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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:42 PM
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Now that eyes are turning to Factory Pork Farms, watch the Swine Flu story die....
I mean it was all good fun while the Swine Flu boosted ratings, fanned the flames of the immigration debate and changed the national topic of the week away from the Torture Memos.

But the Factory Pork Farms have enormous political clout and it's getting harder and harder to dismiss the obvious connections between intensive animal husbandry and increasing flu mutations - to say nothing about the inconvenience of having Patient 0 live right next to a US imported factory pig farm.

So, as we wave farewell to the Swine H1N1 Flu scare, we await breathlessly the next distraction that will blow this story from the headlines.
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:44 PM
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1. We don't dare draw the obvious links to the industrialization of meat!
n/t
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:45 PM
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2. Now that people aren't dropping dead all over....
Hopefully there will be some changes from this. Being able to call in sick at work, public health funding, factory farm monitoring.

Bright shiny object.....over there>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:46 PM
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3. A young blond girl missing or
a shark attack.

Those are pretty standard distractions that keep the talking heads chattering constantly ..................
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:49 PM
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5. they trotted blondie out last week
another beach, another blonde, another distraction. yadda yadda snore.
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:47 PM
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4. That pretty much sez it all.
nt
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:50 PM
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6. The media is gonna drop it like a lead stone. How dare we go after an
industry that basically dumps its crap literally in Mexico and contributes to a never before seen flu.
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bushmeister0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:53 PM
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7. Flu season is almost over. Wait until this thing comes back in the Autumn
with a vengeance, like the Spanish flu did. By then they'll have a new name for it. "Obama's flu" or something more appropriate.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 02:10 PM
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9. Unlike the Spanish flu, when this one comes back we will have a
vaccine ready for it. It could still be bad, but nothing like 1918.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 02:09 PM
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8. Ah, but so long as new cases are appearing, it cannot easily die down.
The flu looks to not be too deadly, but it will take some time to determine that and to convince people of that. More likely, the MSM will try to minimize the pork-factory-farm link.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 04:57 PM
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10. You may be right. Here's a Fair and Balanced report from CNN....
Edited on Fri May-01-09 04:57 PM by Junkdrawer
The source of the reports? 100% from Pork Industry spokepersons...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30507287
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 04:58 PM
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11. The pork lobby
is serving the best in cuts about now.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-02-09 06:09 AM
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12. Redefining Pork Barrel Politics...n/t
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