The swine fall down…

[jrittenhouse]

A different perspective, as pig farmers are finding out that the swine flu may not kill them, but it’s doing a lot of damage to their pigs…or rather, that people are scared to buy pork and catch That Really Big Disease.

“We’re heading for a wreck,” said Simon Goodwin, a pig farmer in Alberta, where a herd infected with the new influenza AH1N1

Comments

[johnridley]

I still find it astounding that this is happening. Did people stop eating chicken when the avian flu was threatening? Did they stop eating Spaniards in 1918?

[tceisele]

Actually, I think I remember a lot of people did stop eating chicken in the avian flu panic. And the market for Spaniard meat hasn't recovered even now. At least, I can't find it in any of the local supermarkets.

[stevemb]

Wake me up when the price of pork goes down at the supermarket.