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Treating-People-Like-Swine Flu

May 2nd, 2009

I don’t know about you, but I was not at all shocked to learn that the CDC was investigating large-scale factory-farming pig feedlots in Mexico as the probable “ground zero” of the new H1N1 type A influenza mutation.  Feedlots belonging to US agribusinesses, mind you.

According to David Kirby in the Huffington Post last week,

One of the first things they [the CDC] will want to look at are the hundreds of industrial-scale hog facilities that have sprung up around Mexico in recent years, and the thousands of people employed inside the crowded, pathogen-filled confinement buildings and processing plants.

“Swine Flu: Will Factory Farms Kill Millions?”

I’m not shocked, but I’m disgusted. Move the feedlots to Mexico where you can crowd people and animals in together in unsanitary conditions; let’s destroy the immune system of the world while we destroy the environment and the economy.  Oh don’t get me started.  Go read The Omnivore’s Dilemma.  Buy local organic food.

As for me, I’m in bed for the last two days.  My glands are painfully swollen, I have body aches and chills, I’m sneezing and coughing.  I don’t have a fever or any respiratory distress, and my family members are taking good care of me, so don’t call 911.  I don’t think I have swine flu but I feel awful so please forgive me if I’m behind on posting.

– Megan

Three pigs image courtesy of Eric Moeller.

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