Peter Singer of Princeton opines that factory farming, born in the USA, is at bottom responsible for the threat of virulent avian flu viruses. The answer? Taxes on chicken.:
That wont be easy to do, but we could make a start by imposing a tax on factory-farm products until enough revenue is raised to pay for the precautions that governments now have to take against avian influenza. Then we might finally see that chicken from the factory farm really isnt so cheap after all.