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Below is a list of speakers who are available to discuss farm animal welfare-related issues and research at national or provincial gatherings. Click on the speaker's name for contact informaiton and a summary of the topics that they cover.
This list is not a comprehensive list, but it's a good place to get you started on speaker ideas. The Speakers Bureau Program funding is not limited to the speakers on this list, so feel free to apply with your own speaker suggestions. Have you heard a good speaker on farm animal welfare who isn't on the list? Please send their name and contact information to any of the groups listed below.
Contact any of the groups below for more details or additional speaker ideas.
- Leslie Ballentine,
Ballentine Communication Group - public affairs and legislative and regulatory issues related to animal use and care
- Dr. David Biesenthal,
Stonegate Farms - involvement of agriculture in the Walkerton water situation - his farm was implicated in the contamination of the water supply
- Nigel Caulkett,
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary - Control of pain during common husbandry procedures in cattle
- Dr. John S. Church,
Alberta Agriculture and Food - Alternative housing of laying hens
- Susan Church, Alberta Farm Animal Care - animal welfare related topics
- Dr. Chris Clark,
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences,
Western College of Veterinary Medicine - Field diagnosis and treatment in cattle.
- Phil Clemens,
Hatfield Quality Meats - How can the Food Industry Advance Animal Welfare
- Barney Cosner,
Wyoming State Fair and Rodeo - target audience is youth, animal husbandry
- Dr. Anne Marie de Passillé,
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - animal welfare, dairy cattle welfare & behaviour, cow comfort, man-animal interactions
- Gord Doonan,
Canadian Food Inspection Agency - transportation of animals, government role in animal welfare
- Ian J.H. Duncan, PhD,
Department of Animal and Poultry Science,
University of Guelph - animal welfare
- Jeff Goodwin,
Colorado 4-H Youth Development - issues affecting agriculture
- Derek Haley, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta. Applied Animal Behaviour, Animal Welfare
- Penny Lawlis,
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs - Animal welfare assessment, humane handling (swine poultry), chicken catching, transportation, humane slaughter, animal welfare auditing, euthanasia
- Nancy Lidster,
DNL Farms - Pig Handling and Stockmanship
- Crystal Mackay, Ontario Farm Animal Council - animal welfare related topics
- Richard L. McConnell,
Hand ‘n Hand Livestock Solutions - Low Stress Stockmanship Schools
- Ruth Newberry,
Associate Professor,
Center for the Study of Animal Well-being, Washington State University - poultry and pigs welfare
- Bernard E. Rollin, PhD,
Department of Philosophy,
Colorado State University - concern for animal treatment that has emerged as a major social-ethical issue across the Western world
- Jeffrey Rushen,
PARC-Agassiz, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada - research in animal behaviour, farm animal welfare, dairy cattle, lameness, dairy calf housing, management, stress physiology, animal welfare standards
- Al Schaefer,
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
Lacombe Research Centre - Stress Physiology
- Erika L. Voogd,
Voogd Consulting, Inc. - specializing in global assistance to the meat industry
- Bryan Walton,
Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors - general agriculture and food retailing
- Terry Whiting, DVM, MSC,
Manager Animal Health and Welfare,
Manitoba Agriculture and Food, Veterinary Services Branch
- Tina Widowski, PhD,
Associate Professor,
Department of Animal & Poultry Science,
University of Guelph - specializing in applied animal behaviour, management, housing and welfare of farm animals
- Jennifer Woods,
Reflected J Consulting - livestock handling specialist
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