In this issue:
- Cost of worms – Australian sheep industry
- ParaBoss Tech Workshop – Coffs Harbour, March 2016
- Gluten
- Reading and writing on paper best?
- Pink balls and colour blindness
- Richie Benaud – lamb – Australia Day 2015
Cost of worms – Australian sheep industry
From ParaBoss News, December 2015
http://www.paraboss.com.au/news/newsletters/1450903840.php
‘The cost of worms to the sheep industry is estimated to be $436M: annual production losses of $342M and treatment/preventative costs of $94M. Priority list of endemic diseases for the red meat industries.‘
So, the visible or obvious cost ($94M) is ~ 22% of the total cost, whereas the biggest cost (~78%) – production losses – are largely invisible, unless deliberately measured. (“If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it”).
Likewise, worms themselves are more or less invisible, and so is drench resistance, unless you deliberately test for it.
Parasitic diseases are generally the most important health problem of grazing livestock but, like many other important things in life, they rarely scream for attention.
ParaBoss Technical Forum – Coffs Harbour NSW March 2016
‘BOOK by 22 January 2016: email deb@paraboss.com.au
…however, book flights asap to avoid missing out’.
More information:
http://www.paraboss.com.au/news/newsletters/1450903840.php
Spectrum of Gluten-Related Disorders: People Shall Not Live by Bread Alone?
Alessio Fasano – Spectrum of Gluten-Related Disorders: People Shall Not Live by Bread Alone – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvfTV57iPUY Very interesting.
From wiki: ‘Alessio Fasano is an Italian medical doctor, pediatric gastroenterologist and researcher. He holds the W. Allan Walker Chair of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Furthermore he is Vice Chair of Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research and Division Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston.
He has made major contributions to the understanding of autoimmune diseases, in particular coeliac disease.’
Coeliac disease: the clinical chameleon.
Reading and writing on paper can be better for your brain?
Pink ball in cricket and colour blindness
http://theconversation.com/we-need-to-ditch-the-pink-ball-in-day-night-test-cricket-52083
The article says 25% of people have some degree of colourblindness. Take the test for colour blindness.
‘Richie Benaud will not Lamb alone this Australia Day’
An ‘oldie but a goodie’. The MLA-sponsored lamb promotion advertisement for Australia Day (26 January) last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpZhJcZD2H4
Some of this will be lost on those not familiar with Australian culture, history and cricket. Who, for example, is Bill Birmingham? Billy Birmingham is ‘an Australian humourist and sometime sports journalist, most noted for his parodies of Australian cricket commentary in recordings under The Twelfth Man name’. As for Ned Kelly, coeliac disease, in the past at least, has been thought to be more prevalent in those of Celtic origin, despite the ‘sledging’ (in the video) by nardoo (ngardu)-eating Burke and Wills.
Sadly Richie Benaud died 10 April 2015, shortly after this video was first aired.
Sam Kekovich Australia Day (we love our lamb) ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWVJikNnx4&list=PL7RgGl9hEueV6hbImDyik3t_8jV2hhA5h
Regards,
SL
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