Polio vaccines, eco brands, environment.

Date:
1994
  • Audio

About this work

Description

1) Green monkeys from Barbados are used to produce polio vaccine. Animal rights campaigners (BUAV) protest at the way the monkeys are mistreated, and the RSPCA wants an alternative vaccine if possible, but John Balu defends the present vaccine. 2) Detergents which wash "whiter than white" contain phosphates which leave rivers and ponds slimy green, covered in algae. The benefits of alternative zeolite detergents, however, may not be as clear as advertised. The "Phosphate Report" by Bryn Jones (Greenpeace), in a life-cycle analysis, finds little to choose, and phosphates could be removed from sewage - an end-of-cycle method. Sue Mayor, Richard Courtney and Brian Appleyard discuss this dilemma, and other issues such as global warming.

Publication/Creation

London : BBC Radio 4, 1994.

Physical description

1 sound cassette (30 min).

Notes

Broadcast on 11th May 1994

Creator/production credits

Presented by Mark Whittaker. Other participants are Sarah Kite (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection); John Balu; Maggie Jennings (RSPCA); Dr Sue Mayor (Dir. of Science, Greenpeace); Dr Richard Courtney (British Assn of Colliery Management); Brian Appleyard (columnist)

Copyright note

BBC Radio

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