Despite the rants (and the campaign by factory farming groups) that it has nothing to do with pigs, there is at least reasonable evidence that it does have to do with pigs. So Swine Flue it is.

A comment to this effect from Michael Pollan: “Last year, eighteen months ago, the Pew Commission on animal agriculture released a report calling attention to the public health risks of the way we’re raising pork and other meat in this country. And they actually predicted in that report—they said the way you’re raising pigs in America today creates a perfect environment for the generation of new flu pandemics, basically because once you get that mutation, which sooner or later is about to happen, it very quickly—you have … so much genetic material coming together, so concentrated, and then so many pigs can catch it, and … we’ve created these Petri dishes for new diseases. And here we go.” (courtesy of alternet

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