1.0 link 191408 <![CDATA[Swine Flu Outbreak -- Nature Biting Back at Industrial Animal Production?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/swine-flu-outbreak----nat_b_191408.html Officials from the CDC and USDA will likely arrive in Mexico soon to help investigate the deadly new influenza virus that managed to jump from pigs to people in a previously unseen mutated form that can readily spread among humans.

One of the first things they will want to look at are the hundreds of industrial-scale hog facilities that have sprung up around Mexico in recent years, and the thousands of people employed inside the crowded, pathogen-filled confinement buildings and...

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