientist about Religious Slaughter in Europe and the EU project Dialrel
A letter sent to NewScientist has been published in the Opinion session of the issue 2377 on November 4th, 2009 with the title 'Meat for a ritual'.