John will be with us talking about DD213 Environment & society. He’ll talk about how research on factory farms and food borne disease, in particular mega-poultry farms in the UK, has been tra...nslated into a teaching format. The focus of the research was the clash between, on the one hand, the affordability of industrially-produced chicken and, on the other hand, food safety, biosecurity and pathogenic risk. Affordability, it seems, comes at a price, and that price is food-borne diseases like Campylobacter: the main cause of food poisoning in the UK, leading to over 20,000 hospitalisations every year and even death in some instances. Churning out a highly perishable product on an industrial scale, it turns out, provides the prime conditions for disease to thrive in ways that pose pathogenic threats to consumers.
Series: | ‘Research, teaching and you’ from FASS |
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Episode | 3 |
Recording date: | 03-05-2018 |
Published: | 2018 |
Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all Digital Archive web pages. |
Duration: | 00:27:29 |
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Presenter: | Karen Foley |
Contributors: | John Allen; Parvati Raghuram; Tendayi Bloom |
Publisher: | The Open University |
Link to related site: | Internal url: http://studenthublive.open.ac.uk/abstract/session-3-ppedg-translating-research-teaching-migration-citizenship-and%E2%80%A6chickens?event=%E2%80%98Research%2C%20teaching%20and%20you%E2%80%99%20from%20FASS |
Production number: | SHL00300 |
Available to public: | yes |