The Chickens Fight Back

Author : David Waltner-Toews
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781926685014

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The Chickens Fight Back by David Waltner-Toews Pdf

If you have any interest at all in epidemiology, modern medicine, or the survival of the human race, do read The Chickens Fight Back —Georgia Straight Emerging diseases like mad cow, SARS, and avian flu are — for the moment, at least — far more prevalent in animals than in humans. Still, the knowledge that measles, TB, and smallpox were at one time “emerging” diseases that eventually made a permanent, and quite deadly, jump to humans gives epidemiologists pause. This book examines the various groups of animal diseases, explains what attracts them to the human population — from food to sex to living conditions — and offers suggestions for keeping them at bay. It also points out that diseases must be looked at from an ecological, cultural, and economic point of view as well as from a biological standpoint. Cooking meat till its well done and slathering on insect repellent for a hike in the woods are effective preventative measures, but as the author notes, it’s more important to fundamentally rethink humankind’s place in the world.

Author : David Waltner-Toews
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771648127

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On Pandemics by David Waltner-Toews Pdf

Containing important information about the coronavirus, this comprehensive, easy-to-follow primer on pandemics, epidemics, and the panics they ignite around the world also shares solutions for a safer, healthier future. “A quiet little gem of understanding in a cacophony of panic and fear.” —Quill & Quire, STARRED review Authored by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans—called zoonoses—including what attracts them to humans, why they have become more common in recent history, and how we can keep them at bay. Almost all pandemics and epidemics have been caused by diseases that come to us from animals, including SARS, Ebola, and—now—Covid-19. Epidemiologist, veterinarian, and ecosystem health specialist, David Waltner-Toews, gathers the latest research to profile dozens of illnesses in On Pandemics. Chapters are broken into short, dynamic explainers, each one tackling a different disease. Readers will discover: Why zoonotic diseases jump from animals to humans—and why some decide to stick around for good. How governments have responded to pandemics and epidemics throughout history, for better or for worse. The role of climate change, industrialized farming, cultural practices, biodiversity loss, and globalization in making these diseases not only possible, but inevitable outcomes of our modern lifestyles. Coronaviruses, such as those that cause SARS and Covid-19, have likely made bats their home for centuries. Until SARS came along, we didn’t know they were there, nor do we know how many other death-dealing viruses might be living undetected in wildlife. On Pandemics shows the greater impact of animal-borne diseases on our world, and encourages us to re-examine our role in pandemics, if not for our own health, then for the health of our planet. Published originally in 2007 as The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases that Jump from Animals to Humans, this book has been updated in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Waltner-Toews makes truly entertaining reading.” —Globe and Mail “A page-turner presented with irreverent humour and many hair-raising anecdotes.” —Vitality Magazine

Author : Gretchen Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Chickens
ISBN : 0972822550

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The Backyard Chicken Fight by Gretchen Anderson Pdf

Journalist and chicken-owner Gretchen Anderson chronicles the stories of people who are fighting City Hall for the right to own chickens. Find out how hen-keeping is ruffling feathers across the country. Also, learn the secrets to raising a healthy flock in your own backyard.

Author : American Veterinary Medical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Veterinary medicine
ISBN : UCD:31175031909974

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Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association Pdf

Vols. for 1915-49 and 1956- include the Proceedings of the annual meeting of the association.

Author : Sarat Colling
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628954128

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Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era by Sarat Colling Pdf

The concept of animal resistance is now reaching a wide audience across the social media landscape. Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era offers an overview of how animals resist human orderings in the context of capitalism, domestication, and colonization. Exploring this understudied phenomenon, this book is attentive to both the standpoints of animal resisters and the ways they are represented in human society. Together, these lenses provide insight into how animals’ resistance disrupts the dominant paradigm of human exceptionalism and the distancing strategies of enterprises that exploit animals for profit. Animals have been relegated to the margins by human spatial and ideological orderings, but they are also the subjects of their own struggle, located at the center of their liberation movement. Well-researched and accessible, with over fifty images that aid in understanding both the experiences of and responses to animals who resist, Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era is an important contribution to scholarship on animals and society. The text will appeal to a broad audience interested in the relationships between humans and the other animals with whom we share this planet.

Author : Deb Olin Unferth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644451144

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Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth Pdf

An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland—a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits—assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues. Deb Olin Unferth’s wildly inventive novel is a heist story of a very unusual sort. Swirling with a rich array of voices, Barn 8 takes readers into the minds of these renegades: a farmer’s daughter, a former director of undercover investigations, hundreds of activists, a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens, and a security guard who is left on an empty farm for years. There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet. We hear what hens think happens when they die. In the end the cracked hearts of these indelible characters, their earnest efforts to heal themselves, and their radical actions will lead them to ruin or revelation. Funny, whimsical, philosophical, and heartbreaking, Barn 8 ultimately asks: What constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? Unferth comes at this question with striking ingenuity, razor-sharp wit, and ferocious passion. Barn 8 is a rare comic-political drama, a tour de force for our time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1492 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021787085

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The Reader's Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sue Coe
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781682190753

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The Animals' Vegan Manifesto by Sue Coe Pdf

Sue Coe’s advocacy of animal rights is unmatched in its eloquence, forcefulness, and lasting impact. She does so with a combination of extraordinary images and few words. In her unstinting insistence on tolerance and love, Coe brings us to a life-affirming philosophy that values compassion over greed, community over self, and life over capital. In 115 black-and-white woodcut illustrations for The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto, Sue Coe unleashes an outraged cry for action that takes its rightful place alongside the other great manifestoes of history. As a prize-winning artist, she bears witness to unspeakable crimes, and has long advocated that we human beings must take more responsibility for ourselves, our fellow species, and the planet. Her illustrations, in the tradition of Goya, Kollwitz, and Grosz, will be familiar to many; her paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited in galleries and museum around the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Author : David Waltner-Toews
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781770903975

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The Origin of Feces by David Waltner-Toews Pdf

An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, this cultural history explores an often ignored subject matter and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives--evolutionary, ecological, and cultural--this examination shows how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution, and global ecosystems. From primordial ooze, dung beetles, bug frass, cat scats, and flush toilets to global trade, pandemics, and energy, this is the awesome, troubled, uncensored story of feces.

Author : R. A. A Lover of the Sport
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539174751

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The Royal Past Time of Cock Fighting by R. A. A Lover of the Sport Pdf

This special re-print edition of the famous work "The Royal Past Time of Cock Fighting" is a facsimile of one of the earliest English language books ever written on Game Fowl and cock fighting. Written in 1709 by an individual identified only as "R.H., A Lover of the Sport," this very rare book was later reprinted in a numbered limited edition of only one hundred copies in May of 1899. This special reprint was created utilizing one of the very few surviving copies of that special 1899 facsimile edition. Subtitled "the Art of Breeding, Feeding, Fighting and Curing cocks of the Game. Published purely for the good, and benefit of all such as take delight in that Royal, and War-like Sport," this interesting historic title offers a very rare look at Game Fowl breeding and the sport of cock fighting as it was practiced in England over three hundred years ago. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background. This book is presented as part of large series of educational material on the history and raising of numerous chicken breeds. The material presented herein contains information on the sport of cock fighting and is intended to be strictly for educational purposes with the purpose of enlightening Game Fowl breeders about the history of their breed. Publication of the material is neither an endorsement, nor a criticism of its contents.

Author : Indiana Academy of Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Science
ISBN : UVA:X030789357

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Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science Pdf

Author : Dick King-Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141389080

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The Fox Busters by Dick King-Smith Pdf

Flightless, helpless and often, more than a little silly, chickens are no match for the cunning, merciless foxes stalking their coop. Or are they? Thanks to a careless farmer and generations of determined foxes, the chickens on Foxearth Farm have evolved into quick-witted, long-legged, high flying fox dodgers. Then, just a week after a vicious fox ambush in the water trough, three sisters are hatched. And Ransome, Sims and Jefferies are no ordinary chicks: they grow up determined to fight back. They are the legendary Fox Busters . . . From the number one author for animal magic comes this wonderful new edition of a much-loved classic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Birds
ISBN : CORNELL:31924061414847

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The Loon by Anonim Pdf

Author : Virginia Stem Owens
Publisher : Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801052416

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Assault on Eden by Virginia Stem Owens Pdf

Author : Will Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social prediction
ISBN : UCAL:B3882978

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African White Tribes by Will Roberts Pdf