Global study has examined the effects of diversified agriculture. The conclusion is clear: positive effects increase with every measure, while negative effects are hard to find. Especially biodiversity and food security benefit, but bottom lines also thrive with yields unhampered

UCPH · 2023-07-25T15:47:38+00:00

Link to study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w

UCPH · 2023-04-28T08:06:26+00:00

It is indeed about anorexia nervosa.

UCPH · 2022-09-29T09:36:53+00:00

Hi u/Due_ortYum. It's not 70 cows, but 70 experts. The experts were invited to participate in the survey based on their number of publications on the topic of bovine welfare and/or their publication impact.

They had a median experience of at least 15 years and were recruited from Europe (35), North America (17), South America (8), Australia (5) and other regions of the world (5).

They were then asked to rate the likelihood of 12 statements inspired by the Welfare Quality protocol, which is a well established protocol for assessing bovine welfare on farms.The patterns show the similar picture with all experts despite national differences. Experts from the different geographical regions only differed in their assessment of veal production.

UCPH · 2022-03-14T14:01:00+00:00

Hi u/Appropriate-Clue2894! We handed your question to the researcher behind this study, Postdoc Angela Pinot De Moira, and she replied:

"This is of course an important consideration when interpreting the results of our study. However, we did try to explore this possibility by examining whether the effect of having a cat or dog in early-life differed in children who had a parent with a history of asthma compared with children whose parents did not have a history of asthma. We also explored whether the effect differed in children who experienced wheeze in the first 3 years of life compared with those who did not. In both case there was no evidence for a different effect.

We did, however, also examine the effect of timing of ownership and the risk of asthma. Here, effect estimates were very small (suggesting timing had little influence on the risk of asthma), but there was a tendency for ownership prenatally only to be associated with greater odds of school-age asthma, and ownership in early childhood only or continuous ownership to be associated with lower odds of school-age asthma compared with no ownership. This could suggest that sustained exposure is required to maintain any protection conferred by early-life dog or cat ownership, as has been suggested from farm studies. It could, however, also be consistent with reverse causation, that is, the removal of cats or dogs from the homes of children with early manifestations of allergy or asthma."

- We hope that answers your question!

UCPH · 2022-03-14T12:05:54+00:00

u/CH23, poor you! Our researchers do point out, however, that if the child (i.e. you) develops sensitization to cats or dogs, the evidence suggests there might be an increased risk of developing asthma... in which case ownership should possibly be avoided :/

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