If there were a lot of people sick in the town near the very large Smithfield farm in Mexico it would be very logical to start the investigation there, especially before the company gets there to cover things up and hide the conditions on the farm. The locals claim that things were not right at the farm. I am sure the locals have a pretty good idea what is going on. I am also sure the farm has the local government officials in their back pocket, so it is likely we will never know whether Smithfield was to blame or not.

However, that does not take away from the fact that there is a good chance that it was U.S. business that was partly if not entirely to the blame.

Kind of makes all these racist slurs toward the Mexicans that much more BS. Typical of Americans to blame everyone else, but themselves and to have no idea to what they are doing to the rest of the world in the name of money.

Lord, I hope they don’t light one up over Fortuna Ca. again…. oh wait a minute, …they can’t even shut down the southern border, even as an exercise, never mind if the small arms being shipped south are nothing compared to the large arms and personnel being shipped north…oh wait…we can shut down our virtual fence…. Come on now! Do we want the Chinese to be the only ones with a “fence” that can be viewed from space? I mean you have to draw a line somewhere don’t you? Think of all those tourist dollars we’d get.

I think the best thing to do is give free health care to all those poor people in Mexico and on down to the southern tip of Argentina…then they will not need to crowd the ER capacity in the USA. (oh now hold on there Teak)

BO thinks “the horse has left the barn”? Why then did they leave his horses ass behind? Hey BO… didn’t you say UBL is toast? You get that from Brennan?

I wonder, if the pig won’t talk and say where this Swine flu came from, is it legal to make chops out of him?

CNN’s Dr. Gupta Tracking Swine Flu Patient Zero in Mexico -Focus on a young Mexican boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne9XxKDjBa4

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Thanks again for this site, Larry. You allow us to question, evaluate and question again. I so appreciate it.

C’mon, We the People. Do your homework and put America in the smart column again.

The conditions of factory farming, however, are so disgusting that I think throwing some public exposure on them is a good thing. CEO Pope’s (I liked the reporter’s slip, calling him Poop before correcting herself) points were logical and valid, but his clinical terminology disgusts me: “discard those animals.” The description of the blood testing and the hint at drug usage sickens me. It is NOT the way animals were supposed to live.

Pigs are so intelligent and animals do feel.

If most people had to be familiar with the way the meat they purchase all packaged so nicely and arranged in grocery cases got there from animal to store, they might do as I did and go vegetarian–trying to work my way to vegan.

Every time someone tells me that he/she found a cheap cut of meat, I always answer that it’s not cheap for the animal it came from.