Wallace, Big farms make big flu

In a kind of bioe­co­no­mic war­fare, agri­bu­si­ness can pros­per when dead­ly influen­za strains ori­gi­na­ting from their own ope­ra­tions spread out to their smal­ler com­pe­ti­tion.
No conspi­ra­cy theo­ry need apply. No virus engi­nee­red in a labo­ra­to­ry. No conscious acts of espio­nage or sabo­tage. Rather we have here an emergent neglect from the moral hazard that arises when the costs of inten­sive hus­ban­dry are exter­na­li­zed.