Farming Human Pathogens

Wallace, Robert G.; Wallace, Deborah; Wallace, Rodrick

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-92213-3

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“…When 60% of the residents in a nearby village fell ill, the Mexican government confirmed positive tests for the virus which had by then spread around the world (Tuckman and Booth 2009). Yet rather than belabor the contested role of a particular company in spawning H1N1, Wallace (2009b) encourages attention to the deregulation allowing animal agribusinesses to expand into the Global South, taking advantage of cheap labor, cheap land, and lax oversight. Instead of talking about 'swine flu,' he suggests, we should be discussing 'NAFTA flu.…”

Section: Metabolic Rifts: Cafos and Meatpacking Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What grows from a pandemic? Toward an abolitionist agroecology

Wit

2020

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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COVID-19 has exposed racialized vulnerabilities in the dominant agrifood system and granted opportunities to build anew. In this paper, I explore a series of breakdowns, from pandemic ecologies to uncontrolled infection among meatpacking workers. Agroecology has the potential to heal manifold metabolic rifts through which these problems arise. Ecologically, it offers biodiversity-based agriculture to maintain landscape complexity and buffer viral spillovers. Socially, intentional work is needed to center racism in the original accumulations through which metabolic rifts emerge. Specifically, agroecologists can mobilize lessons from abolition, a strategy premised on dismantling exploitative systems through growing relationships and institutions that affirm life.

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Section: Metabolic Rifts: Cafos and Meatpacking Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%