Pig for food: Resurrect an old article (by Budak I think)

[barmby]

Swine flu - No joke. Everything may cancel and the whole economy may tumble. Here is below:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...orst_polluters

Read this if it interest you:

Accordingly, factory pigs are infused with a huge range of antibiotics and vaccines, and are doused with insecticides. Without these compounds -- oxytetracycline, draxxin, ceftiofur, tiamulin -- diseases would likely kill them. Thus factory-farm pigs remain in a state of dying until they're slaughtered. When a pig nearly ready to be slaughtered grows ill, workers sometimes shoot it up with as many drugs as necessary to get it to the slaughterhouse under its own power. As long as the pig remains ambulatory, it can be legally killed and sold as meat.

[Sharefish]

Yucks. But its the same as most of the food we eat these days right? I bought Mcwings that day and they were short (in length) but FAT FAT FAT...so wide, it was scary. If you picture the chicken they came from, its just not possible.

But I am so used to chemically infused food that when I tried Kampong Chicken, I couldn't eat it cos it smelt weird!

Its so scary. I realise that I have never heard of anyone's grandparents and greatgrandparents getting cancer - they just died of old age. But now, all these new diseases are here. I wish I had space to grow my own food.