Swine Flu Outbreak Could Be Linked to Smithfield Factory Farms »
Posted By rumple4skin 7 months, 1 week ago in NewsThere are allegations that Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork
packer and hog producer, is linked to the swine flu outbreak.
Smithfield operates massive hog-raising operations Perote, Mexico, in the state of Vera Cruz, where the outbreak originated.
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Journalists/reporters must have the right to keep their news sources confidential.
A Broadcast Doctrine law must be initiated to end foreign ownership of broadcast ...
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rumple4skin7 months, 1 week ago
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FTA - " ... The possible link to Smithfield has not been reported in the U.S. press. Searches of Google News and the websites of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal all came up empty. The link is being made in the Mexican media, however. "
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Spadecaller7 months, 1 week ago
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Interesting Rumple.
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ON the other side of the scare:
This possible pandemic is raising the hair on the backs of xenophobes as well as filling the herbalist's coffers. Mexicans who sneeze on this side of the border may be murdered on the spot. The disease is devastating hypochondriacs throughout the world and health nuts are stocking up on their herbal remedies. There is no reason to panic, because Dick Cheney insists that we will all die anyway from an al Queda nuclear attack. So what else is new? -
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rumple4skin7 months, 1 week ago
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More from Mexico
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www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090...
LA GLORIA, Mexico -- Residents in this community of 3,000 believe their town is ground zero for the swine flu epidemic, even if health officials aren't saying so.
More than 450 residents say they're suffering from respiratory problems from contamination spread by pig waste at nearby breeding farms co-owned by a U.S. company.
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