Michael Calvert Appleby

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

is a British ethologist and

animal welfare Animal welfare is the quality of life and overall well-being of animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare groups, legislators, and academics. Animal welfare science uses measures ...

scientist, especially for farm animals. He obtained a BSc in

Zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

at the

University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a public university, public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Br ...

and a PhD in

Animal Behaviour Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behavior, behaviour of non-human animals. It has its scientific roots in the work of Charles Darwin and of American and German ornithology, ornithologists of the late 19th and early 20th cen ...

King's College, Cambridge King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces ...

. He then spent 20 years at the Poultry Research Centre in

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and the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

researching behaviour,

husbandry Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock. ...

, and welfare of farm animals. He worked for

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(previously WSPA) from 2005 to 2016, and is now retired. His early work on stocking densities in poultry and the tethering of pregnant sows contributed to the body of evidence that led, eventually, to major changes in animal welfare and the way these animals are kept. Appleby helped design the Edinburgh Modified Cage, which is a furnished cage for hens, replacing

battery cage Battery cages are a housing system used by factory farms for various animal production methods, but primarily for egg-laying hens. The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected, in a unit, as in an artill ...

s to improve animal welfare. He was appointed

Officer of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(OBE) in the

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for services to animal welfare.

Career

Previous positions: * Senior Lecturer in Applied Animal Behavior,

* Vice President, head of Farm Animals and

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Humane Society of the United States Humane World for Animals, formerly the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Humane Society International (HSI), is a global nonprofit organization that focuses on animal welfare and opposes animal-related cruelties of national scop ...

(2001–2005) * Chief Scientific Advisor and Welfare Policy Adviser for

Current positions: * Visiting professor in Animal Welfare,

Scottish Agricultural College Scotland's Rural College (SRUC; ) is a public land based research institution focused on agriculture and life sciences. Its history stretches back to 1899 with the establishment of the West of Scotland Agricultural College and its current orga ...

* Member of the

Farm Animal Welfare Council The Animal Welfare Committee (AWC) is an independent advisory body established by the Government of the United Kingdom as the Farm Animal Welfare Committee in 2011, it's name was changed to Animal Welfare Committee in 2019. It replaced the Farm A ...

* Member of the Scientific Committee of

Humane Farm Animal Care Humane Farm Animal Care is a nonprofit organization established to promote and administer its certification and labeling program, ''Certified Humane Raised & Handled'', for meat, dairy, eggs and poultry raised under its animal care standards in t ...

* Member of the Animal Compassionate Committee of

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in the US * Procedural Officer of the International Society for Applied Ethology

Publications

* Appleby, Michael C. (1991
Applied animal behaviour: past, present, and future
Universities Federation for Animal Welfare. . Retrieved 12 February 2011 * Appleby, Michael C., Barry O. Hughes, H. Arnold Elson (1992
Poultry Production Systems: Behaviour, Management and Welfare
CAB International. . Retrieved 3 May 2009 * Appleby, Michael C. (1992)
What Should We Do about Animal Welfare?
Blackwell Science. . Retrieved 3 May 2009 ** Michael Appleby was awarded the Universities Federation of Animal Welfare (UFAW) Hulme Fellowship to write this book * Appleby, Michael, Alistair B. Lawrence, Barry O. Hughes (1996
Behaviour and Welfare of Extensively Farmed Animals
Elsevier Science. Retrieved 3 May 2009 * Appleby, Michael C., Barry O. Hughes (1997)
Animal Welfare
CAB International. . Retrieved 3 May 2009 * Appleby, Michael C., Joy A. Mench, Barry O. Hughes (2004)
Poultry Behaviour and Welfare
CAB International. . Retrieved 3 May 2009 * Appleby, Michael C., V. Cussen, L. Lambert, J. Turner (2008
Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals
CAB International. . Retrieved 3 May 2009 * Appleby, Michael C. (2008)
Eating Our Future: The environmental impact of industrial animal agriculture
WSPA. Retrieved 20 December 2012

References

External links

World Animal Protection

Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

Scotland's Rural College
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