| MARCH 2014 | WWW.usenix.oRg PAge 2To Wash It All Away
J a m e s m i c k e n sW hen I was in graduate school in Ann Arbor, I had a friend who was deeply involved with the environmentalist movement. He purchased his food from local farmers’ markets, and he com-
muted by bike instead of by car to reduce his carbon footprint, and he main-
tained a horrid compost bin that will probably be the origin of the next flu
pandemic. One day, he told me that he was going to visit a farm for a week.
I as
