Viral Storm

Viral storm: why factory farming is bad for your health

Matilda Lee

| 28th October 2011

As the new 'outbreak' film Contagion, starring Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow is released, The Ecologist reports on the book linking the threat of global disease pandemics and industrial animal farming

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