Original entry here. I’ll add updates below as relevant news becomes available.
27 APR UPDATES: U.S. declares public health emergency; swine flu confirmed in Spain; global stock markets plumet due to fears of pandemic; European Union health officials warn against travel to the U.S. and Mexico.
Tip to veg/AR organizations: Pork producers are already on this, [...]
Mexico City is in the grip of an influenza epidemic that the World Health Organization says has pandemic potential. [See pandemic updates below.]
Like the bird flu virus H5N1, the deadly strain of the H1N1 virus now sickening (and killing) people in Mexico and Kansas is a virulent “mixture of swine, human and avian flu [...]
Scientists are terrorists. That’s the word from Feedstuffs, the leading weekly trade paper for U.S. agribusiness. Responding to a UN Food and Agriculture Organization report on Industrial Livestock Production and Global Health Risks, Feedstuffs published an editorial stating that “FAO claims to use scientists to generate its reports, but I wonder if those scientists don’t [...]
