The recent Lancet Commission report rightly pointed out that climate change is a huge risk to global public health. But it shied away from one of the main issues: the world consumes far too much meat.
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Now that Victoria and Queensland have reported on their inquiries into the greyhound racing industry, it is timely to consider the findings of the reports and their implications for the animal industries of Australia.
New research upends the previous theory that tsetse flies – and the disease they carry – were the main reason the spread of livestock domestication in Africa stalled out for a thousand years.
Temple Grandin is perhaps the world’s foremost advocate on autism. But before she became famous, she was an awkward young girl who found solace in Mr. Spock’s logical world view in TV’s Star Trek.
Going vegetarian might help reduce your personal footprint - but it won’t save the climate. Richard Eckard explains.
For millions of livestock owners across Africa, a disease in the herd can mean hardship or even ruin. Access to effective veterinary treatment is therefore essential for many people’s livelihoods. Many…
While Brazil’s footballers have failed spectacularly to live up to expectations, there are other areas where the country is quietly exceeding them. Perhaps surprisingly, Brazil’s rapidly improving animal…
Bovine tuberculosis is a major problem in the UK: in 2013 around 8m cattle were tested and 32,000 slaughtered at a cost of an estimated £100m, including compensation – a huge economic burden that makes…
Australia looks set to resume exporting live sheep to Iran, after Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce this week flagged the end of a 40-year ban following Iran’s Islamic revolution. Flanked by the chief…
Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is the biggest threat to the livestock industry in England and Wales. At present, bovine TB is still not under control in parts of these countries, and there is no single measure…
Raising livestock accounts for the largest single land-use on Earth. Cattle, sheep and goats, pigs and poultry occupy around 30% of the planet’s land area not covered in ice, generate 40% of the world’s…
The resources required to raise livestock and the impacts of farm animals on environments vary dramatically depending on…
Badgers in the UK are an important wildlife reservoir for bovine tuberculosis, a disease that leads to the slaughter of thousands of cattle each year at a significant cost to the tax payer. But the badger…
The chaotic failure of the government’s pilot badger cull in Somerset and Gloucestershire, aimed at curbing bovine TB, illustrates some of the problems that arise when policymakers ignore scientific studies…
Vaccinating cattle against the E. coli O157 bacterium could cut the number of human cases of the disease by 85%, according…
The precise locations and date of the imminent badger cull are secret, but the aim is clear: to see if marksmen can shoot and kill badgers humanely and efficiently. If so, a wider cull will follow. For…
What do the pilot badger culls due to start this weekend in Gloucester and West Somerset hope to achieve? The official line is a 16% reduction of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle herds over the next…
A breakthrough has been made towards finding a vaccine for an parasite known to cause bovine abortion. Australian researchers…
The identification of a new sorghum gene may help feed livestock in the world’s poorest nations. Sorghum is known to be incredibly…
The role of animals in the Olympics — both during the opening ceremony and throughout the wider competition — is rightly generating controversy. When it was first announced that non-human animals would…
Principales colaboradores
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Specialist, CGIAR System Organization
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Professor of Veterinary Infectious Diseases, University of Liverpool and International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya, University of Liverpool
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Fellow, Zoological Society of London
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Former Foundation Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Queensland, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor of Applied Environmental Health , University of Maryland
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Senior Researcher and Statistician, University of Hohenheim
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Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of Climate Sciences, Duke University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
