H1N1, globalization and industrial farming

A series of articles in a recent issue of Third World Resurgence discusses the H1N1 pandemic and the globalization of industrial livestock farming.  The provocative article titles include:

• "H1N1 and the Great Swine Cover-Up" - about Mexico's corporate factory farms;
• "A Food System that Kills" - about the global meat industry's role in the spread of disease;
• "The Hog Industry Strikes Back" - about the power of pork producers to evade responsibility;
• "Poor Countries Worry about Flu Vaccine Shortage" - about developing countries being left behind in the race to get scarce vaccines;
• "The Global Response to Swine Flu: the Brighter Side of Globalisation or Just Reinforcing Inequalities?" - about the North-South divide and the difficulties of tacking a global pandemic in a divided world.

The David Lubin Memorial Library has access to both electronic and print versions of Third World Resurgence.