Human health impacts lecture 7

what are some positive consequences of animal agriculture on the environment

1) rotational grazing(grazed paddocks are resed and allow from growth)

2) helps with firebreaks (animals graze on flammable plant material)

what are some positive consequences of companion animals on the environment

1) working animals like conservation detection dogs (locate endangered/invasive species)

2)reduce free rooming pets which benefits wildlife like the cat vs birds

what is the connection between animal use and human health

Biomedical and psychological medical research

-shared anatomical and neurological structures

-many medical advancement’s because of animal research

what happened to infant mortality because of animal reserach

infant mortality has gone down since advancement of vaccinations using animal testing

what are the 2 ways in which there is poor translation of animal studies

-Internal validity

-external validity

iternal validity

issue with experiment design,data collection, or analysis

external validity

issue with results, they do not translate to other animals or humans

what is another use of Animal use and Human health besides medical

Source of nutrition , animals a good source of

• proteins, fats vitamin A

what is a negative effect of animal use as a source of nutrition

Food safety risk: from production to consumption, overconsumption heart and cancer risk

pet ownership and human health

pet owners had

• lower resting rates

• lower pulse and arterial pressure

• walked significantly more

compassion fatigue

humans experience emotional ad psychological stress when working with animals in laboratories

-especially when they are required to preform procedures that cause animals harm

what happens with animal human contact and zoonotic disease

-increase is spread of disease worldwide

what are zoonoses

disease that pass between people and animals

what percent of all human pathogen are zoonotic

61%

what are examples of diseases that move through animal bites or scratches

-Bacteria liek Bartonella that causes cat scratch fever

-rabies

ringworm

what is a vector transmitted

flease, ticks, flies ,mosquitoes

what is disease transmited from animal feces/parasite eggs

-roundworms, salmonella

what is the one health concept

Human helath, animal health, and environmental health and all one and connected

what are good and bad impacts of animal use and economic impacts on companion animals

bad

vet bills

good

show pets

what are good and bad impacts of animal use and economic impacts on Biomedical use

bad= expense on reasearch

good= make medicine makes corporations (cvs)

what are good and bad impacts of animal use and economic impacts on agricultural use

bad= taxes on land=more money fro products

good=offers many jobd to people, farmers markets