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Showing videos filed under: swine flu
Factory Farms, the Environment, and Communities
March 4, 2010Swine flu, bird flu, cancer, parasites, E. Coli...what do they all have in common? Factory farms, says investigative reporter David Kirby. In his new book, Animal Factory, he exposes the deep problems with the factory farming system and how it hurts people and the environment.Financial Reform, Animal Factory, and Student Debt
March 3, 2010Yesterday, we noted that the fangs seem to have been pulled out of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and financial reform seems to be quietly fading from the agenda. But our friends at the Roosevelt Institute are in the middle of a groundbreaking conference on market reform, and we asked a few of their guests to join us in studio.LIVE AT NOON: David Kirby: Animal Factory
March 3, 2010Swine flu, bird flu, cancer, parasites, E. Coli...what do they all have in common? Factory farms, says investigative reporter David Kirby. In his new book, Animal Factory, he exposes the deep problems with the factory farming system and how it hurts people and the environment. He joins Laura in studio at noon to talk about the book and what we can do to fix our food supply.Swine Flu and Industrial Agriculture, Organizing Against the Odds in Lebanon, and Bike Etiquette
July 28, 2009“A threat of unknown magnitude,” some have called it. The LA Times writes that it could kill hundreds over the next two years. What is it? Swine flu. How did we get here and what are the connections between industrial agriculture, global warming, and what many think could be a deadly flu epidemic? Then, LGBT organizers in Lebanon face an uphill battle. And Ralph Rollins's short film, Will I Be Next?, explores gang violence and youth in Chicago.The F Word: Novartis's New Miracle Treatment Turns Pandemic into Profit
June 16, 2009The Swiss drug company Novartis will not give free vaccines against H1N1 flu to poor countries -- it will only consider discounts. That's Novartis --makers of Exedrin and Bufferin -- I guess they're not making enough off those drugs yet. "If you want to make production sustainable, you have to create financial incentives," Novartis Chief Executive Daniel Vasella said.Weekly Pulse: Days of Swine and Poses
April 29, 2009Yesterday, Senate Republicans prioritized human life over anti-abortion grandstanding and confirmed Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services. When the world totters on the brink of a pandemic, slow-walking the future health secretary begins to look unseemly.Fighting Swine (Geithner) Flu
April 27, 2009We'll need more than a face mask to save us from a plague of killer economic policy.
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