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Centralized industry also makes it much easier to enforce regulations which control disease, and it justifies expensive research on things like pest and researc
by jonfw 6y ago
Centralized industry also makes it much easier to enforce regulations which control disease, and it justifies expensive research on things like pest and research prevention that wouldn't be economically feasible to generate returns on at smaller scales.
Here's a good question- do you think that food-born illness is more or less common in countries that have more centralized their food production?
- FooHentai 6y ago>do you think that food-born illness is more or less common in countries that have more centralized their food production? Tricky one to answer, since each country has a lot of counfounding factors (e.g. Use of pathogen-bearing 'night soil' as fertilizer, availability of refrigeration in warm and humid climates, potable water availability). Best measure IMO would be each country taken individually pre- and post-centralization of agriculture. What those figures seem to show (taking primarily the CDC figures for USA) is less frequent outbreaks, but greater spread when they occur, overall the number of impacted individuals looks similar if not slightly lower. This makes sense - centralized production and wide distribution means a single instance of contamination, though much lower in likelihood to occur, will reach out and touch more people than it otherwise would have when it occurs.