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Globalisation et intensification de l'agriculture : la menace à notre système d'alimentation animale

Ted Bilyea

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Ted Bilyea

Résumé de la communication

The world is undergoing unprecedented intensification of agriculture to meet increasing demands of population growth and rapid shift to more protein and fat intensive diets driven by rising incomes in the developing world. Diet change has sparked a livestock revolution which has seen the number of food animals in the world double in the last 20 years and is forecast to double again as population moves from 6.8 to over 9 billion people by 2050. The livestock revolution accounts for over 21 billion food animals produced/year under what F.A.O. has termed the long shadow of intensification, including environmental damage and constant animal disease threat. Nowhere has this been seen more than in China where a shift is underway from households raising a few pigs and chickens to large scale hog and poultry operations located close to cities. Densities of hogs, chickens and people in these areas form a reservoir for continuously evolving disease, many with zoonotic pandemic potential. H5N1 now endemic in Asia poses a serious threat to world health as it mixes with swine viruses. The greatest threat to our swine industry emanates from disease in the developing world. However, disease elsewhere has been a stimulus for expansion of the Canadian industry. The Blue Ear related 10 million ton drop in China’s pork production in 2007 was just one example of a disease threat and opportunity. Success of the Canadian industry depends on dealing with disease threats and seizing opportunities.

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Liste des conférenciers : Dr Daniel Larocque, GlaxoSmithKline Inc. Titre : Le rôle et mode d'action des adjuvants dans l’efficacité vaccinale. (le vaccin influenza) Dr Patrick Boerlin, University of Guelph Titre : L’utilisation d’antibiotiques chez les porcs M. Ted Bilyea, Ted Bilyea and Associates Inc. Titre : Globalisation et intensification de l’agriculture Dre Veronika von Messling, Institut Armand-Frappier Titre : Étude de l’influenza tant ''in vitro'' qu’''in vivo'' chez le furet