It’s a matter of concentration of wastes. In the past, like when I was a kid, hog farms were not 100,000 strong.

It’s the same with medicines …. the right dosage can heal, a slightly higher concentration of the same chemical compounds will kill.

And I swing my own hams. And cure my own bacon.

Hogs one at a time are not a problem. But try to imagine a city of 300,000 pouring their waste effluvia on fields and streams and catchement ponds. Every day. That’s what a 100,000 hog facility is like.

BIG is the problem. Big government, Big transportation, Big oil, Big finance, Bog insurance, Big medicine, Big education, Big religion, Big labor, Big politics … etc etc etc ….BIG is the problem.

1. This is a disinformation and misinformation campaign waged by highly skilled PR professionals against SMITHFIELD. A company I have no love for, but facts are facts that SMITHFIELD is being singled out for a disinformation campaign. This pogrom against SMITHFIELD began several years ago and even Paula Dean has taken enormous flak for sticking up for SMITHFIELD products.

2. The ‘raison d’tre’ of this campaign against SMITHFIELD (a) originates in the size and prominence of SMITHFIELD as the leading operator of ‘confined animal production facilities’ and (b) because of SMITHFIELD’s refusal to cooperate with state and federal officials in cleaning up their act.

3. The ’cause’ of the PR campaign against confined animal facilities finds its origins in North Carolina, where swine factories were responsible for setting loose piscaderia pfisteria … a flesh eating and central nervous system destroying bacteria present in swine excrement.

4. North Carolina legislators were caught red handed rigging state laws to favor this industry to such a degree that not only did it become against the law to inspect these animal factories with 100,000+ higs , it became against the law for even the Feds to inquire about their location or to inspect them.

5. Hogs produce 3x – 5x as much effluent as a man or woman, and where civilization has gone to great lengths in funding and developing civic sewage systems for sanitation and public health, there are no laws on the books in the states that favor hog factories dealing with the outflow of swine sewage … in amounts that stagger the imagination. Consequently there have been massive public health risks we are only now beginning to uncover. Naturally, the media has been complicit where staggering profits have made lagislators rich.

6. There’s a verifiable, documented and indisputable 7,000 sq mile dead-zone where the Mississippi meets the Gulf traceable directly back to hog factories. Immense overloads of nitrogen and chemicals. This unregulated outflow can and has caused spontaneous abortions amongst other environmental atrocities along with spinal, neural and nervous system diseases and traumas along with elevated risks to infant and nursing mother health.

Someone, very clever in the media and in media manipulation, has tied the swine flu epidemic to the cause celebre’ of confined animal production facilities.

It ain’t necessarily so … but the danger of swine factories cannot be over-stated.

So, you may correctly conclude that this report is part and parcel of the old mafia standby … the protection racket Jesse Jackson has learned so well. Pay me and I’ll lay off the PR campaign that’s damaging you and your stock value. But at the same time confined animal facilities are truly hideous health hazards … so this is really like two great criminal enterprises whacking away at each other.

She was just here yesterday ….

After all, if it’s good enough for Bo-Bo….it’s good enough for meh-hee-co.

For without those factors, there would be no pig farms, and no opportunity to lie about them.

And the Mexican peasants would be happily squatting on dirt floors of their grass shacks, free of the shackles of the modern world, dieing in their 30’s, and none the wiser.

Kind of like we will be doing in America if the TMCC gets its way.