The Science of Deliciously Good Health

There’s an oinking great article in the Indypendent about fast food fanaticism, our addiction to the highly manipulated tastes of manufactured foods, and the appalling environmental effects of factory farming – “While bacon’s harmful effects were once limited to individual consumers, its production in vast porcine cities has become an environmental disaster. The system of industrialized hog (and beef and poultry) farming that has developed over the last 40 years turns out to be ideal for breeding novel strains of deadly pathogens, such as the current pandemic of swine flu. If a new killer virus appears, like the Spanish flu that killed tens of millions after World War I, factory farms will have played a central role in its genesis.”

Click here to read the full article in the Indypendent.

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