Big Farms Make Big Flu Dispatches on Influenza Agribusiness and the Nature of Science 1st Edition by Rob Wallace 9781583675892 1583675892

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ISBN 10: 1583675892

ISBN 13: 9781583675892

Author: Rob Wallace

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.

Table of contents:

PART ONE
CHAPTER 1 The Great Bird Flu Blame Game
CHAPTER 2 The NAFTA Flu
CHAPTER 3 The Hog Industry Strikes Back
CHAPTER 4 The Political Virology of Offshore Farming
CHAPTER 5 Do Pathogens Time Travel?

PART TWO
CHAPTER 6 We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague
CHAPTER 7 Influenza’s Historical Present
CHAPTER 8 Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
CHAPTER 9 Virus Dumping
CHAPTER 10 That’s the Thicke

PART THREE
CHAPTER 11 Alien vs. Predator
CHAPTER 12 The Scientific American
CHAPTER 13 The Axis of Viral
CHAPTER 14 Are Our Microbiomes Racial?
CHAPTER 15 The X-Men

PART FOUR
CHAPTER 16 Two Gentlemen of Verona
CHAPTER 17 Food and Pharm WikiLeaks
CHAPTER 18 Synchronize Your Barns
CHAPTER 19 The Dirty Dozen
CHAPTER 20 The Red Swan
CHAPTER 21 Social Meadicine

PART FIVE
CHAPTER 22 Pale Mushy Wing
CHAPTER 23 Whose Food Footprint?
CHAPTER 24 A Probiotic Ecology
CHAPTER 25 Strange Cotton
CHAPTER 26 Cave/Man

PART SIX
CHAPTER 27 The Virus and the Virus
CHAPTER 28 Coffee Filter
CHAPTER 29 Homeland
CHAPTER 30 Disease’s Circuits of Capital
CHAPTER 31 Flu the Farmer
CHAPTER 32 Protecting H3N2v’s Privacy
CHAPTER 33 Distress of Columbia

PART SEVEN
CHAPTER 34 Did Neoliberalizing West African Forests Produce a New Niche for Ebola?
CHAPTER 35 Collateralized Farmers
CHAPTER 36 Mickey the Measles
CHAPTER 37 Made in Minnesota
CHAPTER 38 Missed Anthropy

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