The Food Animal Initiative works across academic disciplines to create research teams focused on:
Integrated Systems for Food Animal Health and Food Safety
Creating a systems approach to: – enhance animal health – promote disease resistance – prevent and combat infectious diseases and food safety-related micro-organismal contaminations
Integrated, Sustainable Food Animal Systems
A multi-disciplinary approach that: – enhances the sustainability of food animal systems – improves the environment and quality of life for all citizens
Digital Animal Agriculture
Development and application of digital technologies to improve the management and profitability of animal agriculture operations. Incorporates sensors, real-time monitoring, decision support systems, AI and associated technologies and applications.
Protein Innovation
– Innovation in protein processing – Development of value-added protein and other animal-based products – Development of cellular agriculture and comminuted products and processes
Food Animal Agriculture Communications
– Create research based communications of modern livestock and poultry production and processing operation practices. – Communicate fact-based knowledge for stakeholders and consumers and to proactively combat mis/dis-information