“they are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that’s why you should invest,” ryan merkley, who leads the physicians committee’s research into animal-testing alternatives, tells wired. “and we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these ...
In Saskatchewan’s Wanuskewin Heritage Park, bison are a vital piece of the indigenous cultural history and have been brought back from the brink to help rewild fragile grasslands.
This chapter covers emerging zoonotic diseases, with a focus on the current understanding of how and where zoonotic pathogens circulate, their pathways to emergence, potential for sustained human-to-human transmission, and gaps in our knowledge. The first cluster of infections among people may be re...
Don’t put your hands in your mouth after petting or playing with animals. Keep other items that have come into contact with animals out of your mouth. Don’t kiss cats, dogs, chickens, turtles, lizards, or other pets or animals. Don’t let children younger than age five, people wi...
Antimicrobial resistance is a public health threat. Because antimicrobial consumption in food-producing animals contributes to the problem, policies restricting the inappropriate or unnecessary agricultural use of antimicrobial drugs are important. However, this link between agricultural antibiotic use and antib...
The public is concerned about the accuracy of food marketing, particularly antibiotic usage in animal products according to research by Food Forward. Promoting the illusion of exceptional animal treatment and practices while masking industrial conditions under which animals are raised and slaughtered, is ...
Even at the moment of this writing, I received an alert fromCNN that 60+wildfires are burning in Australia. Hundreds of Koala Bears are feared dead. The low humidity (dry air) is fueling them. If the human disaster and toll doesn't affect you, what about Koala Bears and other wildlife...
It was a dark time for animals. Poaching was rampant. Wild birds and mammals were being slaughtered by the thousands. An out-of-control wildlife trade was making once-common animals hard to find and pushing rare species into extinction.
Sadly, 870 million (one in eight people) on this planet are hungry every day. My parents brought me up to respect food and not waste it. I grew up in a village and we've always had our own animals: chickens, geese, pigs and rabbits. Taking care of them made me appreciate even ...
Viet people used them as draft animals, not for food. Then the French slaughtered cows for beef steaks and the chewy bits inspired pho. Then people just took it in new directions. But the broth is always delicately clear and aromatic. And there are flat rice noodles. Andrea Nguyen says ...