Big Farmer
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 792 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Rob Wallace
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1583675906
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.
Author : James Cloyd Bowman
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Page : 504 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1918
Category : American essays
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Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 1816
Category : Agriculture
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"A leading agricultural magazine founded by the Union Agricultural Society of Chicago and a champion of farmers' rights ... Besides articles on agriculture, horticulture, and stock raising, it provided general and market news, a children's column, and departments dealing with health, household problems, and veterinary medicine." Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
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Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
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Author : Paul W. Gates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315496631
Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume examines the aspects and problems of land policies and the growth in farming during the mid-1800s.
Author : American Society of Agricultural Engineers
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Page : 662 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Agricultural engineering
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Page : 458 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Cattle
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
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Page : 1860 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
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