Healing Animals & the Vision of One Health

Dr. Fox distills a lifetime of work with animals, to reveal the suffering they endure, as science and agribusiness damage and destroy crops, animals, pets, people, and the planet to increase profits. He links animal illness with human and planetary health. He points out numerous ethical dilemmas facing veterinary medicine: Overdependence on corporate profit margins, erosion of quality animal husbandry and compassionate care, cloning and genetic engineering, the problems of agribusiness, vaccination, and commercial pet and livestock food. Then, he offers solutions, such as consuming less meat, control of genetically modified food and the importance of eating organic. His basic message is that health care has to include people care, animal care and earth care. The different approaches to the problems of agriculture, medicine (plant, animal and human), pharmaceuticals, industry, preservation, and conservation can be combined in the idea of a global One Health movement. Health is a personal responsibility, but that has to be based on global bioethical imperatives of equal consideration and respect for life and the natural environment.