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A healthy diet can save the lives of 50 million people a year

Apr 20, 2025 | Diets, FeedVSFood, One Health

The common paths of the Planetary Health Diet, by the Eat Lancet Commission, and the Mediterranean diet by Francesco De Augustinis A drastic reduction in animal proteins, a larger use of “healthy” fats, such as olive oil or dried fruit, the central role of vegetables,...

Is Avian Flu Already Endemic? Here’s What Scientists Know

Jul 10, 2023 | Factory farming, One Health

Will avian influenza cause the next global pandemic? Scientists suspect highly pathogenic avian influenza may already be endemic in the Americas and Europe. With more and more news stories cropping up about new strains of avian flu, it’s difficult to know exactly how...

Fish farms in Mediterranean ‘paradise’ blamed for pollution

Mar 22, 2021 | Fish farms, One Health

The environmental impact of fish farming in the Mediterranean Sea The cages float on the surface of the sea. They can be seen clearly from the shore: 27 circles 20-30 metres in diameter, each hiding underwater nets that contain hundreds of thousands of fish. Some are...

A 12-storey pig farm: has China found the way to tackle animal disease?

Sep 21, 2020 | Factory farming, One Health

Biosecure farms complete with staff quarantine and chutes for dead pigs are seen as progress, but may carry their own risks The buildings do not even look like farms. They are huge grey concrete blocks, many storeys high, which stand side by side in the middle of what...

Deforestation and factory farms, a “Disneyland” for the spread of new viruses

Apr 26, 2020 | Deforestation, Factory farming, One Health

According to different estimates based on FAO data, every year globally over 150 billion animals (also taking into account fishing) end up in our food production cycle, of which at least 80 billion through intensive farming. The magnitude of this number is even more...

Why the loss of a tropical forest is connected with my health in Italy or New York City?

Apr 21, 2020 | Deforestation, One Health

“The destruction of ecosystems is behind the increase of diseases of animal origin”, says Inger Andersen, director general of the UN environment program (Unep). In 2016, the United Nations Environment Program UNEP published a report (Frontiers 2016) in...