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Tell me how…

How do you ACHIEVE A BALANCED DIET?

How do you FEED 9 BILLION PEOPLE?

How do you RECONCILE HUMANS WITH LIVESTOCK FARMING?

How do you LIMIT THE USE OF ANTIBIOTICS?

How does A VACCINE WORK?

How can we NATURALLY STIMULATE OUR IMMUNITY?

How do you DEVELOP HERD IMMUNITY?

How are VACCINES PRODUCED?

Worldwide, 650 million people are obese while at the same time 750 million are undernourished. Eating a balanced diet means eating three varied meals a day, with the right proportion of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and fibre. We must use everything but abuse nothing. For a balanced diet, 45 g of animal protein per day is recommended by nutritionists, which is the equivalent of 150 g of meat or 4 eggs. Rebalancing daily meals and preventing malnutrition are the major challenges facing 21st century agriculture.

By 2050, the Earth will be home to 9.8 billion people whose food needs will require 40% more protein. Our current modes of production will not be able to respond to this increase in volume on their own and without evolving, while guaranteeing the necessary sustainability for our Planet. To meet this challenge, several complementary solutions are available:

– Conventional and alternative livestock farming: improving sustainability, ethics and performance,
– Plant based proteins: increase their share in our diet, with more legumes in particular,
– Innovative proteins: imagine new sources of virtuous proteins, such as insect protein and cultivated meat.

Groupe Grimaud is committed to serving the historical animal sectors while supporting innovation dedicated to complementary animal proteins.

Service sector growth, environmental and health concerns, and concern for animal welfare: livestock farming and the people fed by it have never been so far apart. Yet, humanity has been raising livestock for over 10,000 years, and animal protein has always been one of the keys to our development. At the heart of our food, we must encourage the reconnection of livestock farming with our society. Several avenues for work:

– Reduce the environmental impact of animal production,
– Promote alternative medicine,
– Use antibiotics only as a last resort,
– Acting for continuous improvement of animal welfare,
– Return their letters of nobility and proximity to the final consumer to animal husbandry activities.

Antibiotic resistance is due to the systematic and massive use of antibiotics, especially in livestock farming. It has an impact on human health, animal health and ecosystem health which are interconnected.

We have been working to limit the use of antibiotics for years. Our solutions include the selection of more robust animals and prophylaxis – all measures to prevent disease:

– In the environment: by applying health protection best practices, respecting hygiene rules, and managing directed bacterial ecology (see page 30),
– In animals, by stimulating immunity through the ingestion of bacterial flora (natural microbial competition), and by vaccination against major pathogens,
– By using antibiotics only in case of a proven pathology and not as a preventive measure.

‘Standard’ vaccines are produced from inactivated viruses* . Inactivation consists in rendering the virus harmless, either by killing it, or by cancelling its virulence by successive reproductions; but while keeping its characteristic structure. Mixed in sterile conditions with a suitable adjuvant and then injected, it stimulates the body’s immune system. The white blood cells then recognise the structure of the inactivated virus (the antigen) and produce the appropriate defence antibodies.

Thus, in case of contact with the pathogenic virus, the body is armed to protect itself against infection.

* Messenger RNA’ vaccines work differently by ‘teaching’ our immune system to produce antibodies to destroy a targeted protein (the one that is the key to entry of the virus).

Like any environment, our body is constantly in contact with undesirable and potentially pathogenic germs. A healthy and balanced diet (see page 9), good hydration as well as prebiotics and probiotics (e.g. yoghurts, which protect our intestinal flora) help to form a barrier to the implantation of these pathogenic microbes. In addition, vaccination stimulates our natural and specific defences (in particular through the production of antibodies) against certain major pathogens.

Herd immunity is the percentage of a protected population from which an infected individual will transmit the pathogen to less than one person on average. The disease or epidemic in question is then controlled, or even brought to extinction, because the pathogen that encounters too many protected subjects can no longer thrive. This herd or collective immunity can be achieved through natural infection or mass vaccination of a population. The percentage of the protected population needed to achieve herd immunity varies from one infection to another depending on its natural replication rate or the appearance of variants. Of course, acquired immunity must remain effective over time, hence the need for booster vaccines when their effectiveness diminishes. There are many examples of diseases that have been eradicated and/or controlled through vaccination: polio, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, hepatitis, etc.

Our biopharmaceutical divisions and partners develop human and veterinary vaccines, based on the standard technology, called ‘inactivated vaccines’ This type of vaccine is produced in 4 phases under GMP conditions (Good Manufacturing Practices):

1/ Multiplication of the targeted pathogen on eggs or cell line,
2/ Inactivation of the pathogen if the agent has not been attenuated,
3/ Possible addition of an immune stimulating adjuvant,
4/ Sterile bottling.

tell me how…

HOW DO YOU ACHIEVE A BALANCED DIET?

Worldwide, 650 million people are obese while at the same time 750 million are undernourished. Eating a balanced diet means eating three varied meals a day, with the right proportion of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and fibre. We must use everything but abuse nothing. For a balanced diet, 45 g of animal protein per day is recommended by nutritionists, which is the equivalent of 150 g of meat or 4 eggs. Rebalancing daily meals and preventing malnutrition are the major challenges facing 21st century agriculture.

HOW DO YOU FEED 9 BILLION PEOPLE?

By 2050, the Earth will be home to 9.8 billion people whose food needs will require 40% more protein. Our current modes of production will not be able to respond to this increase in volume on their own and without evolving, while guaranteeing the necessary sustainability for our Planet. To meet this challenge, several complementary solutions are available:

– Conventional and alternative livestock farming: improving sustainability, ethics and performance,
– Plant based proteins: increase their share in our diet, with more legumes in particular,
– Innovative proteins: imagine new sources of virtuous proteins, such as insect protein and cultivated meat.

Groupe Grimaud is committed to serving the historical animal sectors while supporting innovation dedicated to complementary animal proteins.

HOW DO YOU RECONCILE HUMANS WITH LIVESTOCK FARMING?

Service sector growth, environmental and health concerns, and concern for animal welfare: livestock farming and the people fed by it have never been so far apart. Yet, humanity has been raising livestock for over 10,000 years, and animal protein has always been one of the keys to our development. At the heart of our food, we must encourage the reconnection of livestock farming with our society. Several avenues for work:

– Reduce the environmental impact of animal production,
– Promote alternative medicine,
– Use antibiotics only as a last resort,
– Acting for continuous improvement of animal welfare,
– Return their letters of nobility and proximity to the final consumer to animal husbandry activities.

HOW DO YOU LIMIT THE USE OF ANTIBIOTICS?

Antibiotic resistance is due to the systematic and massive use of antibiotics, especially in livestock farming. It has an impact on human health, animal health and ecosystem health which are interconnected.
We have been working to limit the use of antibiotics for years. Our solutions include the selection of more robust animals and prophylaxis – all measures to prevent disease:

– In the environment: by applying health protection best practices, respecting hygiene rules, and managing directed bacterial ecology (see page 30),
– In animals, by stimulating immunity through the ingestion of bacterial flora (natural microbial competition), and by vaccination against major pathogens,
– By using antibiotics only in case of a proven pathology and not as a preventive measure.

HOW DOES A VACCINE WORK?

‘Standard’ vaccines are produced from inactivated viruses* . Inactivation consists in rendering the virus harmless, either by killing it, or by cancelling its virulence by successive reproductions; but while keeping its characteristic structure. Mixed in sterile conditions with a suitable adjuvant and then injected, it stimulates the body’s immune system. The white blood cells then recognise the structure of the inactivated virus (the antigen) and produce the appropriate defence antibodies.

Thus, in case of contact with the pathogenic virus, the body is armed to protect itself against infection.

* Messenger RNA’ vaccines work differently by ‘teaching’ our immune system to produce antibodies to destroy a targeted protein (the one that is the key to entry of the virus).

HOW CAN WE NATURALLY STIMULATE OUR IMMUNITY?

Like any environment, our body is constantly in contact with undesirable and potentially pathogenic germs. A healthy and balanced diet (see page 9), good hydration as well as prebiotics and probiotics (e.g. yoghurts, which protect our intestinal flora) help to form a barrier to the implantation of these pathogenic microbes. In addition, vaccination stimulates our natural and specific defences (in particular through the production of antibodies) against certain major pathogens.

HOW DO YOU DEVELOP HERD IMMUNITY?

Herd immunity is the percentage of a protected population from which an infected individual will transmit the pathogen to less than one person on average. The disease or epidemic in question is then controlled, or even brought to extinction, because the pathogen that encounters too many protected subjects can no longer thrive. This herd or collective immunity can be achieved through natural infection or mass vaccination of a population. The percentage of the protected population needed to achieve herd immunity varies from one infection to another depending on its natural replication rate or the appearance of variants. Of course, acquired immunity must remain effective over time, hence the need for booster vaccines when their effectiveness diminishes. There are many examples of diseases that have been eradicated and/or controlled through vaccination: polio, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, hepatitis, etc.

HOW ARE VACCINES PRODUCED?

Our biopharmaceutical divisions and partners develop human and veterinary vaccines, based on the standard technology, called ‘inactivated vaccines’ This type of vaccine is produced in 4 phases under GMP conditions (Good Manufacturing Practices):
1/ Multiplication of the targeted pathogen on eggs or cell line,
2/ Inactivation of the pathogen if the agent has not been attenuated,
3/ Possible addition of an immune stimulating adjuvant,
4/ Sterile bottling.

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