dead pig decomposing in the diseased lagoon at perote

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This is not the worst of the photographic evidence of conditions at and near the huge corporate pig farm near La Gloria. You also get to see the flies about which people have been so dismissive, and dead pigs laying around and stacked and stuffed into an incinerator used to generate power and broken effluvia pipes dripping blood and feces directly into the lagoon. It's definitely a must see for doubters... and for those too young and disposed to partying with the girls in Mexico to heed.

Look at those pictures and then tell me this isn't the biggest load of crap you ever heard.

When Associated Press journalists on Monday entered a Granjas Carroll farm that has been the focus of community complaints, the cars were sprayed with water. Victor Ochoa, the general director, required the visitors to shower and don white overalls, rubber boots, goggles and masks and step through disinfectant before entering any of the 18 warehouses where 15,000 pigs are kept.

Ochoa showed the journalists a black plastic lid that covered a swimming pool-size cement container of pig feces to prevent exposure to the outside air.

"All of our pigs have been adequately vaccinated and they are all taken care of according to current sanitation rules," Ochoa said. "What happened in La Gloria was an unfortunate coincidence with a big and serious problem that is happening now with this new flu virus."

Mexican Agriculture Department inspectors found no sign of swine flu among pigs around the farm in Veracruz, and say that no infected pigs have been found yet anywhere in Mexico.

Balderdash! Mexican Agriculture Department inspectors found no sign of swine flu among pigs around the farm in Veracruz, because they did not look. Duh. Smithfield may have run to La Gloria to clean up the evidence, or the reporters are willingly letting themselves be rubes. They would have had to shower and put on all that protective gear to PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE VIRUS not protect the swine from infection. Give me a break. Go to the picture link and bask in the photographic evidence.