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"Epidemics are a product of urbanization. Only when humans started to pack themselves into densely populated cities around 5,000 years ago were infections able to attain the critical mass needed to kill us in large numbers. The worldwide disease outbreaks we call pandemics started to emerge only when our urban civilization went global. "Think about that in terms of the livestock industry and the implications are concerning. In the space of 50 years or so factory farming has “urbanized” an animal population that was previously scattered between small and midsize holdings. Epidemic conditions that once only affected humans can increasingly pose threats to our food animals, too." From Rob Wallace, who is a harsh critic of capitalist farming methods. Whereas Wallace once had "a promising career" working for the UN body on agriculture, now his career is in the toilet because he was serious about looking at the relationship between agricultural methods and pandemics. Wallace has written a book called "Big Farms Make Big Flu" which you can actually read online for free. (I ordered a hard copy.) Interesting that he's being published on Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-23/coronavirus-how-china-s-food-industry-impacts-pandemics -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
