The public attention that hidden camera livestock investigations have generated has prompted The Center for Food Integrity to create an Animal Care Review panel. CFI’s Terry Fleck tells Brownfield it’s an independent panel of animal well-being experts, including veterinarians, animal scientists as well as ethicists.
“These are specialists that donate their time to provide credible feedback in an effort to promote continuous improvement in farm animal care,” said Fleck. “It’s designed to really bring more information, more balance to the public discussion about undercover videos.”
Fleck adds that the goal is to have a review of the undercover video completed within 48 hours of CFI receiving the video.
Established initially for the pork industry, the Center for Food Integrity believes other sectors of animal agriculture will be interested in the review process as well and if executed properly, Fleck says the Review Panel will be a strong mechanism for food animal agriculture to look objectively at an evaluation of the content of the videos.
Audio: Terry Fleck, Center for Food Integrity (6:00 MP3)
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