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New technology to enhance farm animal welfare
Video surveillance and security company HS3
Technologies, Inc., in conjunction with the American Humane Association, is
working to enhance farm animal welfare and prevent incidents such as the one
documented in an undercover video taken at an Iowa pig farm.
In conjunction with the American Humane Certified program, which certifies
participating producers' farm animals are raised humanely, HS3 has completed
installations and begun beta testing surveillance systems in facilities to
further ensure that food production in North America meets American Humane
Certified animal welfare standards.
Transparency"HS3 is an independent video
monitoring and verification company, totally committed to assisting and
demonstrating to consumers that American farmers are genuinely concerned about
the welfare of the animals they produce," says HS3 Technologies CEO Mark Lana.
"The atrocities at the Iowa farm are alarming; we want to help show that the
majority of American farmers are conscientious and offer transparency for the
industry."
Installation has begun in five American Humane Certified
producer's transportation and production facilities for swine, chicken (broiler
and layer farms) and cattle (veal and dairy). The selected producers distribute
nationally and internationally, and represent some of the largest animal protein
producers in the world.
Monitor
treatment
The surveillance systems are specifically
designed to monitor the humane treatment of animals, as well as monitor
conditions and events such as temperature, air flow, feeding schedules,
personnel entrances/exits and animal mobility through systems that: 1) trigger
alarms when abnormalities occur, and 2) can be remotely viewed by the producer
and American Humane Certified (with a password) in real time from any computer
with an internet connection, thus creating a prompt alert and solution to any
negative condition impacting the animals.
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