Big Ag’s Nightmare Trifecta: Screwworm, NEPA Virus, and Antibiotics Gone Wild | Rising Anxieties

Mariann Sullivan dives into the animal agriculture industry’s mounting concerns, from suspicious attacks on farmer advocacy groups to the triple threat of disease outbreaks threatening farmed animals nationwide. This episode explores how Big Ag’s propaganda machine works overtime to discredit genuine farmer coalitions while simultaneously battling an unprecedented rise in health crises that their own practices help perpetuate.

This episode explores:

• How the industry attempts to discredit Farm Action, a genuine farmer advocacy group, simply because it supports animal welfare measures like Prop 12
• The panic spreading through Texas as New World Screwworm flies threaten to cross the border, prompting a $750 million taxpayer-funded response
• Why a 16% jump in farm animal antibiotic use signals a dangerous backslide that contributes to 35,000 human deaths annually
• The emergence of Nipah virus in India that poses a devastating threat to human health
• Worrying about the effect on workers forced to “depopulate” millions of birds during avian flu outbreaks who they would otherwise be raising for slaughter

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