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aruarian_dancer

I don't know how much longer this will be up...

Apr 29, 2009 15:56

We've watched the news and seen online headlines about the Swine Flu. Here's something that's (refreshingly) different from what the mainstream media dishes out.

Not everyone is into conspiracy theories. I'm just one of these people who think anything is possible -- including some seriously disturbing things. And yeah, I was a big X-files fan, I'll ( Read more... )

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theamazingfetus April 29 2009, 23:00:31 UTC

The swine flu is so dissapionting. I was hoping for atleast a zombie apocalypse.

aruarian_dancer April 29 2009, 23:15:33 UTC

We get spoiled from movies like Resident Evil and I Am Legend. XD

keelieinblack April 30 2009, 01:05:08 UTC

Forget stockpiling, this would be a perfect plot for the Umbrella Corporation er, some upstanding pharmaceutical company to lace any vaccine with their brand new zombification/mind-control/eventually-turns-you-evil drug! Millions of 'willing' test subjects!

...um, or not. XD I may have seen too many X-Files episodes as well.

aruarian_dancer April 30 2009, 01:51:04 UTC

Alice will save us all!

laurabryannan April 30 2009, 05:08:59 UTC

Sadly, I wonder if the truth is XFiles worthy. I saw this up on usenet today, part of a larger article:

Despite company denials, a number of Mexican and U.S. news outlets are pointing to Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pig producer ($12 billion in annual sales), as a likely source of the deadly outbreak. Smithfield sells pork and operates massive hog-raising operations in 40 nations, including Perote, Mexico, in the state of Vera Cruz, where the outbreak originated. For months, local residents and workers in Mexico have complained of pollution, contamination, and illnesses from the Smithfield plant. For years, Smithfield has been criticized in the United States for polluting rural communities, endangering public health, and exploiting workers and farmers.

According to the article, they've also been criticized for over-use of antibiotics, possibly breeding strains of antibiotic-resistant bugs.

aruarian_dancer April 30 2009, 05:52:15 UTC

Hey, they had an x-file like that about a chicken farm!! XD

aruarian_dancer April 30 2009, 14:32:30 UTC

Meat and poultry industry's heavy use of antibiotics and hormones has been criticized for many years for the same things Smithfiled has been criticized for in the quote.

And here's another kind of conspiracy within the "pork industry". Smithfiled lists awards for social and environmental responsibility....
*American Meat Institute -- 54 facilities in 23 states were given enviromental recoginition awards.
*Governor's Environmental Excellence Award -- Virginia
*FORTUNE magazine's "Most Admired Companies" for 6 consecutive years
*FTSE4Good's ranking of Socially Reponsible Companies
They are successfully covering up and quieting the small people by somehow managing to arrange themselves into position to win those to present a "good face" to the public -- all in the name of mighty dollar. I guess we'll need Erin Brockovich on this case.

There were 15 pharmaceutical companies that generated revenues larger than that of the world's largest pig producer in 2008.

catssyclaws April 30 2009, 06:05:26 UTC

When this first started getting recognition in the news the only thing my housemate said in response was... "Remember the good old days of Bird Flu and West Nile..." lol He's such a dork. X\

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catssyclaws May 1 2009, 04:41:50 UTC

It's just the latest craze in illness. Whatever's new is whatever's popular. Be damned to anyone else who has one of the older, worn-out sicknesses. It just really amazes me. I'm not saying this Swine flu or whatever it really is isn't something to watch out for.... but it'll be old soon enough and next we'll have Dog flu or or Cat flu! I'm just waiting. lol

aruarian_dancer May 1 2009, 06:09:28 UTC

Oh yeah, they'd love canine flu or feline flu. XD

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bftly April 30 2009, 16:20:10 UTC

Just saw a front page article telling people to stockpile enough food and water for at least 14 days and to keep emergency numbers at hand - seriously... this is a ridiculous attempt just to make us buy more so we can stimulate the economy isn't it? X)

But seriously... the media bombardment of swine flu stuff is starting a global brain-washing experiment isn't it - GAHHHH *flees from fear of swine flu*

aruarian_dancer April 30 2009, 16:35:46 UTC

Stockpiling of food and water was listed on CDC's "what you can do to prepare yourself" section on their swine flu page -- although that was the last on the list. The fact the patient zero in Mexico is alive and kicking should calm some nerves. The symptoms from this flu do repond to antibiotics. The high number of deaths in Mexico has not been confirmed...

The media is guilty of scare tactics. This happened with AIDS, Ebola, West Nile, avian flu, mad cow desease... did I cover most all recent ones?

Who knows? Like you said, maybe the suggestion to stockpile food and water is the administration's brilliant idea of an economic stimulus plan. Not to mention the medical bills and prescriptions.