What is Salmonella? How did it get into 550 Million eggs and make 2000 people sick?

 http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/08/salmonella_what_it_actually_is_and_how_you_can_avoid_getting_sick.php?campaign=daily_nl

Click on the link above to read a short article from the Tree Hugger blog about how large and poorly managed factory style farms can cause diseases like salmonella to spread very quickly.

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Welcome to Environmental Science

The one and only Earth

This course will integrate Earth science, physics, biology, chemistry, economics and political science to give students an overview of how the Earth's systems support life and how human activity affects those systems. We will also explore issues concerning who gets to decide how human activity will affect the environment and other people.