Last week’s most read posts – four posts qualify as most read in the June 30thAHD Bulletin
- Guide to medical professionals who specialize in caring for pets. Link.
- The complaint department. Link.
- Pet food inflation hits new high, with many reasons why. Link.
- Grass-fed versus grain-fed ground beef. Does it matter? Link.
Previous AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Link.
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Bio Detection K9 partners with Purdue University to train canines to detect diseases in cannabis and hemp
Source: Cannabis Business Times, July 7, 2022. Link. Columbus, Ohio-based Bio Detection K9 offers canine and technology-based services to detect viruses and pathogens in human hosts and agricultural settings. The company recently partnered with Purdue University to develop processes for training canines to detect diseases in hemp and cannabis crops.
“Not Guilty”; Chicken price-fixing trial ends
Source: Drovers, July 8, 2022. Link. The verdict is in and the five chicken industry executives on trial for conspiracy and bid rigging from 2012 to 2019 were acquitted by a jury in Denver federal court <Link>.
Superworms could transform plastic recycling
Source: The Hill. Link. (video) Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia discovered the larval stage of the common Zophobas morio beetle has a unique appetite for especially styrofoam. A bacterial enzyme in the worms’ gut is capable of digesting polystyrene and styrene.
8-inch giant African snail resurgence in Florida
Source: The Byte, July 4, 2022. Link. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is warning residents to not touch the snails without gloves. The African snail carries a parasite called rat lungworm, which can cause meningitis, or the inflammation of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord, in humans.
There may be 50,000 more spider species left to discover
Source: Interesting Facts. Link. According to the World Spider Catalog maintained at the Natural History Museum of Bern in Switzerland scientists expect another 50,000 spiders will be discovered in the next 100 years. According to some estimates, the world plays host to a collective 25 million tons worth of spiders. A 2017 study concluded that those spiders eat between 485 million-970 million U.S. tons of food a year.