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The outbreak of a new flu strain has infected 1,000 people in Mexico and the U.S., killing 68. The World Health Organization warned Saturday that the outbreak could reach global pandemic levels.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork packer and hog producer, operates massive hog-raising operations Perote, Mexico, in the state of Vera Cruz, where the outbreak originated. The operations, grouped under a Smithfield subsidiary called Granjas Carroll, raise 950,000 hogs per year.
Residents [of Perote] believed the outbreak had been caused by contamination from pig breeding farms located in the area. They believed that the farms, operated by Granjas Carroll, polluted the atmosphere and local water bodies, which in turn led to the disease outbreak. According to residents, the company denied responsibility for the outbreak and attributed the cases to “flu.” However, a municipal health official stated that preliminary investigations indicated that the disease vector was a type of fly that reproduces in pig waste and that the outbreak was linked to the pig farms. It was unclear whether health officials had identified a suspected pathogen responsible for this outbreak.
IRONY - Smithfield Foods, (http://investors.smithfieldfoods.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-08-141434 operates this mega-plant in Mexico because of cheap labor and to avoid further prosecutions and convictions of multiple violations of environmental laws in the U.S. (toxic dumping, pollution of earth, air and water, etc.). Read their violations at: http://farmsanctuary.org/mediacenter/assets/reports/smithfield3.pdf
So, now we have a pandemic threat caused by corporate greed, hypocrisy, corruption so.......................................THANK YOU, NAFTA
The outbreak of a new flu strain has infected 1,000 people in Mexico and the U.S., killing 68. The World Health Organization warned Saturday that the outbreak could reach global pandemic levels.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork packer and hog producer, operates massive hog-raising operations Perote, Mexico, in the state of Vera Cruz, where the outbreak originated. The operations, grouped under a Smithfield subsidiary called Granjas Carroll, raise 950,000 hogs per year.
Residents [of Perote] believed the outbreak had been caused by contamination from pig breeding farms located in the area. They believed that the farms, operated by Granjas Carroll, polluted the atmosphere and local water bodies, which in turn led to the disease outbreak. According to residents, the company denied responsibility for the outbreak and attributed the cases to “flu.” However, a municipal health official stated that preliminary investigations indicated that the disease vector was a type of fly that reproduces in pig waste and that the outbreak was linked to the pig farms. It was unclear whether health officials had identified a suspected pathogen responsible for this outbreak.
IRONY - Smithfield Foods, (http://investors.smithfieldfoods.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-08-141434 operates this mega-plant in Mexico because of cheap labor and to avoid further prosecutions and convictions of multiple violations of environmental laws in the U.S. (toxic dumping, pollution of earth, air and water, etc.). Read their violations at: http://farmsanctuary.org/mediacenter/assets/reports/smithfield3.pdf
So, now we have a pandemic threat caused by corporate greed, hypocrisy, corruption so.......................................THANK YOU, NAFTA
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