Mojo ♻️Election? What election ? 🤣🤣 #VictorianElection2022 #MurdochGutterMedia
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Monika Merkes PhD Ⓥ
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Passionate about the health and wellbeing of humans, other animals and the environment - and the links between them.
#PublicHealth #Vegan #AnimalProtection #Melbourne #Australia
#PublicHealth #Vegan #AnimalProtection #Melbourne #Australia
@paulpeace Unfortunately, to discover this, healthy bees were treated with the pesticides and then underwent several procedures (not sure whether any bees survived).
At least, the research was done for the benefit of the species. Although, indirectly it was of course done for the benefit of humans, because we need bees to pollinate our food.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/finsc.2022.936826/full
Research on insects is not subject to animal ethics committee approval.
Chronic exposure to insecticides impairs honeybee optomotor behaviour
Honeybees use wide-field visual motion information to calculate the distance they have flown from the hive, and this information is communicated to conspecifics during the waggle dance. Seed treatment insecticides, including neonicotinoids and novel insecticides like sulfoxaflor, display detrimental effects on wild and managed bees, even when present at sublethal quantities. These effects include deficits in flight navigation and homing ability, and decreased survival of exposed worker bees. Neonicotinoid insecticides disrupt visual motion detection in the locust, resulting in impaired escape behaviors, but it had not previously been shown whether seed treatment insecticides disrupt wide-field motion detection in the honeybee. Here, we show that sublethal exposure to two commonly used insecticides, imidacloprid (a neonicotinoid) and sulfoxaflor, results in impaired optomotor behavior in the honeybee. This behavioral effect correlates with altered stress and detoxification gene expression in the brain. Exposure to sulfoxaflor led to sparse increases in neuronal apoptosis, localized primarily in the optic lobes, however there was no effect of imidacloprid. We propose that exposure to cholinergic insecticides disrupts the honeybee’s ability to accurately encode wide-field visual motion, resulting in impaired optomotor behaviors. These findings provide a novel explanation for previously described effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on navigation and link these effects to sul...
Grumpy Philosopher@DLClough - these kind of farms are becoming increasingly common. Even in the UK, there are around 1100 mega farms, including 4 poultry farms with over 1 million birds each & 3 pig farms with more than 20,000 pigs each. 73% of animals farmed in the UK are intensively farmed. If the environmental damage & the zoonotic diseases don’t kill us, there’s a chance will come to realise how wrong the cruelty is.
650,000 pigs to be kept in a single 26 storey factory, designed to slaughter 1.2 million animals per year, & not a single word in this 700 word #Guardian story about the disgusting inhuman cruelty of it all. The only concern is for the threat to human health & comfort. Disappointing from @TheGuardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-ready-to-produce-1-million-pigs-a-year #animalethics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-ready-to-produce-1-million-pigs-a-year #animalethics
Aaron Dodd@[email protected] I don't want to get complacent but I feel this country is finally safe for a long time ahead!
Twitter may be about to fold but here in Australia it it has been now a huge factor in keeping the hard right out in two Australian elections now
The next challenge is take on media
@VeganIsTheBaseline Ja, das sehe ich auch so, bin ja auch seit 11 Jahren vegan. Wie du sagst, es ist ein Anfang. Waehrend der letzten Jahre gabs hier in Australien schlimme Waldbraende und Ueberschwemmungen, und viele Menschen haben alles verloren. Da waren die Sikhs immer sehr schnell zur Stelle mit ihren Curries. Bewundernswert. Ansonsten gehen meine Spenden zu Organisationen, die sich dem Tierwohl widmen (und meine ehrenamtlichen Taetigkeiten auch).
@VeganIsTheBaseline Hier in Australien spende ich fuer die Sikh Volunteers Australia. Diese Organisation teilt vegetarische Mahlzeiten an beduerftige Menschen aus.
https://sikhvolunteersaustralia.org/
https://sikhvolunteersaustralia.org/
AnnaGovernment owned utilities and services. How I miss thee.
Just imagine if we’d nationalised all our natural resources. What lost opportunity. Imagine no Gina Rinehart.
Why do Australians accept mediocrity? We could be the best in the world at so many things.
SimoneThe Victorian election demonstrates yet again why we need a Royal Commission into media ownership. Regardless of the outcome, it’s fair to say that Matthew Guy’s Coalition wouldn’t stand a chance without NewsCorp’s relentless attacks on Dan Andrews the last three years, including one of the most hyperpartisan election coverages ever in this country. #SpringSt #VicVotes #AusPol #ThisIsNotJournalism
Why does a paper like the Saturday Paper, whose authors express socially progressive views and are well aware of anthropogenic climate change, still publishes all these meaty recipes? Today it’s coq au vin. It’s the reason why I don’t buy the #SaturdayPaper. For the same reason I don’t subscribe or donate to the #Guardian.
#AnimalAgriculture is a major contributor to climate change, and they know it.
#AnimalAgriculture is a major contributor to climate change, and they know it.