The need to include animal protection in public health policies

The latest issue of Jones' mother provided an article on a cumbersome list of domestic "abstention laws" that criminalize the disclosure of contamination and abuse at animal feed and slaughterhouses. Ted Genoways will describe the events and players that caused the following events in "Gagged by Big Ag".

Many people believe that the law (enacted in 8 states and enforced in 15 states) is the right to exercise the first amendment of investigative journalists and activists. Doctrine "

1990: Kansas prohibits admission to private animal facilities and destroys business within the facility.

1991: Colorado introduced "vegetarian 诽谤" law allowing producers to sue people who lower their products' value ... governor's veto

1996: Texas Beef Group appealed Oprah Winfrey for $ 11 million and said that "another hamburger made me cold," beef's price dropped by 7 cents per pound. Mr. Winfrey said some American Road Association stated that mad cow disease has a greater outbreak than AIDS. The jury's rules support Mr. Winfrey

2006: Federal animal business terrorism law is signed by GW Bush and is "registered" for those who want to make movies for criminal acts, or who would like to appeal business or owners.

2012: Missouri passed the "Breaking" law so movie abusers need to broadcast movies to the police station within 24 hours.

2012: Beef Products Inc. filed a $ 1.2 billion lawsuit against ABC News for "Pink Slime" investigation

2013: Amy Meyers fired outside the barbed wire at the Smith Meatpacking slaughterhouse, so it became the first person accused under the Aggag Act of Utah. The factory owner is the mayor. After bloggers advertised, these claims fell.

The Genoways article provides a map of the United States showing that eight countries have Aggag law and nine countries have pending laws

Concerns about animal abuse and its impact on public health are rising. In a recent commentary published in the Journal of Public Health Policy, Aysha Akhtar explains that effective animal protection can bring at least three important effects.

The incidence of new infection decreases due to insufficient treatment of animals and the incidence of various factions declines

Since abuse of animals is regarded as a sentinel event that may trigger early intervention, domestic violence may be alleviated

"If we ignore the overlap between human health and animal therapy it may not be possible to find a solution to the major public health problems.If there is no relationship there may be opportunities to tackle important health problems I do not. "

Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA are co-editors of the Journal of Public Health Policy. He is directing the Vermont State Department of Health, the Department of Health in Colorado, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and the National Vaccine Program of the United States of America.

Introduction The Public Health Act is a tool to protect and promote public health and is guided by a set of three principles known as the central function of public health including assessment, policy planning and guarantee (Disease Control and Prevention Center, 2012); Florida Department of Health, 2012). It plays an important role in reducing disease and premature death. It also reviews government authority with various levels of judiciary to improve health.

Veterinary vaccines protect animals health and public health, reduce animal suffering, effectively produce food animals to support emerging populations, and the need for antibiotics to address the needs of food and partners It plays an important role of dramatically reducing the number of people. Striking examples include rabies vaccine and burdock vaccine. The rabies vaccine for livestock and wildlife virtually eliminates human rabies in developed countries. As worldwide burdock eradication programs involve immunization, trade restrictions and surveillance, burdocks may become the second disease to be eradicated globally (after smallpox). Approved New Technologies Successful examples of animal vaccines include gene deletion type marker vaccines, virus like particle vaccines, recombinant modified live virus vaccines, chimeric vaccines, and DNA vaccines.