About the Principals
Stanley E. Curtis, Ph. D.
is an animal scientist who in the 1970s organized the study of environmental adaptation by farm animals in the USA. He grew up on a farm in northern Indiana and earned three degrees in animal science at Purdue University as well as completing further study at three other institutions. Well-attuned to emerging trends, his first monograph on farm-animal welfare was published in 1981 by the National Pork Producers Council as Animal Welfare Concerns in Modern Pork Production: An Animal Scientist’s Analysis. His research at the University of Illinois was some of the earliest and continues to be some of the most useful regarding livestock and poultry ecology and welfare. It has focused especially on the physiologic and behavioral adaptability of several livestock and poultry species to challenging thermal, air, and equipment-design environments. His group was the first to quantify combined effects of multiple concurrent stressors on animal function and performance. His legacy is internationally renowned in terms of hundreds of research reports, scores of well-mentored students, and dozens of contributions to text and reference books as well as articles in the trade press. He has spoken before over 800 audiences all over the world; headed several national scientific and husbandry-accrediting organizations; and served as charter editor of the guide for farm-animal care, charter executive-committee member of the Farm Animal Welfare Coalition (now Animal Agriculture Alliance), and organizing chair of the USDA Animal Welfare Information Center. His many accomplishments and service in research, teaching, and industry outreach have been recognized numerous times by national scientific, accrediting, and commodity groups. He recently authored the performance axiom, which holds that the best single set of measurable (hence manageable) indicators of an animal’s welfare comprises its rates of productive and reproductive performance relative to its genetic potential.
John J. McGlone, Ph. D.
is an authority on the science of animal production with special expertise in behavior, physiology, and environmental management. His research interests at Texas Tech University include endocrinology, immunology, social behavior and stress. He grew up in the east, and holds degrees in animal science from Washington State University and the University of Illinois. He played key roles in developing and revising national guidelines for keeping and handling animals on farms and using animals in research. He has served on the Accreditation Council and the Executive Committee of the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International. He served as editor of the Journal of Animal Science Environment and Behavior Section. Much of his research effort focuses on gaining better understanding of animals’ needs and welfare in sustainable production systems. He is senior author of the up-to-date textbook Pig Production. He and his associates have published widely the results of original research as well as reviews of the scientific literature. He has produced several educational videos on animal handling and other topics germane to his expertise. He is a popular speaker before producer and scientist audiences alike, and has been invited to speak many times in North America, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He received the Animal Management Award from the American Society of Animal Science. He consults with several integrated animal-production firms on animal behavior, environment, and welfare.
M. Todd See, Ph. D.
is professor of animal science specializing in swine genetics and husbandry at North Carolina State University. He grew up on a farm in lower Michigan and holds degrees in animal science from Michigan State University and the University of Georgia. He works closely with pork producers as he transfers technology and troubleshoots production issues. He has developed internationally recognized educational programs—conventional as well as Internet-based—in his areas of expertise. His research focuses on development and application of methodology for enhancing across-herd genetic evaluation, application of genetics systems to pork production, and evaluation of genetics with respect to nutrition and management in a systems context aimed at enhancing product quality and production throughput. He has made scores of presentations on topics of livestock genetics and husbandry. He has authored several hundred research and extension articles and papers, and has been invited to speak to producer and scientist audiences on many occasions. He served several years on the Pork Industry Handbook Advisory Committee, and currently serves on the National Pork Board’s Animal Science Committee. The National Swine Improvement Federation, of which he is past-president, presented him its Distinguished Service Award. On three occasions, the American Society of Animal Science presented him its Swine Industry Award for Innovation. The Society also recognized him as an Outstanding Young Animal Scientist
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