Series: "UC Davis Newswatch" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 15935]

Working amid all the high-tech medical equipment at the UC Davis Veterinary Hospital is a low-tech artisan, campus farrier Marc Gleeson. He makes horseshoes, incorporating newer approaches with ancient practices. Series: "UC Davis Newswatch" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 15917]

Series: "UC Davis Newswatch" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 15924]

Series: "UC Davis Newswatch" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 15901]

Sacramento area community members are urged to sign-up their dogs as blood donors. By developing a group of 300 to 400 regular donors, blood donor dogs will not have to live at the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. Series: "UC Davis Newswatch" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 15950]

Series: "UC Davis Newswatch" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 15918]

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes writer Michael Pollan for a discussion of the agricultural industrial complex that dominates consumer choices about what to eat. He explores the origins, evolution and consequences of this system for the nation’s health and environment. He highlights the role of science, journalism, and politics in the development of a diet that emphasizes nutrition over food. Pollan also sketches a reform agenda and speculates on how a movement might change America’s eating habits. He also talks about science writing, the rewards of gardening, and how students might prepare for the future. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 15882]

Journalist Michael Pollan joins a panel of farmers, government officials and healthy food choice advocates outline a nutrition agenda for the next presidential administration. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presents" [Public Affairs] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 15417]

Veterinarians are playing an important role in protecting the nation's food supply. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory veterinarian Dr. Pamela Hullinger describes how scientists at the lab are working to develop tests and computer disease models to detect toxins and keep our national livestock safe from foreign diseases. Series: "Lawrence Livermore National Lab Science on Saturday" [Agriculture] [Show ID: 15236]

Animal biotechnology encompasses a broad range of techniques for the genetic improvement of domesticated animal species including selective breeding, artificial insemination, cloning, and genetic engineering. Learn about both biomedical and agricultural applications of animal biotechnology and some of the science-based and ethical concerns that are engendered by certain applications. [Agriculture] [Show ID: 14991]