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Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Farm Demonstration Monthly
Author:
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Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Printing, Showing the Condition of the Public Printing and Binding
Author: United States. Government Printing Office
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1990
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1990
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Big Farms Make Big Flu
Author: Rob Wallace
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583675914
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
The first collection to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science together Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry—each animal genetically identical to the next—packed together in megabarns, grown out in a matter of months, then slaughtered, processed and shipped to the other side of the globe. Less well known are the deadly pathogens mutating in, and emerging out of, these specialized agro-environments. In fact, many of the most dangerous new diseases in humans can be traced back to such food systems, among them Campylobacter, Nipah virus, Q fever, hepatitis E, and a variety of novel influenza variants. Agribusiness has known for decades that packing thousands of birds or livestock together results in a monoculture that selects for such disease. But market economics doesn't punish the companies for growing Big Flu—it punishes animals, the environment, consumers, and contract farmers. Alongside growing profits, diseases are permitted to emerge, evolve, and spread with little check. “That is,” writes evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace, “it pays to produce a pathogen that could kill a billion people.” In Big Farms Make Big Flu, a collection of dispatches by turns harrowing and thought-provoking, Wallace tracks the ways influenza and other pathogens emerge from an agriculture controlled by multinational corporations. Wallace details, with a precise and radical wit, the latest in the science of agricultural epidemiology, while at the same time juxtaposing ghastly phenomena such as attempts at producing featherless chickens, microbial time travel, and neoliberal Ebola. Wallace also offers sensible alternatives to lethal agribusiness. Some, such as farming cooperatives, integrated pathogen management, and mixed crop-livestock systems, are already in practice off the agribusiness grid. While many books cover facets of food or outbreaks, Wallace's collection appears the first to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics and the nature of science together. Big Farms Make Big Flu integrates the political economies of disease and science to derive a new understanding of the evolution of infections. Highly capitalized agriculture may be farming pathogens as much as chickens or corn.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583675914
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
The first collection to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science together Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry—each animal genetically identical to the next—packed together in megabarns, grown out in a matter of months, then slaughtered, processed and shipped to the other side of the globe. Less well known are the deadly pathogens mutating in, and emerging out of, these specialized agro-environments. In fact, many of the most dangerous new diseases in humans can be traced back to such food systems, among them Campylobacter, Nipah virus, Q fever, hepatitis E, and a variety of novel influenza variants. Agribusiness has known for decades that packing thousands of birds or livestock together results in a monoculture that selects for such disease. But market economics doesn't punish the companies for growing Big Flu—it punishes animals, the environment, consumers, and contract farmers. Alongside growing profits, diseases are permitted to emerge, evolve, and spread with little check. “That is,” writes evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace, “it pays to produce a pathogen that could kill a billion people.” In Big Farms Make Big Flu, a collection of dispatches by turns harrowing and thought-provoking, Wallace tracks the ways influenza and other pathogens emerge from an agriculture controlled by multinational corporations. Wallace details, with a precise and radical wit, the latest in the science of agricultural epidemiology, while at the same time juxtaposing ghastly phenomena such as attempts at producing featherless chickens, microbial time travel, and neoliberal Ebola. Wallace also offers sensible alternatives to lethal agribusiness. Some, such as farming cooperatives, integrated pathogen management, and mixed crop-livestock systems, are already in practice off the agribusiness grid. While many books cover facets of food or outbreaks, Wallace's collection appears the first to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics and the nature of science together. Big Farms Make Big Flu integrates the political economies of disease and science to derive a new understanding of the evolution of infections. Highly capitalized agriculture may be farming pathogens as much as chickens or corn.
Riverside County Farm Bureau Monthly
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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... Annual Report
Author: New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Departmental Circular
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Annual Report of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station and the ... Annual Report of the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station ...
Author: New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Report of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, 1st-79th. 1880-1957-58) and the 1st-58th Report of the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station, 1888-1944/45
Author: New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Documents of the ... Legislature of the State of New Jersey
Author: New Jersey. Legislature
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
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Publisher:
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
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