Mad Cow Disease

A good way to reduce the flows of negative impacts that diseases have on people, food, and manufactured goods is to grow food locally. Have farmers’ markets set up in communities. We now have major stores which sell GMO’s and Monsanto products like corn which cause more public harm than good. Allow farmers to grow their own organic produce and let them sell independently or to big market corporations to help increase the economy and reduce the risk of receiving imported products that are not even properly inspected. Globalism is more about, money and profit comes first then peoples safety relating to health comes second. Like for example, Mad Cow disease was spread throughout many countries in Europe because the meat that came from infected cows was not being properly inspected. Animals are not even treated equally to begin with, a sick cow can be costly to a company if it needs to be cured or inspected. To save a profit, procedures to inspect animals for diseases is put off in some cases causing outbreaks of diseases in different countries. Poor countries don’t educate the public regarding to the spread of diseases through food products or contaminated meat. Creating awareness and educating people on nutrition and how products are manufactured then exported could help people to realize how easy diseases could travel and be passed down through …show more content…
“Increased global travel makes it easier for pathogens to spread quickly around the world, the increased transit of goods also creates new opportunities for the transmission of disease.” (Health and Globalization). “Many developing countries do not have the same sanitary safeguards as developed countries which raises the population for the transmission of good infected with pathogenic microorganisms into more developed states.” (Health and