SWINE FARMING

SWINE FARMING

"Swine flu" is the most recent animal epidemic of global proportion to hit the world, but this is certainly not the first time. "Swine flu" is quite common in pigs from South America to Canada as well as greater Europe including the United Kingdom. Isolated cases of "Swine Flu" were experienced in Africa, specifically Kenya, but was also prevalent in parts of eastern Asia as well as Japan. However, the current outbreak of "Swine Flu" of 2009 is not what it seems, it appears to be a new unknown strain, now identified as a subtype of the virus called H1N1.

Pigs has been dying in hoards, (see Pictures of Pigs) but to a much lesser degree than cows did, with the advent of the Mad-Cow epidemic. But it has created much louder alarm bells though, due to the fact that its an unknown strain which does affects humans. Some say, birds carried the flu from Mexico to Europe but that's just pure speculation. Its more likely aeroplanes and people are responsible for its spread. But, its just highly peculiar, almost a miracle that each and everyone onboard the planes sitting alongside those H1N1 infected passenger did not contract it. Weird! Really Weird!

Even at the time when bird flu was an issue, it didn't spread as rapidly as swine flu did, yet birds were migrating constantly. And nobody blamed bird flu on pigs that fly. However, there is a lot more to "Swine Flu" than meets the eye. Swine flesh, pork and gammon has been eaten by folks since prior to the reconquest in Spain, when pork was used to flush out Jews and Muslims when used on them as a mechanism for forced conversions to Christianity.

Biblical Pork

Having said that, we are told very emphatically in the Old testament 'Thou shalt not eat the animal with the cloven hoof that does not chew the cud" and it doesn't take a lot of imagination to earmark that dirty pink roll of fat with the curly tail and the round snout as the culprit. This was a biblical injunction specifically aimed at the Jews, thus as a whole, Jews do not consume pork, but there are numerous exceptions. Muslims mimic the Jews in their dietary customs by also staying away from eating oink. However, Muslims have specific views on the purpose of the oink, namely that their collective mission in life is to eat the faeces of humans since they do eat there own faeces and that of one another. The saying "As happy as a pig in Shit" becomes very evident by the aforementioned and also by just watching them at play.

Prior to the days of flush toilets, most families kept pigs for pets in pens, Muslims and Jews included, into which the faeces-bin release hatch of the outside toilet opened. Bins were used as catchment for faeces which were overturned weekly for the pigs to frolic in, until completely covered in the stuff, but that was also their stable food-source. Hence the saying "As dirty as a pig". Pigs were the cleaners then, and whatever they found that smelt bad, consumed it, but it was become the breakfast of today. Looking at the the germs in faeces one would conclude that these blighters have anvil-steel immune systems. E-coli, salmonella, and other vile bacteria in faeces are deadly, yet it has had absolutely no effect on pigs, but according to science they contracted the new strain of virus called H1N1. What gives?

I theorise that the farmers who's pigs contracted this N1H1 virus must have disinfected them so, as to kill their natural bacteria and thereby compromise their immune systems making them victims to the deadly virus. Alternatively the farmers fed them some obscure animal protein as part of their feed that upset their apple cart. When the cows were fed proteins from carcases of other dead cows and sheep, their brains became spongy and perforated...virtually moth eaten and died. Virtually every cow that was suspected of contamination was slaughtered and buried or burnt.

Will they do the same with the pigs? They say if its flesh is well cooked the virus cant affect humans. Ye, right! Dogs are naturally carnivores, meat eaters but most of them live on an unnatural diet of dog chunks made from wheat husk, fish-meal (fish protein) soy, colourants and flavorants, which they naturally would never have consumed. Then there are chickens that eat fish-meal... proteins (fish protein) from another animal species that it would not normally or naturally consume. Just think how happy a sheep would be with a juicy steak or how happy a lion would be with a bucket of mixed vegetables as there staple diets?

There seems to be a pattern! Have a look at pictures of pigs above.

Pigs for sale.

Beware of "Swine Flu" this winter, wash your hands after shaking hands with other, get the hell out of the way when someone sneezes, abstain from eating swine, if fact its more beneficial for you to give it up completely, if you love life and your health or at least value it. Keep your influenza medication at hand. But, also ponder on who the deluded Smuck is, who granted permission or started the craze for to humans to eat swine in the first place?

Love Life, stop eating pork.

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