Debate over role of farm animals in spreading of superbugs intensifies, as scientific study downplaying fears is accused of serious flaws. Tom Levitt reports
Salmonella study accused of 'exaggeration' in new battle over factory farm antibiotic use Tom Levitt | 31st January 2012 News Food And Farming Antibiotics Factory Farming Health antibiotc.jpg Medical …
Humanity has always lived under the threat of extinction, writes Anders Sandberg. Now we have reduced some of the dangers - but created new ones of our own. And right now, it's the anthropogenic threats that look the scariest ...
… Health Technology nuclear-explosion-cut.jpg Humanity has always lived under the threat of … the daily hubbub of current 'crises' facing humanity, we forget about the many generations … existential risks , that threaten to wipe out humanity. These risks are not just for big …
The current testing protocol for new medicines is proven to be inadaquate. It's time for a radical new approach, argues Kathy Archibald, director of the Safer Medicines Campaign
Why our testing of antibiotics and other drugs may not be safe Kathy Archibald | 23rd May 2011 Comment Antibiotics Health Drugs Animals Wildlife Society Comment 3.jpg Patients in clinical trials are …
Regulatory failures are allowing Danish pigs infected with lethal antibiotic-resistant bacteria into British farms, writes Andrew Wasley, with contaminated pork found in UK supermarkets, and three human infections recorded. The official response? Deny there's a problem, take no action, and hope for the best. Six people may have died from the bug in Denmark, but the UK is safe, surely?
Superbug-infected pigs get into Britain unchecked, contaminate food chain Andrew Wasley Bureau of Investigative Journalism | 14th October 2016 News Health Food Farming UK Denmark EU Regulation …
More than 31,000 animals were used in glyphosate 'safety' tests. Are we safe now?
Pesticide safety and flawed animal testing Emily McIvor | 28th February 2019 News Pesticides Monsanto PETA Food And Farming Animal Testing Thought Leaders animal-1554745_960_720.jpg More than 31,000 …
Antibiotics have saved countless millions of lives since the 1930s, but their power is failing due to their massive use in factory farming, horticulture, aquaculture and industry, says a new report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Antibiotics. We must stop all inessential uses of antibiotics, or face a future where we risk death from minor injuries and routine surgery.
Restrict antibiotics to medical use, or they will soon become ineffective Laura J V Piddock Richard Meek Victoria Wells Hrushi Vyas | 23rd October 2015 News Health Farming Science Regulation UK …
Bird flu has been raging through Asia for more than a decade. But it is only recently that most of us have started to pay attention to the story. Pat Thomas seperates fact from fiction and asks whether this is a random act of nature or yet another man-made disaster.
… virus. Doctors, seeing an opportunity to save humanity from a potential pandemic and get …
Extensive, long running evidence for the cancer-causing effects of glyphosate, and other toxic impacts, have been ignored by regulators. Indeed as the evidence has built up, permitted levels in food have been hugely increased, writes Dr Mae Wan Ho.
Glyphosate is a disaster for human health Dr Mae Wan Ho | 30th April 2014 News Farming Toxics Regulation Health USA EU Science roundup-ultra-cut.jpg Extensive, long running evidence for the …
Urgent calls from health experts to reduce antibiotic use on intensive farms are largely resisted by the agribusiness food lobby, who downplay its role in the spread of antibiotic resistance in humans. Tom Levitt reports
Overuse of drugs in animal farming linked to growing antibiotic-resistance in humans Tom Levitt | 23rd May 2011 News Antibiotics Food And Farming Health Factory Farming chickenscramped.jpg The …
Australia's climate change commissioner and author of new book Here on Earth talks to Matilda Lee about Gaia's true principles, the power of the internet and why legally binding climate treaties are pointless
… the globalised common intelligence of humanity, is a massively powerful information … minister Michael Meacher on the place of humanity in the universe, intelligent design, … Are We The Virus? - James Lovelock Does humanity need to be cut out of the ecosystem? …
In the last few years the Ecologist has written extensively on the flu – both the garden variety that strikes us on an annual basis and the wider threat of avian influenza, H5N1.
Making Sense of Swine Flu Pat Thomas | 1st April 2009 News Swine Flu H1n1 Factory Farming Agribusiness Biodynamics Organics Wine Beer And Cider Biodynamics Food And Farming Health Society …
The most forward-thinking coronavirus researchers are forgoing cruel and archaic tests on animals in favour of cutting-edge human-relevant methods.
Animal testing and the coronavirus crisis Samantha Saunders | 16th April 2020 News Editor’s Picks Animal Testing Covid-19 Coronavirus Science Health Medicine laboratory-2815632_1280.jpg The most …
With industry spinning that glyphosate is harmful to health, if at all, only with co-formulants like tallowamine, the World Health Organisation's cancer agency IARC has just released a Q&A document (below) stating that 'pure' glyphosate poses similar cancer and genotoxicity risks as its formulations. Banning particular co-formulants, as proposed by some EU countries, does not solve the problem.
WHO / IARC: glyphosate itself is the cancer and genotoxicity problem IARC | 11th March 2016 Comment Health Un Pesticides Toxics Regulation EU glyphosate-3d-vdw-cut-2.png With industry spinning that …
News headlines today suggest that a UN report on glyphosate residues has given the controversial herbicide a clean bill of health, writes Georgina Downs. But that's seriously misleading: the panel concludes that exposure to the chemical in food is unlikely to cause cancer. But that does not apply to those exposed to it occupationally or who live near sprayed fields.
No, the UN has not given glyphosate a 'clean bill of health' Georgina Downs | 17th May 2016 News Pesticides Health Toxics Un Regulation Media one.jpg News headlines today suggest that a UN report on …
Fresh concerns over the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections from farm animals to humans have been raised after scientists find new strain of potentially deadly superbug in dairy cows
'Routine antibiotic use' linked to new MRSA strain found in UK dairy cows Tom Levitt | 3rd June 2011 News MRSA Livestock Food And Farming Antibiotics Health Infection cowsindoors.jpg Fresh concerns …
MPs, medical professionals and scientists unite in demanding a thorough evaluation of the utility of vivisection. By Kathy Archibald, Science Director of Europeans for Medical Progress
Animal Testing: Science or Fiction? Kathy Archibald | 24th March 2009 News Animal Testing Pharmeceuticals Animal Rights Pharmaceuticals Risk Health Archive_172.jpg MPs, medical professionals and …
The overuse of antibiotics in intensive farming could have devastating consequences for human health. What's more, the safety of some antibiotics used in human medicine has been challenged by some patients who say they've suffered terrifying side effects...
Antibiotics under the spotlight The Ecologist | 12th June 2011 Comment Antibiotics MRSA E.coli Health Intensive Farming Comment Health antibiotics under the spotlight.jpg The overuse of antibiotics …
A dose of flu in winter is as inevitable as a broken boiler – and usually as harmless. But as public health expert Dr Michael Greger explains, intensive farming of animals around the globe may mean we are hatching out an influenza timebomb
… often did horses have chance to sneeze into humanity’s collective face until they were … permafrost for tissue samples, revealed that humanity’s greatest killer appeared to come … result from farming animals intensively… Yet humanity does not consider this option...’ The …
Bats serve as a natural reservoir for the Ebola - but we cannot blame them for the epidemic. In Ghana alone people eat over 100,000 fruit bats a year as 'bushmeat', yet the country has escaped the epidemic. Much more research is needed to discover the mechanisms of transmission, and to devise effective, appropriate interventions.
Ebola: don't blame the bats! Alexandra Kamins Marcus Rowcliffe Olivier Restif | 23rd October 2014 News Health Ghana Africa Ecology fruit-bat-ghana-cut.jpg Bats serve as a natural reservoir for the …
Pesticides remain the 'elephant in the room' for Michael Gove, the environment secretary, and DEFRA. But until the issue is properly addressed the environmental crisis and fears for human health will only continue, argues GEORGINA DOWNS
Is the new UK Agriculture Bill a triumph or a travesty? Georgina Downs | 14th September 2018 Comment Pesticides Agriculture Bill DEFRA Thought Leaders gove_snowy_3271751b.jpg Pesticides remain the …
We may need to alter how we use land across the world to reduce the risk of future spillovers of infectious diseases, study finds.
Land use linked to disease outbreaks Staff Reporter | 5th August 2020 News Science Systems Disease Health Zoonosis Land Use Factory farmed pig We may need to alter how we use land across the world to …
Doctors have been told to limit their use of antibiotics to limit the spread of microbial drug resistance, writes Emma Rose. But 40% of the UK's antibiotics are used on farms, of which 85% is fed to disease-free animals. We can no longer ignore the massive agricultural overuse of the drugs, now a major driver of antibiotic resistant infections.
Antibiotic resistance - what about routine misuse in farming? Emma Rose | 11th September 2015 Comment Health Farming Regulation UK EU pigs-in-pen-cut.jpg Doctors have been told to limit their use of …