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John will be with us talking about DD213 Environment & society. He’ll talk about how research on factory farms and food borne disease, in particular mega-poultry farms in the UK, has been tra...nslated into a teaching format. The focus of the research was the clash between, on the one hand, the affordability of industrially-produced chicken and, on the other hand, food safety, biosecurity and pathogenic risk. Affordability, it seems, comes at a price, and that price is food-borne diseases like Campylobacter: the main cause of food poisoning in the UK, leading to over 20,000 hospitalisations every year and even death in some instances. Churning out a highly perishable product on an industrial scale, it turns out, provides the prime conditions for disease to thrive in ways that pose pathogenic threats to consumers.
John will be with us talking about DD213 Environment & society. He’ll talk about how research on factory farms and food borne disease, in particular mega-poultry farms in the UK, has been tra...nslated into a teaching format. The focus of the research was the clash between, on the one hand, the affordability of industrially-produced chicken and, on the other hand, food safety, biosecurity and pathogenic risk. Affordability, it seems, comes at a price, and that price is food-borne diseases like Campylobacter: the main cause of food poisoning in the UK, leading to over 20,000 hospitalisations every year and even death in some instances. Churning out a highly perishable product on an industrial scale, it turns out, provides the prime conditions for disease to thrive in ways that pose pathogenic threats to consumers.
