Source: Lisa M. Keefe, MEATINGPLACE, 8/22/11

The AMI Foundation has scheduled its Animal Care and Handling Conference for the Food Industry for October in Kansas City, Mo.
In a news release, the Foundation noted that nearly a dozen associations and organizations have collaborated this year to create the program, which has  three focused tracks: Management and Policy, Applied Pig Handling and Applied Cattle Handling, with a number of new sessions.

Speakers include Temple Grandin; Mike Siemens, director of animal welfare and husbandry for Cargill; Leonard Huskey; director of animal welfare for JBS USA; Kellye Pfalzgraf, director of animal well being for Tyson Foods; Chris Raines, assistant professor of meat science and technology at Pennsylvania State University; Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein, scientist with Agriculture & Agri-foods Canada; and Glynn Tonsor, assistant professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University.

For a complete agenda and to register, click here. 

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