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Swine Flu: The Guardian explores the Smithfield connection Bonnie's Sustainable Blog: All about sustainable farming

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The U.S. media is ignoring the possible factory farm link to Swine Flu. A 2008 study commissioned by the Pew Foundation underscores how factory farms are putting public health at risk by serving as a breeding ground for diseases that can afflict people as well as pigs. No one is safe when the same problems that plagued our financial system were allowed to infect our food supply as well. Rules were written to benefit the corpor
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