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ISBN-13
9781583675892
Narrative Type
Non-Fiction
ISBN
9781583675892
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject Area
Natural Science
Publication Name
Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
Item Height
229 mm
Author
Rob Wallace
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Subject
Business
Item Width
152 mm
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry - each animal genetically identical to the next - packed together in megabarns, grown out in a matter of months, then slaughtered, processed and shipped to the other side of the globe. Less well known are the deadly pathogens mutating in, and emerging out of, these specialized agro-environments. In fact, many of the most dangerous new diseases in humans can be traced back to such food systems, among them Campylobacter, Nipah virus, Q fever, hepatitis E, and a variety of novel influenza variants.Agribusiness has known for decades that packing thousands of birds or livestock together results in a monoculture that selects for such disease. But market economics doesn't punish the companies for growing Big Flu - it punishes animals, the environment, consumers, and contract farmers. Alongside growing profits, diseases are permitted to emerge, evolve, and spread with little check. That is, writes evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace, it pays to produce a pathogen that could kill a billion people. In Big Farms Make Big Flu, a collection of dispatches by turns harrowing and thought-provoking, Wallace tracks the ways influenza and other pathogens emerge from an agriculture controlled by multinational corporations. Wallace details, with a precise and radical wit, the latest in the science of agricultural epidemiology, while at the same time juxtaposing ghastly phenomena such as attempts at producing featherless chickens, microbial time travel, and neoliberal Ebola. Wallace also offers sensible alternatives to lethal agribusiness. Some, such as farming cooperatives, integrated pathogen management, and mixed crop-livestock systems, are already in practice off the agribusiness grid.While many books cover facets of food or outbreaks, Wallace's collection appears the first to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics and the nature of science together. Big Farms Make Big Flu integrates the political economies of disease and science to derive a new understanding of the evolution of infections. Highly capitalized agriculture may be farming pathogens as much as chickens or corn.

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Monthly Review Press,U.S.
ISBN-13
9781583675892
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221774887

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Number of Pages
400 Pages
Publication Name
Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
Language
English
Subject
Business
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Natural Science
Author
Rob Wallace
Format
Paperback

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229 mm
Item Width
152 mm

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United States
Title_Author
Rob Wallace

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