permaculture

[Thomas Allen <thallen@nwlink.com>]

More background found at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-carlsen/mexicos-swine-flu-and- 
the_b_193239.html

On Apr 29, 2009, at 9:45 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:

> No surprise here....
>
> Ban Factory Farms Spreading Deadly Flu
>
> Despite years of warnings by public interest organizations such as  
> the Organic Consumers Association and the Humane Society of the U.S.,
> intensive confinement factory farms are incubating deadly viruses  
> that could set off a deadly epidemic. A dangerous and rapidly  
> spreading
> strain of influenza, which combines genetic material from pigs,  
> birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before, has  
> killed over
> 150 people in Mexico, infecting thousands, and has spread to over a  
> dozen countries, including the United States. President Obama himself
> may have been exposed to the disease, according to the New York  
> Times, given that a Mexican official, Felipe Solis, he met with  
> last week
> subsequently died with flu-like symptoms.
> snip------------------------------------------>