Friday, May 1, 2009

Narco News: How The NAFTA Flu Exploded

Al Giordano wrote a disturbing article in the Narco News Bulletin, the website that reports on the Drug War and Democracy from Latin America. After reading you'll understand why the American Pork Industry is so eager to change the name of The Flu away from Swine Flu


How “The NAFTA Flu” Exploded
Smithfield Farms Fled US Environmental Laws to Open a Gigantic Pig Farm in Mexico, and All We Got Was this Lousy Swine Flu

US and Mexico authorities claim that neither knew about the “swine flu” outbreak until April 24. But after hundreds of residents of a town in Veracruz, Mexico, came down with its symptoms, the story had already hit the Mexican national press by April 5. The daily La Jornada reported:

Clouds of flies emanate from the rusty lagoons where the Carroll Ranches business tosses the fecal wastes of its pig farms, and the open-air contamination is already generating an epidemic of respiratory infections in the town of La Gloria, in the Perote Valley, according to Town Administrator Bertha Crisóstomo López.

The town has 3,000 inhabitants, hundreds of whom reported severe flu symptoms in March.

read the rest of this eye-popping article here.

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