Center for Food Animal Wellbeing

The Center for Food Animal Wellbeing is on a mission to innovate and promote best practices for animal wellbeing. The center is committed to advancing new tools and technologies that improve animal husbandry practices and optimize animal welfare. Maximizing animal wellbeing leads to better animal health and more ethical and sustainable food systems.

Meet the Director

Shawna Weimer, associate professor and director of the Center for Food Animal Wellbeing, is driven by her compassion for animals. As an applied ethologist, Weimer looks at animal behavior and how they respond to humans and their environment. Through her research, she is looking for ways to improve how people interact with animals and enhance animal environments in agriculture.