Talk keys on animal welfare, groceries and restaurants

How supermarkets and chain restaurants propose to deal with issues of animal welfare will be the subject of a Feb. 11 public lecture on the UW–Madison campus.

Joe M. Regenstein, a Cornell University professor of food science and currently a visiting professor of food science at UW–Madison, is an internationally recognized authority on flesh foods, particularly fish and poultry, with an emphasis on meat protein functionality, shelf-life extension and underutilized fish.

Regenstein also serves on the Food Marketing Institute and National Council of Chain Restaurants’ animal welfare committee, and is a member of the Humane Farm Animal Care Scientific Committee. In his talk, Regenstein will address issues of animal welfare in the context of products marketed to the public.

The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held at 4:35 p.m. in Room 212 of the UW–Madison Animal Science Building, 1675 Observatory Drive.