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Swine Flu Roundup
Once again, apologies for the lengthy intermission between posts here at Stuffed and Starved. I’ve been working my next book, which has taken a little more time and travel than I’d have liked. But the results will, I think, be worth it. My most recent research trip involved going to visit the Zapatistas in Chiapas, which means that your intrepid writer has recently returned from Mexico. There are many stories to share, and if you’re in New York, you can hear me talking about it on WBAI tomorrow morning, or at the Brooklyn Food Conference on Saturday.
If you’re not, here’s the roundup of articles that nicely pull the different strands of what’s happening together. If you want the short digest, Laura Carlsen has a fine piece up here.
In her piece, Laura refers to Mike Davis who, with characteristic vim, has pointed out how one of the first casualties of swine flu was the World Health Organization. The global reach of the meat industry has throttled the effectiveness of one of the better international governmental organisations.
Meantime, in Mexico, a few papers are starting to follow the story of where this all started. That story involves a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation in Veracruz, run by a subsidiary of Smithfield. The Guardian has an interview with the child who may be H1N1’s
Patient Zero.
So how did a Smithfield meat factory end up in Mexico? Well, that gets us back to the bigger picture. The short answer is “NAFTA”. The longer answer is here.
Some folk point out that the reaction to just over a couple of hundred deaths is disproportionate, when one child dies of malnutrition every five seconds and the more people die of hunger in three minutes than have so far died of swine flu. Which is certainly true.
But that rather misses the point. The drum beat of deaths by starvation, and the shriek of deaths by swine flu, are part of the same score – they’re both signs of the industrial food system’s power. Yes, individual corporations are profiting from creating animal-rearing conditions that are, in every way, unconscionable. Avian influenza, bird flu, was tied to the chicken processing plants of the Asian multinational CP chicken, but precious few lessons were learned from that disaster. That’s largely because the corporations that would suffer the consequences of regulation have crept into the agencies that were tasked to rein them in.
Meanwhile, those who are casualties of the economics that allow these corporations to flourish, those who are displaced from their land in the name of efficiency (and the pork plant in Veracruz that slaughtered 950,000 head of swine a year was a model of efficiency by its own standards) are the ones who suffer the most.
Who is it that’s dying in Mexico City? It’s the poorest, in the worst shanty towns. Who is it that dies from hunger? The poorest, in the worst rural areas. The similarity points to the bankruptcy of the food system. And the long term solution to hunger will also be the long term solution to the kinds of horrors that the food system has once again generated.
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Mexican authorities have closed schools and public buildings in the capital in a bid to contain a new flu virus suspected of killing up to 60 people.
Public events were suspended and residents donned face masks as concern grew over the outbreak.
Health experts say tests so far seem to link it with a new swine flu virus that sickened eight in the southern US.
The World Health Organization's head flew urgently to Geneva to oversee the agency's handling of the outbreak.
Margaret Chan curtailed her visit to Washington to return to WHO's headquarters where an emergency committee would likely convene in the coming hours.
The WHO said it had prepared "rapid containment measures" in case they were needed.
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"We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human. It's all hands on deck at the moment."
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Right now, there is a warning of swine flu second wave. I had no idea yet what it's, but I always keep my body warm and strong. That should help.
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I like reading summaries of the swine flu to see it come to and end. It went on for a very long time!
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Submitted by Golf Blog (not verified) on 4 September, 2009 - 21:57.
I'm not sure the "swine flu" is as dangerous as claimed... I read that most people have it and don't even know, they just have "flu" like symptoms (go figure). It seems to be more dangerous in countries that don't have proper medical care.
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Submitted by Wholesale Lingerie (not verified) on 31 July, 2009 - 20:54.
Swine flu is getting more dangerous day by day.One fact about the Swine flu is very true and that's - when one child dies of malnutrition every five seconds and the more people die of hunger in three minutes than have so far died of swine flu. Which is certainly true.So just imagine what this flu is turning out to be?
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Submitted by Erase Bad Credit (not verified) on 31 July, 2009 - 10:48.
Yah,I also heard that many people dieing of this new flu and it really feels very bad.People should stop eating swine meet until this whole trouble goes away.
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Submitted by Ray Ban Wayfarer (not verified) on 30 July, 2009 - 14:31.
Swine flu is completely a new type of flu which no one has suffered before.This disease is spreading now at a very steady rate and most important thing is that people are dieing of this flu in different parts of the world.Although experiments are going on to block the virus from infecting human body,but lots of awareness is necessary now than medication for this disease.
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Submitted by Exotic Lingerie (not verified) on 29 July, 2009 - 14:38.
We have heard that most of the people are dieing of swine flu in the most part of the world. The swine flu has become more dangerous for human now. Most of the people are dieing of many other regular flu as well.But swine flu is on the initial level of spreading so it's our duty to aware people about this so they can do their best to stay safe.
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Submitted by Wholesale Perfume (not verified) on 27 July, 2009 - 11:04.
Actually swine flu is a new thing although it's spreading at a good pace.Most people are dieing of many other regular flu,so swine flu hasn't turned into a big deal now but we have already heard of people dieing of this swine flu in most parts of the world.So it has become a responsibility and a duty too to let people aware of this so they can try their best to stay safe.
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Submitted by Adam (not verified) on 5 July, 2009 - 16:56.
Is obviously going to hit a lot more people over the next couple of months.
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Submitted by nutrifolica (not verified) on 20 May, 2009 - 21:37.
It's no big deal. The CDC estimates that 36,000 people die each year as the result of regular flu. Very few people have died from swine flu, but it's all people can talk about. It's an overhyped phenomenon, a distorted perspective caused by media sensationalism.
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Submitted by Mindi Schneider (not verified) on 1 May, 2009 - 12:55.
Hi Raj,
Here's another piece on swine flu from Narco News in Latin America:
How “The NAFTA Flu” Exploded
Smithfield Farms Fled US Environmental Laws to Open a Gigantic Pig Farm in Mexico, and All We Got Was this Lousy Swine Flu
By Al Giordano
http://www.narconews.com/Issue57/article3512.html
Similar info to the other pieces you have linked here,but yet another perpspective...
Cheers.
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