David Barrett

Consultant Editor

How can we contribute to sustainability goals?

The United Nations has defined 17 Sustainable Development Goals including no poverty, zero hunger, good health and wellbeing, gender equality, clean water, climate action and sustainable use of the...

Cattle Review: September–October

Although control measures to tackle bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle have been successful in many parts of Europe, this disease has not been eradicated in areas where Mycobacterium bovis circulates...

Responsible medicine use: but who is responsible?

There is good reason why many medicines are prescription only (POM-V); in the case of antibiotics this is to ensure they are not misused resulting in the rapid development of antimicrobial resistance...

Veterinary students and young colleagues

Those of us that were there in 2001 pulling together to try to control the most serious Foot and Mouth (FMD) epidemic ever seen in the UK, will I'm sure have thought long and hard about those time and...

Is what we know being used for the good of humanity?

In my January editorial I discussed change in a new decade, little did we know the extent of change we were about to experience or the profound impact that change would have on our businesses and our...