Animal Care

Milk proteins, health issues and its implications on National Livestock Breeding Policy of India

Increasing evidence supporting the correlation between bovine beta-casein and disorders in milk consumers has led to the development and popularity of A2 milk and milk products worldwide. The indigenous cattle population of India harbours the preferred A2 allele of beta casein; however, genetic improvement of this c

Publication Date:

10/10/2018

Author(s): Ashish Kumar, Bakul Rao, Arun Kumar De

Source: Current Science

Vol:

115

Issue:

7

pp:

1393-1398

Tags:

Livestock, Animal Breeding, Nutrition, Milk

Animal Care

Rapid, widespread African swine fever in China believed to be through pork

Tracking meat and meat products from pigs infected with African swine fever is key to fight the spread of the highly viral disease as it can survive in processed food, the Deputy head of the World

Publication Date:

11/09/2018

Tags:

Animal Care, Livestock, Animal Diseases, China, Pigs, Swine Flu, Diseases

Animal Care

Japan culls 546 hogs after detecting first swine fever outbreak in 26 years

TOKYO, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Following Japan's first outbreak of swine fever in 26 years, a local government said on Tuesday it had culled 546 hogs in the centre of Honshu, the country's largest and

Publication Date:

11/09/2018

Tags:

Animal Care, Swine Flu, Influenza, Japan, Livestock, Pigs, China, Animal Diseases

Animal Care

What is the safe operating space for EU livestock?

Europe’s animal farming sector has exceeded safe bounds for greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient flows and biodiversity loss, and urgently needs to be scaled back, according to a major report.

Publication Date:

01/09/2018

Author(s): Allan Buckwell, Elisabet Nadeu

Source: The RISE Foundation

Tags:

Livestock, Animal Products, European Union (EU), Green House Gases

Environment

A year on, NGT ban on Chinese manjha in Delhi up in air

NEW DELHI: A year after the National Green Tribunal banned the use of any synthetic thread coated with glass or other abrasives for flying kites, the so-called Chinese manjha continues to be surrep

Publication Date:

07/08/2018

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Delhi, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Birds, Animal Care, Environmental Health, China, Environment

Health

Monitoring global progress on addressing antimicrobial resistance: analysis report of the second round of results of AMR country self-assessment survey 2018

Countries are making significant steps in tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR), but serious gaps remain and require urgent action, according to a report released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Publication Date:

18/07/2018

Source: FAO

Tags:

Antibiotics, Health Effects, Animal Care, India, Global

Animal Care

Zimbabwe Faces Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak in South, East

Zimbabwe's veterinary department has placed two districts under quarantine and stopped the movement of all cattle in or out after ...

Publication Date:

12/07/2018

Source: Bloomberg

Tags:

Animal Care, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD), Animal Diseases, Livestock, Zimbabwe, Africa

Animal Care

Order of the Uttarakhand High Court regarding protection and welfare of animals, 04/07/2018

Judgement of the Uttarakhand High Court in the matter of Narayan Vs Union of India & Others dated 04/07/2018 regarding protection and welfare of animals. The petitioner has sought directions to the respondents to restrict the movement of horse carts/tongas from Nepal to India and from India to Nepal through Banbasa, District Champawat, India. Petitioner has prayed that there should be provisions for vaccination, medical checkup of the horses for suspected infections before entering into the Indian territory from Nepal and for regulating the traffic on the border areas.

Judgement Date:

04/07/2018

Tags:

Animal Cruelty, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), High Court, India, Nepal, Cattle, Livestock

Animal Care