Stories
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’
All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.
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Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds.
Simmonds P. L. (Peter Lund), 1814-1897.Date: 1877- Archives and manuscripts
'The Animal Protein Factor'
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Feb 1951Reference: WF/C/M/PB/12Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Animal biotechnology : science-based concerns / Committee on Defining Science-based Concerns Associated with Products of Animal Biotechnology, Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health, and the Environment, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies.
Date: [2002], ©2002- Archives and manuscripts
Nutrition Products
Date: 1973Reference: WF/M/P/31/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
"An Investigation into Group Products Policy for Livestock Products..."
Date: 1969Reference: WF/C/E/06/4/2Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd