What does AWC stand for?

Animal Welfare Council (Eastwood, KY, USA)

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She has also served on committees including the Farm Animal Welfare Council, the EU Scientific Veterinary Committee and the European Food Safety Authority.

North academic gets top pig industry award

The UK Government s Farm Animal Welfare Council makes the call for urgent action in an opinion just published that is critical of the lack of movement on many issues since it last reviewed the dairy sector in 1997.

United Kingdom : Dairy farmers urged to invest

Research by the TaxPayers' Alliance, to be published within weeks, will show the cost of the 994 quangos including the British Potato Council, Welsh Language Board and Farm Animal Welfare Council is on course to exceed [pounds sterling]170billion.

[pounds sterling]170bn: The cost of quango Britain; Bill has risen ...

Earlier this year the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC), which advises the Government on how to avoid cruelty to livestock, controversially called for an end to the way Halal meat is produced, stating it causes severe suffering to animals.

Killed according to Islamic laws

In June the Food Animal Welfare Council produced a report which claimed that halal and kosher methods of slaughtering animals were inhumane, and should be outlawed immediately.

The slaughterhouse rules

The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) recommends that all animals are pre-stunned before slaughter.

READER LETTERS; Dodging the truth about a dodgy episode

The move follows a report from the Farm Animal Welfare Council, which suggested that the Muslim and Jewish methods of slaughter - which involve cutting animals' throats and letting them bleed to death - was intrinsically cruel and caused severe suffering for sheep, goats and cattle.

Jews and Muslims unite against ban on slaughter rites

The government's advisory board, the Animal Welfare Council, is also probing the welfare of 'red meat animals' during religious slaughter.

RELIGION ROW OVER KOSHER KILLINGS BAN