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Walters, Mark Jerome. Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Sept. 2003. 212p. index. Island/Shearwater, $22 (1-55963-992-X). 614.4.
In sharp, readable accounts of six recent "plagues," Walters points at the 1,000-pound gorilla customarily ignored in modern epidemiological discussions: underlying ecological causes. Those include industrial agriculture, with its pursuit of money rather than wholesome food; industrial forestry, with its pursuit of money rather than biosystem integrity; and industrial pharmacology, with its pursuit of money rather than human, animal, and plant health. Meat animals were made cannibals to increase output, and mad cow disease erupted. African forests were virtually strip-mined; bush-meat (wild animals) became ...
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