date:Apr 18, 2016
ople ask what is happening on factory farms, why so many animals are sick, what drugs they are taking and why we should eat products from such sick animals. News reports instead focused on farmers' financial losses, price increases in the products and farmers' needs to restock.
At least one tenth of U.S. pigs died in 2013 and 2014 from PEDv, though Big Food assures food consumers the disease is unlikely to jump species and infect people. Almost 50 million flu-stricken chickens and turkeys died