VetSalus Book Review: Under a White Sky: Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Sixth Extinction”, which was awarded the Pullitzer Prize for General Non-fiction in 2015, provided a grim account of the arrival of the ‘anthrophocene’, a new epoch in the earth’s geological history, in which human beings have for the first time become the primary agents of change on a planetary scale. The book described the current carnage of the world's biomass, which is now predicted to be the most devastating since the asteroid impact which destroyed the dinosaurs.

VetSalus Book Review: English Pastoral: James Rebanks

This is a refreshing, honest, optimistic and ultimately, I believe, important book. James Rebanks is well known to many within the UK farming scene. He is a multi- generational farmer who farms in the Lake District in the North of England; leaving school at 16 Rebanks took his A levels at evening classes, later being accepted by Oxford University where he achieved a double first in history.

An Introduction To Sustainability in Farm Vet Practice

The ‘Introduction To Sustainability in Farm Vet Practice’ document is the first piece produced by Vet Sustain’s Food & Farming Working Group. The article comprises a series of case studies discussing work already being done by practicing vets, which improve on farm efficiency and sustainability, both directly and indirectly.

 

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