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How do we make democracy work for the poor?
The Meatrix is an animation based on the movie "The Matrix" that highlights critical concerns about mass produced meat. The outbreak of swine flu has been linked to agribusiness and this clip reveals that the overcrowded and brutal conditions under which animals are farmed causes diseases among the animals. This in turn leads agribusiness to add a constant dosage of antibiotics to their feed. This overuse of antibiotics breeds super strains of resistant disease-causing germs....
Saliem Fakir -
The outbreak of the new swine flu virus in Mexico has raised alarm bells and panic across the world. It is another of those incidents pointing to how precarious our world can get when it is subject to sudden knocks and risk.
Where we thought we had tamed nature, it continuously proves us wrong.
More than one risk coming at the same time multiplies the strain, shows up our vulnerabilities and stretches our ability to respond collectively.
Some would describe this as a Kafkaesque experience...
Democracy Now -
Editors Note: To date, South Africa has reported two cases of the swine flu. The World Health Organisation has warned that it is not inevitable that the outbreak of swine flu could develop into a global epidemic or pandemic and that countries should "take the opportunity to prepare." How serious is the swine flu threat? Is it as serious a threat as the media make it out to be? For more information on this question, please click here for a report filed by Al Jazeera that will take...
