This op-ed argues that to fight avian flu and other animal-borne illnesses, we need to overhaul our food system.
The new year began with the first human death in the US from H5N1, also known as avian or bird flu. More than 60 people across the country, mostly workers at dairy or chicken factory farm s, have been infected. While most cases were mild, experts warn that it wouldn’t take much for the virus to mutate and spread quickly among humans. Among animals being raised for food, the outbreak is already massive. Millions of chickens, turkeys, and cows on hundreds of farms have gotten sick.
A handful of ag megacorporations have so much power that they control most of what ends up on grocery store shelves, leaving people with fewer real choices and pushing independent farmers out of business. But their power is fragile. When we challenge their exploitative business model that relies on harming both people and the planet, their system starts to crack.
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