Religious Bigotry in Egypt Swine Cull?— Ya Think??
An item from here:
Egyptian authorities have ordered a mass cull of that nation's swine as an anti-swine flu protection measure.
Trouble is, all the pigs are farmed (understandably) by the nation's Coptic Christian minority. Unlike the Muslim majority, Copts do not see the animals as unclean.
And there is no public health reason for Egypt to kill these 400,000 animals!
Excerpt:
"Our pigs are healthy. They are our capital and they have no diseases," said Adel Ishak, who feeds his pigs from the rubbish he collects in Manshiet Nasser, northeast of Cairo.
"We remind Hosni Mubarak that we are all Egyptians. Where does he want us to go?" added 46-year-old Gergis Faris, another pig farmer. "We are uneducated people, just living day by day and trying to make a living, and now if our pigs are taken from us without compensation, how are we supposed to live?"
How indeed? Or does that matter to the government and the Muslim majority of Egypt?
posted by john
this link (where the comments are as well)
on 1:21 AM
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A newspaper reported yesterday that the Muslim Brotherhood had criticised the decision, and also that the government was planning to pay compensation of $100 a pig.
Just another example of the media-hyped swine flu panic. Perhaps they should have called it Mexican Flu instead, by analogy with Spanish and Hong Kong flu, though no doubt someone would then suggest the solution of nuking Mexico.
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