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farming has eliminated chickens’ ability to
express any of these traits. She also discussed
how HSI has worked with corporations to try to
work towards only allowing humanely farmed
animals into their supply chains. Vietnam’s
National University of Agriculture’s Dr. Ton
gave us an in-depth look at the issues facing
farm animals in Vietnam, allowing us to make
a good comparison between the international
situation and the problems in Vietnam with
production animals.
Throughout the conference was the common
theme of understanding the Five Freedoms of
Animal Welfare and how we, as organizations
and individuals, can help to protect them for
companion animals, farm animals, and wildlife.
During the short time that we had for the
conference to cover such a wide range of topics,
we were still able to enlighten the audience on

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some of the basic tenets of animal rights which
I believe many of the smaller organizations
had not had much exposure to prior to the
meeting. As I have mentioned in previous
articles, raising the level of education for animal
welfare organizations in the founding principles
of the animal welfare and existing legislation
will help make significant improvements in the
level of the professionalism and in the way that
organizations operate. However, the conference
only was able to hit the tip of the iceberg due to
time constraints with such a packed schedule.
This made it difficult to expand on ideas that
were new for many attendees who might have
had questions for the speakers.
On Saturday night, our gracious and hardworking hosts, Yeu Dong Vat, invited conference
goers to their monthly GoVeg campaign movie
night that is open to the public in District 14.

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