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 …
Category: Food in News
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 flu …
I was walking through a park on the weekend and came across a farmer selling food. He’d set up a few tables outside a church and had some vegetables, maple syrup and fresh eggs on offer. I bought some eggs, the last four that he had of his neighbour’s morning collection. They were big and brown …
On CBC Radio’s the Current this morning, there was some discussion about whether or not today’s interest in resurrecting the family farm was merely nostalgia for a romanticized notion of the past or whether ditching the industrial farm was a real and sustainable plan for the future of our food system. Of course, I am inclined to …
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