Report: CAW Activity Report 2020

Report: CAW Activity Report 2020

I’ve created and published our 2020 University of Winchester Centre for Animal Welfare Activity Report.     Covid-19 obviously had a major impact on all of us in 2020. Nevertheless, our students and faculty still managed to produce some excellent work, and...
Article: educational animal use – Animals

Article: educational animal use – Animals

With Dr Miriam Zemanova, I’ve just published a systematic review of 50 studies comparing student learning outcomes, when animals are harmed or humane alternatives are used, in life and health sciences education. The results clearly show that students do as well (60%)...
Historic wins for New Zealand animals

Historic wins for New Zealand animals

A New Zealand High Court judge has just ruled that the government’s legalisation of extremely restrictive cages (‘farrowing crates’) for pregnant sows – the main confinement system used for more than 14,000 pregnant New Zealand pigs annually, for decades – is illegal,...
Report: supermarket chicken and pandemics

Report: supermarket chicken and pandemics

With Open Cages and Prof. Emeritus David Wiebers, I’ve just published a detailed report examining welfare problems and disease risks created by intensive meat chicken farming, including the risks of future global pandemics. It also highlights action supermarkets can...