ABOVE: Scientists versus farmers – lab-grown meat could soon be legally sold in Australia, but it’s not without opposition. After a Sydney company’s application to produce quail, Australia’s food regulator is deciding whether laboratory-grown meat can be sold to consumers. In a Sydney warehouse, with no animals, producers are trying to grow enough meat to…
ABOVE: While the researchers were able to replicate necrotic enteritis for research purposes. Their next challenge lies in fully understanding how clostridium perfringens infects poultry and causes its devastating effects. Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine are working to develop a vaccine for necrotic enteritis, a devastating disease that causes enormous…
ABOVE: Staff will care for the turkey poults during their mandatory 13-week stay in quarantine. Australia’s state-of-the-art avian quarantine facility is filling the role of midwife to nearly 3000 turkey poults in Victoria. The team at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s Post Entry Quarantine facility in Mickleham together with industry experts have nurtured…