We love factory food.

Factory farming is bad.  The new movie Contagion, based on the book Viral Storm, dramatises the kind of risk we nurture with intensive farming techniques.  The kind of techniques that deliver the variety and volume of food at such low prices that we demand.

From The Ecologist: Viral storm: why factory farming is bad for your health

“modern life has made us more vulnerable, not less, to the threat of a global pandemic”