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Protect Our Seniors

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In many cultures, to be a senior or elder is to be respected and revered for their wisdom. In our fast-paced North American society however, older people are not always valued and may be marginalized or suffer abuse. Last month, Isabelle Mymko organized a presentation at the Sandy Lake Seniors Drop-In Centre entitled Senior Safety:
Livestock

Why Vaccine Administration May Fail

DVM Vaccines cost money and take effort to administer. We must maximize the immune response to get maximum protection of our livestock ensuring protection from disease. This is good from both a biosecurity standpoint as well as an economic one. Clinical disease such as scours, pneumonia outbreaks or abortions all affect our bottom line. This
Opinion

The Ambassador’s Cheerios

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David Jacobson, U.S. ambassador to Canada, gave this year’s Fulbright Lecture at McGill University on Canada-U. S. relations. He used the occasion to argue that the two countries should sit down together and negotiate greater regulatory harmonization, especially in areas such as food standards. He illustrated his point by making fun of the “unnecessary” differences
Hogs, News

African Swine Fever May Spread To Europe FAO

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African swine fever (ASF), a viral disease harmless to people but lethal to pigs, is likely to spread beyond Russia and the Caucasus region into Europe, the United Nations’ food agency said May 26. ASF, for which there is no vaccine, is now established in Georgia, Armenia and southern Russia, with an increasing number of
Hogs, Livestock

Eradication Of Animal Disease A First

The cattle disease rinderpest that has devastated animal herds for centuries no longer exists, making it the first-ever animal illness eradicated by humankind, world animal health body OIE has reported. The 198 countries with rinderpestsusceptible animals have been declared free of the disease, also known as cattle plague. It caused major outbreaks of famine by
Livestock

Canada Bird Flu Free Once More

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Three months of surveillance work in Manitoba’s Interlake region have restored Canada’s status as fully free of notifiable avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported May 5 the end of “targeted, enhanced surveillance” in the area where a turkey-breeding operation was confirmed last November to have birds with low-severity avian influenza H5N2. No new
News

New Findings On Foot-And-Mouth

Scientists studying foot-and-mouth disease have found that cattle with the virus are infectious for only a very short time, suggesting that mass culling previously used to reduce the disease’s spread may in future be avoided. In research published in the journal ScienceMay 5, scientists found that even if the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus is detected
Opinion

Food In Canada — Eat At Your Own Risk

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Canada’s public and private sectors are not doing enough to prevent foodborne illnesses. Among the major failings are inadequate active surveillance systems, an inability to trace foods from “farm to fork” and a lack of incentives to keep food safe along the “farm to fork” pathway. The result? Eleven million or more episodes of food-related
Forages, Oilseeds, Opinion

Letters – for May. 5, 2011

Accommodating different views on technology I read with great interest and then dismay the article in the April 21Manitoba Co-operator titled “KAP opposes Roundup Ready alfalfa’s release in Canada.” There are two things of note in regards to this article. The first is the quote made by Paul Gregory in regards to the Canadian Seed

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