Part 2: How U.S. Taxpayers Bailed Out the Poultry Industry, and Helped Entrench Avian Flu

By sheltering producers from risk, researchers have observed that indemnity payouts can, under some circumstances, inadvertently encourage lapses in biosecurity, enabling the spread of disease. And this can potentially create a system where farms are too indemnified to fail — the risks of operating a business highly susceptible to disease are absorbed by the government. . Listen to today's episode written by Grey Moran at sentientmedia.org.

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Original Post: https://sentientmedia.org/us-taxpayers-poultry-industry-avian-flu/

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