December 6, 2016.
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has just launched a new slogan: “Protect animals, preserve our future. A slogan that reminds us of the importance of taking animal welfare into account if we want to stay healthy.
Improve animal feed
Human health and animal health are interdependent. This is in essence what the World Organization for Animal Health reminded us of, during an awareness campaign. But are we really aware of it? According to a team of researchers working under the direction of biochemist Jacques Mourot, specialist in animal nutrition, it is by improving animal nutrition that we will improve human health.
To get a diet richer in omega-3s, for example, researchers are encouraging breeders to introduce flax seeds and microalgae into the feed of cows. In addition, eating a poultry, treated with antibiotics, will not be without consequences for our body. In the long term, we will develop resistance to antibiotics, which can put our health at risk.
Beware of pesticides
Let us take another example, that of bees. It is ” as the main pollinators of wild and cultivated plants, bees render a vital service to ecosystems, facilitating their sustainability and the maintenance of biodiversity », Explains the OIE. “ Man is thus indebted to them for abundant harvests of fruits and vegetables, contributing to world food security. “
Agriculture that uses pesticides intensively leads to the disappearance of these pollinators keys and this represents a biological, agronomic, environmental and economic disaster.
Finally, if we are interested for a moment in rabies that kills more than 60,000 people every year around the world, we say to ourselves that by attacking the disease at its root, this number could decrease significantly. When will the mass vaccination campaigns for dogs in all countries of the world?
