Opinion: California bird flu outbreak spotlights the risky ways we produce food

As a physician, I am closely following a bird flu outbreak that is hitting our Central Valley dairy farms hard, especially since the California Department of Health reports at least 26 human cases. This number seems to increase each week in our state, which has more dairy cows than any other. Bird flu has spread to at least 294 dairy herds in California.

As a board-certified doctor in internal and lifestyle medicines, I support the health department’s efforts to monitor and test for bird flu...