Chronicle on fish happiness linked to under NGO Aftenposten chronicle

On October 28th Siri Martinsen, head of the Norwegian NGO "NOAH - for animal rights" had a chronicle published in Aftenposten entitled "Ingen dyr skal måtte leve i bur" [No animal should have to live in cages]. One of the three links provided after the chronicle text online (under Les også, Read also) is to a chronicle written by Tore Kristiansen and me, "Fiskelykke?" [Luck in fishing/fish happiness?], here presented as "Levende fisk fårstrupe og mage skåret opp uten at de er bedøvet" ["Live fish gets throat and stomach cut open without being sedated".

Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference featured on national radio

On August 20th The Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference (Dyreetikkonferansen) 2014, which is co-organised by Minding Animals Norway, was featured on national broadcaster NRK P1's afternoon program "Her og nå", with interviews with Tore Kristiansen and Gudbrand Bakken. Podcasts for the program are available here.

To chair panel discussion at Norwegian animal ethics conference

About a week ago it was decided that I would chair the roundtable discussion at Dyreetikkonferansen 2014 [The Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2014] (Trondheim, August 20th), which has the theme "Fiskelykke" [Fish happiness/welfare].

Ad for Norwegian animal ethics conference in fishing newspaper

The advertisement below for the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference 2014 was published in a thematic supplement at the occasion of Nor-Fishing 2014 in today's edition of the Norwegian daily Fiskaren [The fisher].

Jonathan Balcombe to appear in video greeting to animal ethics conference

The video greeting at the opening of this year's Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference, which has the theme "Fiskelykke" [Fish happiness/welfare] (Trondheim, August 20th), will be given by Jonathan Balcombe - see news story (in Norwegian), program and info on contributors at the conference website.

Fish happiness conference listed in MAI bulletin #23

The upcoming fish happiness/welfare conference in Trondheim (August 20th), the 3rd Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference, is listed in bulletin no. 23 of Minding Animals International, which is distributed these days (p. 6).

Minding Animals homepage updated with banner linking to fish happiness conference

I've updated the top banner on the homepage of Minding Animals Norway so that it now links to this year's Norwegian Animals Ethics Conference (Trondheim August 20th).