9/25/2023 0 Comments Psst alternative![]() ![]() So, whether you are conventional or organic, you run a large commercial enterprise or keep a few animals for home consumption whether you use a single ‘alternative’ product or you are totally ‘drug and chemical free’ – your experience is important! With US food imports on the horizon, it is even more important that successful wholistic farming treatments and methods for animal health are documented and evaluated. Please, farmers who are reading this, help us start to show what your non-conventional approaches can do to produce healthier livestock and healthier food. Much time and effort has been spent ensuring that we are asking the right questions in the right way so that farmers’ voices are heard and their expertise properly documented. This is a survey for farmers made by farmers with input from researchers. So, this year we are carrying out a survey aimed at learning more about the untapped reservoir of knowledge, experience and wisdom farmers have of natural and alternative practices and treatments, some of which have been passed down through generations. Whole Health Agriculture (WHAg) is a community of farmers, health professionals and consumers dedicated to supporting and promoting farmers who farm for health and learning what they do and what works – what is best practice. The upshot is that overall, we have a blinkered view about what farmers are using and what success they are having in managing their farms and livestock for health. These approaches are often ignored when anti-microbial strategies are presented and discussed. There are conventional and organic dairy farmers who use homeopathy and have significantly reduced vet and med bills others have success with probiotics, apple cider vinegar, Obsalim, essential oils, acupuncture, osteopathy, seaweed, herbs, cold water treatments and others swear by herbal leys, reduced stress and changed production profiles. But some of these are not getting the recognition they deserve. ![]() Between these, we expect a very lively debate.Do you use ‘alternatives’ to conventional drugs and other interventions to keep your livestock healthy? There are many farmers – conventional, organic and those in-between – successfully reducing or using low levels of antibiotics and they are using many different methods. Our keynotes are Professor Kirstie Ball, The Open University (world-leading expert in organisations and surveillance) and Professor Steve Mann, University of Toronto (‘father’ of wearable technology and expert on ‘sousveillance’, or watching the watchers). End users include a San Francisco start-up company that sends tiny satellites into space to take photos of the planet, a digital artist and a world-renowned ethical hacker. Our first seminar, Transparency Today: Exploring the Adequacy of Sur/Sous/Veillance Theory and Practice, is on 6 th January 2015 at Bangor University. Avoiding one-sided debates, we explore this premise in relation to privacy, security, surveillance and trust. In addition to world-leading academics, these include technology start-ups from Silicon Valley, politicians, European data protection regulators, representatives of the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office, data security companies, cryptographers, a world-leading ethical hacker, digital artists, representatives of privacy activist groups, among many others. ![]() To unpack, explore and debate these issues, delegates and attendees are coming from around the world. ![]() We are thus addressing a society-wide increase in information transparency and lack about personal choice on information disclosure. We’re also interested in how we watching each other through social media and newer technologies such as Google Glass. Together they are hosting seminars at Bangor, King’s College London, Sheffield, Brunel and Aberystwyth to explore life after the Snowden leaks of 2013 (that disclosed intelligence agencies’ mass surveillance of regular citizens).Īlthough impetus comes from the Snowden leaks, we are interested in the overall rise of watching, recording, processing and leaking of information about people by businesses, public services and security services. Vian Bakir of Bangor University is leading a team of interdisciplinary researchers from across the UK. Vian Bakir (SCSM) has won £30,000 from the ESRC for a 2-year Seminar Series (2014-16) onįunded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, Dr. SurSourVeillance by Stephanie Mann aged 6.: Creative commons licence.Dr. Intellectual Property (IP) and CommercialisationĭATA-PSST! Debating Alternative Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance, Trust.Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement.Integrated Research and Impact Support (IRIS) Service. ![]()
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