Animal biotechnology/genomics, Uni of CA Davis, Mom/Mum, Consumer, Ag Science, 🇦🇺🇺🇸Uni of Melbourne, Food Evolution Blog: https://t.co/LxfPv5bpCZ
Oct 31, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
In 2015 I wrote a post about the @nytimes hit piece "“U.S. Research Lab Lets Livestock Suffer in Quest for Profit” questioning the accuracy of their reporting noting the distress & angst it caused my colleagues 🧑🔬and professional friends at @USDA MARC beefmagazine.com/beef-quality/w…
That same year I also wrote a post about the @nytimes piece "Food Industry Enlisted Academics in G.M.O. Lobbying War, Emails Show" noting the distress & angst it caused my colleague🧑🔬and professional friend @kevinfoltascience20.com/alison_van_een…
@suresh_arvind@marynmck@9brandon There is a lot to this thread – first let me respond that health and welfare traits are very much included in selection indexes – for example in broiler selection >50% of selection weighting goes to health, welfare, and fitness - trends are improving ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20308417 1/11
@suresh_arvind@marynmck@9brandon Likewise in dairy the index has matured over time to move from a sole emphasis on milk production to a balanced index with now a -1 rating on milk production! Yes you read that correctly queries.uscdcb.com/AGIL-cache/ref…@John_B_Cole .@biobeef 2/11
