The Locavore

I am saddened by the move to rebrand the swine flu as H1N1. Not only is it inaccurate, as explained by an article in today’s Globe and Mail, but it obfuscates the influenza’s connection to farming. It makes it seem as if this flu bug appeared out of nowhere.
True, we don’t know where the swine [...]

My article on the possible link between swine flu and industrial farming that I wrote for Macleans.ca is online:
No one yet knows for sure where this swine-flu came from, but the chance that pig manure spread an infection is “quite possible,” says Ellen Silbergeld, an epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public [...]