Cargill's Prexy to Keynote AMI Animal Care/Handling Conf.

WITCHITA, Kan. -- Tom Hayes, president of Cargill Meat Solutions here, will offer his perspective on translating corporate value into sustained action in his keynote address at the American Meat Institute Foundation's Animal Care and Handling Conference, coming in late March.

Hayes and his company have been leaders in animal welfare within the meat industry. Hayes currently serves at a commissioner of the National Commission on Industry Farm Animal Production.

The popular conference, to be held March 29-30, 2007 at the Sheraton Overland Park in Overland Park, Kan, will again feature three distinct tracks - pork, beef, and management and policy.

Dr. Temple Grandin, associate professor at of Colorado State University, will again be a featured speaker in both the beef and pork tracks, along with Collette Schultz-Kaster, Premium Standard Farms; Jeff Hill, Premium Standard Farms; Brad Morgan, Oklahoma State University; Richard Hall, Bob Evans Farms; Matthew Ritter, Elanco Animal Health; Erik Risa, National Pork Board; Jodi Steiner, XL Foods, Ltd., Canada; and, Dan Klaus, American Foods Group/Green Bay.

Sponsored by the American Meat Institute, the Animal Care and Handling Conference for the Food Industry is the leading animal welfare educational opportunity for meat and poultry companies, their customers and those involved in the production and management of livestock and meat products.

The conference is co-sponsored by the American Association of Bovine Practitioners, American Association of Swine Veterinarians, Animal Agriculture Alliance, Canadian Meat Council, Food Marketing Institute, National Cattleman's Beef Association, National Grocers Association, National Milk Producers Federation, National Pork Board, National Pork Producers Council, National Council of Chain Restaurants, and National Restaurant Association.
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