A SURVEY to seek community and stakeholder views on the industry’s animal welfare performance, has been announced by CEO of the Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council, Alison Penfold.
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It is part of a major research and development project funded by the MLA/LiveCorp Live Export Program and matched Australian Government funding to develop key animal welfare indicators along the live export supply chain, the live export industry and conducted through Murdoch University.
“There are currently too few objective and transparent measures of the live export industry’s animal welfare performance”, Ms Penfold said.
“The two that are regularly called on – onboard shipping mortality rates and ESCAS compliance - do not provide a complete picture of the scale of industry effort and commitment to animal welfare along the supply chain.
“With the information collected from the survey, we expect to have a set of indicators developed by the end of 2015 with the intention to commence implementation as soon as practical thereafter.”
The survey is at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1872406/Welfare-Indicators and is open till May 10.
