PORK BAN - Be scared of Pork, be very scared.

"Swine flu" has placed a major damper on world trade despite the "World Health Organization's (WHO) assurances that the virus isn't spread by eating infected pork". Ya right! Is this frenzy justified you may ask?

Well China, the world's biggest consumer of pork, has places a ban on pork and are turning away exports of live pigs and pork products from the USA and Mexico. Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Thailand, the UAE and the Philippines has followed suite. This reaction to the swine flu by these governments, is very reminiscent of the Asian bird flu outbreak, and the severe acute respiratory syndrome acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) of a fews years back.

Swine flu or rather H1N1 is on the rise and according to the World Health Organization (WHO) announcement, 34 countries officially have reported 7,520 a total of H1N1 cases. A few days later, according to the World Health Organization's daily report, a total of 11,034 people in 41 countries worldwide have been officially diagnosed with the H1N1 virus.

But the death toll is also on the rise. In the United States there are 5,710 cases of H1N1, with 8 deaths thus far, Mexico has 3,892 cases of H1N1, with 95 deaths. Canada has 719 cases of H1N1 and Costa Rica - 20, with one death each. Japan and Spain has 259 and 111 cases of H1N1 respectively. United Kingdom and Panama 109 and 69 cases of H1N1 respectively. France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Israel, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Guatemala, New Zealand and China all have less than 50 H1N1 cases each.

However, in Cairo, tens of thousands of Coptic Christian zabaaleen (trash collectors) who raise pigs on their garbage sites, lost most of their livelihood when the government ordered some 300,000 swine to be killed because of the fears created by swine flu, H1N1 virus. These zabaleen (rubbish collectors) use pigs to recycle organic wastes and sell them for meat in order to make a living. The inhumane treatment of these pigs by the government borders on criminal when they allegedly buried the pigs alive in the desert, under quicklime and other chemicals.

Human idisyncracies  are peculiarity to humans, sometimes difficult to understand yet many find the justification for what they do, Remember "You Are What You Eat". Pigs that eat trash, rubbish and garbage are trash, rubbish and garbage. When you Pork, Guess what that makes You?

Garbage in... Garbage out... This could be restated as ... (Eat pig... Act like one, live like one, carry disease like one). Love life, stop eating pork!

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