Who's the Swine in Swine Flu?
Apparently, the swine flu epidemic we're about to experience (or not) may be thanks to an American corporation operating a hog farm in Mexico. The re-location from the United States to the country of Montezuma's Revenge followed a hefty fine levied against the corporation by the Environmental Protection Agency.
What's ironic to me is that this country, Canada, has spent grabillions of dollars on a Public Health Agency to prepare us for the sort of pandemic we may be facing, and yet, it may well turn out that the pandemic is all thanks to our insistence on cheap meat and the dubious and healthless meat products made from it.
So, really, the money we save as consumers, we spend as citizens - while corporations, which are often treated like citizens by our governments, get away with murder. Because it's not like people living near and working at the factory farm in Mexico haven't been falling sick and dying ever since it set up operations.
