Animal welfare, pain measured to improve quality of life

CM
September 12 2021 - 11:10am
SHARP RELIEF: Centre for the Nanoscale BioPhotonics director Mark Hutchinson is testing whether it is possible to use pain biomarkers developed for human medicine to get a measure of pain in sheep.
SHARP RELIEF: Centre for the Nanoscale BioPhotonics director Mark Hutchinson is testing whether it is possible to use pain biomarkers developed for human medicine to get a measure of pain in sheep.

CONSUMERS increasingly want to know the lamb chops or the Sunday roast they are buying have come from animals that were raised with the highest animal welfare standards.

CM

Catherine is Stock Journal's long time livestock editor and South East journalist.

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