CEO Pope (Smithfeild corp) discusses Pig operation in Mexico on TV

[opihimoimoi]

Sez there is no connection between Pigs and H1N1......defends their operation.....

He never mentions those Fece Ponds where the waste is piped to....there them nuitrients will build to the point of being putrid and be a breeding ground for who knows what....

In and operation from shrimps, fishes, cattle, chickens....waste is a factor....to allow pollution to grow and lefty unattended..is asking for troubles.

Ask them shrimp farmers who have to contend w White Spot, Tara, etc

or, them fish farmers who experience Odinium out breaks from time to time.....

Waste will produce conditions for BLOOMs of Pathogens.....

The CEO Pope was putting on a good face but only on pig human consumption, etc....but ignoring the waste factor....

He is trying to distance his pigs from the H1N1.....But I smell pig shit despite the lipstick

[damntexdem]

1. Well, if the CEO of the company says the company didn't do it, it must be true.

LOL!

[robdogbucky]

2. Remnds me

of one of the new patients depicted on the HBO series, In Treatment.

Walter Burnett is CEO of a multi-national conglomerate that had an outbreak of contaminated baby formula.

He lost his job on this week's episode due to the incident happening on his watch and the company's stock put in jeopardy, and the character's wife has him on a suicide watch.

Gotta remember any CEO is not interested in the public's safety, or the facts, or truth, or anything not related to his shareholders' continued profits and his own golden parachute. If anything we have learned that much over recent years.

Life imitates art.


robdogbucky

[opihimoimoi]

3. I guess we gatta take his word.....LOL....my gut feeling : he was lying thru his teeth...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. There is no connection between his farm, pigs, and the flu.

"He never mentions those Fece Ponds where the waste is piped to....there them nuitrients will build to the point of being putrid and be a breeding ground for who knows what...."

While bacteria may breed in sewage lagoons, I'm pretty sure flu viruses don't.

[opihimoimoi]

5. The first cases were from areas in close proximity to the waste ponds, piggeries

from various reports....

[northernlights]

6. viruses don't live in feces

Actually, viruses aren't technically alive. They are dna wrapped in protein and only remain intact temporarily outside of a proper host.

Viruses depend on the host's cellular metabolism-- in particular its ribosomes (protein-making factories) -- to reproduce and infect other cells.

Feces don't have cells or metabolism or ribosomes, so viruses don't "live" in them. And while there are viruses that infect bacteria cells, which do flourish in feces, swine viruses are not them. The reason H1N1 is called swine flu is because swine are its reservoir, not bacteria.

H1N1 viruses have to be inside a swine -- or, now, a human -- in order to pseudo-live and reproduce.

[Howardx]

7. does an infected pig

excrete the virus?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. By coughing.

Just like people.

[Howardx]

10. so...

people living in close proximity to a large number of pigs would have a larger chance of getting any such virus. thanks for confirming.

[opihimoimoi]

9. All I am suggesting is the close proximity to them waste ponds..there is something

to seriesly to look at....

[Geek_Girl]

12. It may not have to do with the waste ponds but I bet people from the swine factory

picked up the virus from pigs.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. And now we see in whose intrest it is to makeover the SWINE FLU into the "H1N1"

They are morbidly afraid if more people learn about the filth and the destruction created by their greed, they'll demand better environmental standards for both the humans and the pigs.

[opihimoimoi]

13. Esp if the wastes are rendered harmless...the Farm should be Green, eco friendly

[Maru Kitteh]

14. I'll bet it smells just llike roses and it cures cancer too.

That's the ticket.