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One person can make a difference.
I have been following a fascinating series of events in a true story about a lawyer, a university and a book.
In a nutshell, Washington State University in Pullman, WA canceled a program requiring all freshman to read Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
“Earlier this month, the university announced that it was canceling a program requiring all incoming freshmen to read Mr. Pollan’s book, which links the agriculture industry to obesity, food poisoning and environmental damage.” -The New York Times, May 28, 2009
Administrators said one thing about why they canceled the program-but students and faculty said another. An interesting aspect of the story is that “…others said the book was dropped because it attacks one of the university’s bases, Big Agriculture…”
The question is whether or not WSU dropped the program for political reasons or financial reasons.
Read more about the story in the New York Times article, linked above, or by looking at the Marler Blog where I learned the most about this issue because the man writing about it is the lawyer who offered to pay the difference to his alma mater for the program that would otherwise have been cut:
“Meanwhile, Mr. Marler posted a message on his blog about the episode, offering to underwrite the program’s cost: ‘I have my checkbook ready.’” (NYTimes)
Why I care is because The Omnivore’s Dilemma is a powerful, well-documented/researched educational tool for anyone who has the slightest interest in food, politics and agribusiness. Pollan discusses, researches, travels and uncovers truths behind the otherwise little-known world of agribusiness and how it relates to the food on our plate.
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More human-to-pig flu transmission seen likely.
More cases of humans transmitting the Swine Flu story H1N1 Flu strain to pigs are likely to occur, but will not be a major concern as swine are not severely affected by the virus, the World Organization for Animal Health said Wednesday.
Canadian health officials said on May 2 a herd of swine in the western province of Alberta had caught the virus from a carpenter who had traveled to Mexico, the epicenter of the swine flu story H1N1 flu outbreak that has spread to 46 countries.
It is the only reported case of the virus being transmitted from a human to a pig in the world. “We would not be surprised if we have other cases like this in other countries,” OIE Director General Bernard Vallat told a news conference at the organization’s general assembly in Paris.
“But it is not a problem because we know pigs are not a big player in the epidemiological spread of the disease.”
The new swine flu story H1N1 virus has so far infected nearly 13,000 people and killed 92 around the globe, according to the World Health Organization.
Vallat reiterated flu viruses easily circulate between species, especially when strains are mixed. The new swine flu story H1N1 virus, popularly known as “swine flu,” has human, bird as well as pig origins.
The OIE, an intergovernmental organization of 174 member states, has often stressed there was no proof so far of transmission from pig to human. It was among the biggest opponents against the strain being called “swine flu.”
The World Health Organization has also ruled out any risk of infection from consuming pork, saying the swine flu story.H1N1 flu had not been shown to be transmissible to people through eating properly handled and prepared pork, or other products derived from pigs.
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