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by Marion Nestle
Apr
27
2009
Swine flu, CAFO’s, Smithfield, China: connecting the dots
Eating Liberally’s ever curious kat connects the dots between the current swine flu crisis (getting worse by the minute) and China’s interest in buying America’s largest pork producer, Smithfield Foods. She wonders what I think about all that. See the latest Ask Marion: “Who needs bioterrorism when we’ve got manure lagoons.”
April 29 update: Here is Grain’s report on these connections.