February 15, 2020 Sanitizing the Technologies of Slaughter Whether it was done by hand or machine-assisted, sanitary measures must be observed in the facilities and instruments used for slaughter. The process of…
February 4, 2020 CoVID-2019 Outbreak: Why We Need to Rethink About Our Relationship with Wild Animals Right before the year ended on 31 December 2019, cases of pneumonia of unknown origin and etiology were reported in Wuhan City, Hubei Province…
November 13, 2018 Some Thoughts on Going Green and the Challenges of Global Food Sustainability First published at Shun Hing College Medium on 24 October 2018. I wrote this as a speaker’s response on food sustainability and going green…
September 16, 2017 Ancient Bovines “Egyptian medicine, it has been argued, emerged from attempts to preserve the health of large animals due to their religious and economic value within…
September 15, 2017 Pavlov’s Dog and the Active Role of Animals in the History of Medicine One of the challenges of writing animal histories and its role in public health lay in the anthropocentric nature of history. It is a…
August 20, 2017 Of Mice and Men A Philippine feminist poet wrote a poem on the country’s war on drugs. By using the rodent as an analogy, she describes the ever-recurring…
August 16, 2017 The Paradox of Animal Welfare There is an interesting article in the magazine Our Dumb Animals, published in 1931. The magazine was published by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention…
July 10, 2015 What I Learned From Writing About Carabaos In the past two years that I have been writing my master’s thesis, I can already consider myself as an expert of the Philippine…
