Playing Chicken with Big Ag: Advocating Regionally Sensitive Food Sovereignty to Address Pandemic Influenza
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2014Author
Anderson, Libby
Auster, Michelle
Caster, Tessa
Charoni, Jennifer
Clinkenbeard, Peter
Fitzpatrick, Marina
Larsen, Erin
MacKenzie, Colin
Mayer, Megan
Phan, Linda
Regan, Maeve
Schroeder, Katherine
Theisen, Tarra
Yoshioka, Natsuki
Young, William
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While a focus on pandemic preparedness is important, it does not address long term solutions to outbreak. In our highly globalized world, massive inequalities shape an environment in which preparedness benefits those of the first world, while ignoring the majority of disease victims. This strategy may have regionally contained outbreaks thus far, however avian influenza has the potential to spread across the world. Thus, it is important to move beyond basic awareness methods when seeking to control the spread of diseases. By viewing disease outbreak as a symptom of a greater world problem, we come closer to addressing the causes of outbreak.
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