Uncertain hog futures: life, death, and arbitrage on the factory farm

RT @jan_dutkiewicz: When this happened with pigs and PEDv in 2013-14, the pork industry turned one of the deadliest pig viruses in history…

RT @jan_dutkiewicz: When this happened with pigs and PEDv in 2013-14, the pork industry turned one of the deadliest pig viruses in history…

RT @jan_dutkiewicz: When this happened with pigs and PEDv in 2013-14, the pork industry turned one of the deadliest pig viruses in history…

When this happened with pigs and PEDv in 2013-14, the pork industry turned one of the deadliest pig viruses in history into one of its most profitable years in history. https://t.co/qcsBhoH3nr

Most people don’t even know there was a PEDv outbreak because it didn’t affect people’s health and only slightly and temporarily bumped meat prices. https://t.co/qcsBhoGvxT

RT @jan_dutkiewicz: As for the animals, population management is always strictly a business decision, and can lead to perverse sources of p…

RT @jan_dutkiewicz: As for the animals, population management is always strictly a business decision, and can lead to perverse sources of p…

As for the animals, population management is always strictly a business decision, and can lead to perverse sources of profitability, such as a (porcine) coronavirus: https://t.co/qcsBhoGvxT

Please tell me this is a WSB dude! But seriously, even as ag becomes ever-more financialized, there remains a tension between the real-life stuff of food and the merchant’s capital of financial markets. I wrote about this in the context of hog disease: htt

RT @alexmotya: @BOAR_ERC Also makes me think of @jan_dutkiewicz excellent analysis of capitalist intensification through disease in the US.…

I wrote about when this happened with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) in the USA. ASF is this on an exponentially larger scale: https://t.co/qcsBhoGvxT

Disease is endemic to the factory farming model of animal production. Whether it's ASF, PEDv, PPRS, or any of a number of other bugs, the vector of transmission is the value chain itself. To learn more read Alex Blanchette https://t.co/YKPrkcDDNr or me htt

RT @JCultEcon: NEW @jan_dutkiewicz Uncertain hog futures: life, death, and arbitrage on the factory farm https://t.co/yJ65x9kcSd

RT @JCultEcon: NEW @jan_dutkiewicz Uncertain hog futures: life, death, and arbitrage on the factory farm https://t.co/yJ65x9kcSd

NEW @jan_dutkiewicz Uncertain hog futures: life, death, and arbitrage on the factory farm https://t.co/yJ65x9kcSd

RT @jan_dutkiewicz: My article on how finance capital determines the value of life and death on factory farms is out now in @JCultEcon. ht…

RT @jan_dutkiewicz: My article on how finance capital determines the value of life and death on factory farms is out now in @JCultEcon. ht…

My article on how finance capital determines the value of life and death on factory farms is out now in @JCultEcon. https://t.co/kQUMsOl6NP