Why is the mainstream media covering up the truth about the swine flu epidemic?
It’s obvious that the real reason for the epidemic is factory farming. Massive hog operations are incubators for disease and they are the source of this virus. Much has been made of the fact that Edgar Hernandez, the five-year-old boy dubbed “patient zero,” lived near a big hog farm operated by U.S. company Smithfield Foods. But the fact remains the source of the new virus is not yet known – it could be a big farm, a small farm, or from a single pig in someone’s backyard. Remember, too, that little Edgar had the first laboratory confirmed case of A/H1N1 influenza; it’s highly unlikely he was the first person infected. And, unlike bird flu, the source is not particularly important as people are not contracting the illness from swine, but from other people. That being said, it is worth addressing the broader issue raised – the impact of large-scale commercial farming on human health. David Waltner-Toews, author of Food, Sex and Salmonella, notes that “factory farming” is a largely meanin
