After the announcement today that British Columbia has confirmed cases of Swine Flu, this came to me via a US community food security list serve I subscribe too. 68 people have now died in Mexico and it has spread into California, Texas, and yes, BC.
Please read below.
According to the swine flu time-line put together by a company called Veratect, who evidently map infection disease events for clients like the WHO & CDC:
"Residents [of La Gloria, Perote Municipality, Veracruz State, Mexico] 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." (1)
Granjas Carroll is a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods. According to the Smithfield Foods website, Granjas Carroll produced 950,000 hogs in fiscal 2008. (2)
So now it is possible that our Global Industrial Food System is responsible for unleashing a deadly pandemic, somehow I am not surprised nor do I think it is the first time...
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