Rethinking Food Sources – Lessons from Swine Flu Outbreak
No, I’m not renaming it to “Lessons from H1N1 flu, Mexican Virus, North American influenza or novel flu virus”. Changing the name removes us from responding to the issue properly. It is clear that the flu outbreak was caused by conditions in hog CAFO (confined animal feeding operation). CAFO is another nice acronym removing us from the reality of the operation.
Back to the topic of the blog. I was living in Northern Westchester, NY in the early 90′s and was in desperate need of organic foods. I had become convinced [...]