[click image]I'm pretty sure that never in the history of industry have corporate interests outstripped public health interests this nakedly, with this degree of apparent complicity, the almost straightforward admissions of economic concerns overriding health concerns. I have not heard even yet that any agency bothered to physically inspect the factory farm in La Gloria, all preferring to take its assurances that everything is jake there instead. I'm sure threats were involved in accomplishing this feat. The numbers of reported cases, it has been made clear, are a mere fraction of the real numbers, whatever they are. There is no way to verify or count the actual number of deaths from this either. Since they have shown they don't want this to be perceived as a big deal, while also trying to maintain a posture of having done their duty, there is outright NO telling if even millions have already died of this... unless, perhaps, you are an investigator with top secret clearance.
It may in fact be as mild a flu as they are telling us, or it is equally credible that it is the biggest killer in history.
HOW would we know?
Unless everyone in your neighborhood was suddenly dropping dead of an atypical pneumonia, you would have no way of knowing. Period. So, if you want to keep some kind of a bead on ways to keep an eye out for your own health, maybe you should start googling for the countries that have put embargoes on pork imports. Some of them are global embargoes and some of them are against specific companies. Russia, for instance, has been inspecting the meats coming in and proscribing imports from the companies found to be shipping them pathogen-laden goods. Those are largely American companies....
Fuck.
[Desi and Brad talk about it a little in today's Green News Report, which you can hear at the bottom of my sidebar, or go here for the full load of links for today's report.]
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