Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
More than thousand people, mainly students and researchers, took to the streets of Oxford, uk, to participate in a rally on February 25, 2006. Some marched in support of building Oxford University's biomedical research laboratory and against harassment by animal rights activists, while a counter protest opposed the lab construction. …
Medication goes hand-in-hand with mechanisation. But the latter not only increases the vulnerability of the poultry stock, it also robs jobs and marginalises the unorganised rural backyard sector. Though many experts agree that it is the intensive methods used in industrial poultry farming that is largely responsible for epidemics like …
The news that Indian poultry in parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat have been detected with the deadly avian influenza virus may have temporarily shaken chicken eaters in the country. But it will be a mistake to believe that we have contained the problem, simply because we have culled (killed and …
An animal rights group in the us has filed a lawsuit against United Illuminating Co (uic) in Connecticut, US, seeking to stop removal of monk parakeet nests from utility poles. Filed in the New Haven Superior Court by Friends of Animals, the lawsuit followed the recent removal of 103 nests …
Throughout the field notes of the 27 Zoos reviewed in this report, a significant number of common problems were identified. While some of these problems are easily rectified, others are systemic in nature and will require considerable effort to address. In some cases, the conditions encountered in specific Zoos were …
tobacco is in for a drastic change in image: a known carcinogen, it may now be used to help fight cancer. The plant might be one of the most effective ways to produce drugs, such as therapeutic antibodies (proteins that fight infection), and vaccines against breast cancer, among other diseases, …
Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's recent pursuit of the controversial deal to stock a safari park in Thailand with African animals has again fueled a long standing controversy. Reportedly, up to 135 animals might be involved in exchange for Thai technical assistance. Also a donation of around us $490,000 million …
Nestle has launched N escafe Partners' Blend, a new coffee carrying the F airtrade mark. The "Partners Blend' soluble instant coffee is the first such Nestle product made from coffee grown by smallholders in El Salvador and Ethiopia. This is a shift in Nestle's policy, which previously was against paying …
hunting appeal rejected: Pro-country sports organisation Countryside Alliance (CA) lost its case against British government's ban on hunting. The court ruled against CA's claim that the Hunting Act
South Africa (sa), again wants to cull elephants, a practice it halted in 1994 in the face of public outrage. Between 1967 and 1994 over 14,000 elephants were "removed' from the country's Kruger National Park by culling and over 2,000 relocated to other game reserves. Government scientists complain that the …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Gujarat Vs Mirzapur Moti Kureshi Kassab Jamat & Others dated 26/10/2005 regarding prohibiting the slaughter of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle, Gujarat.
the Indian government and the country's scientific fraternity have reacted sharply to a proposal by two British researchers that the Mad Cow disease could originally have been caused by contaminated cattle feed imported from the Indian subcontinent. "The theory is based on a wild speculation and is not backed by …
Sheep route: The most formidable BSE theory till date. BSE could have originated in cattle fed with meat and bone meal (MBM) from sheep or goats infected by scrapie, a similar TSE. Captive or wild animals: Possible infection from a TSE-infected animal kept in a zoo or farm or wild …
The past year's droughts in Africa, central America, Asia and Europe are part of an emerging, global warming-induced pattern that will become more pronounced if climate change is not curbed. In 2005, one in six countries will face food shortages, un scientists warned on June 29, 2005. The admonition was …
scientists at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (ivri) in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, have developed the country's first vaccine against the notorious peste des petits ruminants (ppr) disease that afflicts sheep and goats. Also known as sheep and goat plague, ppr epidemics occur every year in India, causing an annual loss …
