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Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare project (CEFAW) now fully immersed in CEFAW Education
The Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare project (CEFAW) is now fully immersed in CEFAW Education, the AHRC-funded, one-year, follow-on project to the initial three-years of CEFAW. Teachers, schools, and academic staff at Theological Education Institutions (TEIs) are enthusiastically working with the CEFAW Education Research Team to develop educational resources...
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CEFAW Education: now recruiting teachers, schools and TEI staff
The Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare project (CEFAW) has received funding from the AHRC for a new one-year project to work with teachers, schools, and academic staff at Theological Education Institutions (TEIs) to develop educational resources based on the project’s cutting-edge academic research. The CEFAW Education project will run for...
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'A Christian Case for Farmed Animal Welfare' now available
Members of the CEFAW Team (Margaret B. Adam, David L. Clough and David Grumett) are please to share an academic journal article from Animals, 'A Christian Case for Farmed Animal Welfare' which is available to read and download for free. It offers an excellent way into some of the discussions about Christian ethics...
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In Conversation with Catholic Concern for Animals
Prof David Clough was recently invited to take part in a conversation with Cathiolic Concern for Animals' (CCA) Chris Fegan and Dr Gerald Taylor. CCA is one of the partners on the CEFAW project, and bring some great expertise and insight to the team. In this first of a series of CCA vlogs,...
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CEFAW Webinars 2021
CEFAW Webinars - 2021 To support how people can engage with its Policy Framework, CEFAW is hosting a series of free Webinars from January - April 2021. These will be led by members of the project team and are designed to support individuals and organisations to help enable creaturely flourishing. The Framework document – the first to bring together Christian ethics and farmed animal welfare in this...
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CEFAW submits evidence to parliamentary consultation on food procurement
CEFAW has made a submission to a consultation by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on the Public Sector Procurement of Food. Here's what we said: The CEFAW report, The Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare: A Policy Framework for Churches and Christian Organizations, to be published on 18th November, 2020, argues that...
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Policy Framework final draft
We're delighted to have completed a final draft of the CEFAW Policy Framework, due out in November, setting out how churches and other Christian organizations can engage with farmed animal welfare. Watch this space or contact us for details of an online seminar launching the framework.
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CEFAW releases briefing on farmed animal welfare issues in the Agriculture Bill
CEFAW has produced this summary briefing on the 2019–21 Agriculture Bill for parliamentarians. A PDF of the full briefing, with supporting resources, is available here. A Christian Case for Farmed Animal Welfare CEFAW Briefing on the Agriculture Bill About this briefing Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare (CEFAW) is a three-year research project funded by the...
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CEFAW Policy Framework consultation underway
CEFAW has now completed a draft of our key publication: 'The Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare: A Policy Framework for Churches and Christian Organizations'. The framework sets out: why farmed animal welfare should be a concern for Christians; a Christian approach to farmed animal welfare based on the flourishing of humans and...
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Don't tackle climate change by worsening farmed animal welfare
The BBC is reporting comments by Professor Ian Boyd, the government's outgoing Chief Environment Scientist, that the UK should address climate change by reducing livestock numbers and intensifying animal agriculture. He suggests we should increase growth rates of farmed animals and shorten their lives in order to reduce methane emissions from...