Pigs and people are dying.

Their deaths are related.

You can help stop it.

Go vegan.

Now, four topics related to the Swine Flu.
Please spread the word.

1. Eating pork is dangerous.
   • Vegetarians and vegans have lower rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity than non-veg*ns. (source, source2, source3)
   • Most food borne illness stems from animal products. Examples: e coli, salmonella, and campylobacter, (source)
   • It is possible that Swine Flu can be spread the same way as e coli, salmonella, and campylocater: from improper food handling. The World Health Organization states: “The influenza A(H1N1) virus is killed by cooking temperatures of 160°F/70°C, corresponding to the general guidance for the preparation of pork and other meat.” (source) All announcements about the “safety of pork” have included the requirement of “proper food handling,” indicating that transmission of Swine Flu is possible through eating contaminated pork products.
2. Factory farming breeds disease.
   • Crowded spaces and poor hygiene spread disease.
     “[I]ntensive industrial scale livestock operations are fertile ground for viruses to mutate,” says Johns Hopkins Public Health Professor Ellen Silbergeld (source). The Pew Charitable Trusts says, “the crowded and often unhygienic conditions of many industrial farms facilitate transfer of bacteria and infection” (source).
   • More info here:
     • The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
     • The CDCl’s Public Health Concerns of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
     • Food and Water Watch’s Factory Farms Section
3. We must use good hygiene.
   • Wash your hands. And wash your food.
4. We must respond appropriately.
   • We should be cautious, not panicked, but not asleep at the switch either. The swine flu is real, it’s spreading, and regardless of the outcome, we can’t gamble with human lives.
   • We must take the threat seriously. Failure to respond appropriately kills people. We must:
     • encourage good hygiene,
     • abolish factory farms.

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