(FRD Blog) Table Scraps: An article you should write...(on bird-flu)

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Table Scraps is a blog maintained by Bailey Norwood, one of the editors of Food & Resource Dialogues. It's purpose is to explore what is happening in the world of agriculture, food and resources; to discover topics that would make interesting FRD articles; to help readers understand different perspectives on controversial topics—including why intelligent people form different opinions; and to experiment with different ways of applying economics to contemporary topics.

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Monday, June 25, 2012

An article you should write...(on bird-flu)

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article* on the deadly potential of bird-flu. I would like to read an article describing the extent to which confined feeding operations prevent the spread of the disease (I would think considerably), compared to the case where most of today's broilers are given considerable outdoor access (which would probably be impossible to do).

*Naik, Gautam. June 22, 2012. "New Bird-Flu Study Shows Virus's Pandemic Potential." The Wall Street Journal.