Professor Dan Weary’s Presentation at the 2020 Dairy Research Foundation’s Online Symposium:
Public and producer attitudes: working together to maintain social licence
Dan Weary is a Professor at The University of British Columbia. In 1997 Dan co-founded UBC’s Animal Welfare Program and co-directs this active research group. Dan’s research focuses on developing behavioral measures for the objective assessment of animal welfare and developing practical methods of improving the welfare of animals. Dan’s work on calves has helped lead to changes in feeding practices (including the adoption of higher milk rations), housing methods (including the adoption of pair and small group rearing for pre-weaned calves), and pain management (for disbudding). Work on cows has focused on improved comfort (especially in stall design and management), and how these changes can benefit cow health (especially lameness).