Monthly Review | From Rob Wallace's "Dead Epidemiologists," to epidemiology for the people
In a recent review of Rob Wallace’ latest work, Dead Epidemiologists, we are reminded that “If the virus has a source it is not Yunnan but the boardrooms of giant corporations.” The review takes the time to name the culprits: “the retail corporations whose main aim is to drive profits up by getting cheap food on the shelf, paying less and less to producers; the “cafos” ( concentrated animal feeding operations) who now dominate livestock rearing in the USA and South America, and which have virtually wiped out the mixed farming family farm in the American mid-west; the investment...