Swine flu - is factory farming the culprit?

[nogerdsurg]

This is so sad. Pigs are very intelligent, and clean animals. They only use mud and dirt to cool off because they don't have sweat glands. Their snouts are very sensitive to strong bad odors, and they get respiratory infections from smelling the strong foul smell of amonia in urine. How miserable for these animals which are as intelligent as 4yr olds! As awful as these conditions are, they are not as bad as the confining farrowing & gestational crates, where they can't walk or turn around.

[famouseli]

ffs everytime i look at stuff like this i wanne put people in cells like that... and see how they react

[jaymrob99]

bull shit...

[ashadale]

gross

[CIWFFOOTAGE]

This short film demonstrates how pigs are kept in industrial farms in the EU. The majority of our pork and bacon is reared in these lower welfare systems.

Is this where the current swine fever pandemic originiated? It is too soon to say...

However, what we can be sure of is that the conditions in these farms raise the ability of disease to spread rapidly and in each shed there are multiple opportunities for the viruses to mutate as they move from pig to pig.

[CieloMarinaris]

CDC Confirms Ties to Virus First Discovered in U.S. Pig Factories

A preliminary analysis of the H1N1 swine flu virus isolated from human cases in California and Texas reveals that six of the eight viral gene segments arose from North American swine flu strains circulating since 1998, when a new strain was first identified on a factory farm in North Carolina

H1N1 pandemic flu originated via Factory Meat Farms!

Confirmed by CDC!