Leonardo Vega honored for entrepreneurship

Last September, the Director of F&S Consulting, veterinarian Leonardo Thielo de La Vega, was honored in the Entrepreneur category of the year, during the Outstanding Veterinary Medicine and Destaque Zootecnia 2016 Award, held by the Regional Council of Veterinary Medicine of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The awards ceremony took place at the Veterinarian’s House, located in the Assis Brasil Exhibition Park in Esteio, during the 39th Expointer.

The National Agricultural and Livestock Laboratory (Lanagro / MAPA), the Toxicological Information Center (CIT), the Center for Studies on Production of Cutting Cattle and Production Chain (NESPRO / UFRGS), the National Union of the Products Industry (SINDAN), prosecutor Mauro Rockenbach (Public Prosecutor of Rio Grande do Sul), among others.

Dr. Moira talks about career and animal welfare

Currently acting as an animal welfare consultant at F & S Consulting, Moira had an important job at Frangosul – JBS, where she remained for ten years and became the corporate agricultural and livestock coordinator.

The move through the multinational provided Moira with the certainty of the real needs of a company to have a professional qualified to work with animal welfare.

“As an industry quality tool, this is critical. However, companies often end up not evaluating this need “, he emphasizes. She further emphasizes that not investing in animal welfare brings losses. “The chain has to be interconnected,” he adds.

For the consultant, in a short time it will be essential that the companies have highly qualified professionals to promote the improvement in the quality of production.

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Animal welfare: the lack of industry and consumer warranty

He founded a company focused on the scientific gaps in the production processes of the animal food industries. The work consists in validating the desensitization systems in refrigerators, mainly in Europe.

Formed by the Lutheran University of Brazil (Ulbra), in Rio Grande do Sul, the veterinarian Leonardo de La Vega, who has been studying the welfare of production animals for more than 10 years, is at the forefront of an important advance in medicine Veterinary. Together with researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), he developed an equipment capable of capturing the electric brain signal of animals at the time of slaughter. With this, it is possible to monitor if the animal has felt pain and, thus, to guarantee the humanitarian slaughter in the industry.

Living in Dublin, Ireland, Vega, who is also a member of the Animal Welfare Commission of the Brazilian Association of Animal Proteins (ABPA) and a researcher at University College Dublin (UCD), told Veterinary & Animal Science magazine how his innovative work comes Showing results in practice. (…) ”

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