A Recipe For Disaster: Industrial Agriculture, Swine Flu, and Global Warming

“A threat of unknown magnitude,” some have called it. The LA Times writes that it could kill hundreds over the next two years. What is it? Swine flu. How did we get here and what are the connections between industrial agriculture, global warming, and what many think could be a deadly flu epidemic?

Arun Gupta, an editor at the Indypendent and the author most recently of Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist at the Natural Resource Defense Council’s Global Warming and Health Project, and Michael Greger, Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States and author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching discuss the looming threats of avian and swine flu, global warming, and what we can do to change our system of industrial agriculture. You can find the NRDC’s new report on Dengue Fever here.