http://healthspectator.com/2009/08/21/factory-farming-is-key-to-swine-flu-epidemic/ Health News, Views & Analysis---Helping You Take Charge of Your Health Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:02:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://healthspectator.com/2009/08/21/factory-farming-is-key-to-swine-flu-epidemic/#comment-809 Victory Gardening Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:29:16 +0000 http://healthspectator.com/?p=1569#comment-809 I've been thinking about the potential double effect of a factory farm caused pandemic. It appears that the extreme concentration or centralization of our food supply could create a pandemic. If a deadly outbreak were to emerge from a country with such overly centralized food, it seems to me likely that there could be a greater potential for agriculture and food supply chains to be affected as well, as sickness of the fewer numbers of existing farmers alive today than existed in the past, often now producing monoculture crops, could mean a larger impact on our food supply than if more people were growing their own food in a more decentralized system, perhaps even growing their own food as was far more common during the Spanish Flu outbreak. I’ve been thinking about the potential double effect of a factory farm caused pandemic. It appears that the extreme concentration or centralization of our food supply could create a pandemic. If a deadly outbreak were to emerge from a country with such overly centralized food, it seems to me likely that there could be a greater potential for agriculture and food supply chains to be affected as well, as sickness of the fewer numbers of existing farmers alive today than existed in the past, often now producing monoculture crops, could mean a larger impact on our food supply than if more people were growing their own food in a more decentralized system, perhaps even growing their own food as was far more common during the Spanish Flu outbreak.

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