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Trunnell states that "there may be evidence which links the creation of the newest strain of the deadly swine flu...with Smithfield Foods’ humongous pig farm operation in Mexico, which, under the joint control of Smithfield Foods, has been allowed to lapse into a breeding ground of immense unsanitary proportions for a deadly virus"."” There is sound scientific literature to support such an hypothesis. It has been there for quite some time, but no one until now has ever dared challenge the meat barons. This is the first legal action of its kind, and it may create a precedent capable of changing the face of modern civilisation and force us to face the real man- made threats instead of wasting billions of dollars in a senseless virus hunt. After all, small initiatives can bring about big changes. This is an age in which values have to be reinstituted. If life has value, then meat as a direct product of life should also posses nutritional, aesthetic, financial and "moral" value. We can no longer afford profit-mongering with what we eat. We can no longer afford cheap meat. In fact, we need pricey, valuable meat. It is, after all, part of what we are made of. And no one wants to be considered as made of "crap". About the Author: Peter Arguriou studied medicine at the University of Athens Medical School but left disappointed with the mechanistic perceptions governing medicine. Later, he briefly studied classical homoeopathy at the Aegean University under Alternative Nobel Prize winner George Vithoulkas. He is a member of Hellenic MENSA. Arguriou writes for the Greek press and is the author of 0 books (fiction, science fiction, poetry—most of them still unpublished). His book Bad Medicine: an eon of medical corruption is due for publication in Greece in 2010. He is working on a book project involving alternative ealth experts from around the world, which is intended © be a practical survival guide in the modern medical wilderness and provide a philosophical background to a science that has become shallow. His article "The Placebo Effect: The Triumph of Mind Over Body" was published in NEXUS vol. 14, no. 4 in 2007. Peter Arguriou can be contacted by email at petrosarguriou@hotmail.com. Endnotes story/0,2933,174316,00.html 1. Tierney, John, "In '80s, Fear Spread Faster Than AIDS", 11. Moscona, Anne, "Oseltamivir Resistance — The New York Times, June 15, 2001 Disabling Our Influenza Defenses [Perspective], New 2. Laurance, Jeremy, "Threat of world Aids pandemic England Journal of Medicine 2005; 353(25):2633-36, among heterosexuals is over, report admits", The http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/35 3/25/2633 Independent on Sunday, 8 June 2008 12. McNeil Jr, Donald G., "Major Flu Strain Found 3. Nadel, Laurie, "With Lobsters Scarce, Questions Resistant to Leading Drug, Puzzling Scientists", The New Abound", The New York Times, December 9, 2001 York Times, January 8, 2009, http:/Avww.nytimes.com/ 4. WHO, "Cumulative Number of Confirmed Human 2009/0 1/09/health/09flu.html?ref=health Cases of Avian Influenza A (H5N1) reported to WHO", | 13. Mellon, M. et al., Hogging It!: Estimates of Antimicrobial July 2009, http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ Abuse in Livestock, Union of Concerned Scientists avian_influenza/country/cases_table_2009_07_01/ Publications, Cambridge, MA, January 2001 en/index.html 14. Campagnolo, E.R. et al., "Antimicrobial residues in 5. WHO, "Influenza", Fact Sheet No. 211, April 2009 animal waste and water resources proximal to large- 6. 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Tuckman, J. and Booth, R., "Four-year-old could hold Vaccine and Guillain-Barré Sundrome: A Case Study in ey in search for source of swine flu outbreak", The Relative Risk and Specific Causation", 15 August 1999, Guardian, 27 April 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/ ttp://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~census/546.pdf world/2009/apr/27/swine-flu-search-outbreak-source 9. Schwartz, Nelson D., "Rumsfeld's growing stake in 16. ibid. famiflu", Fortune, October 31, 2005 17. Shlian, Deborah, "Swine flu related lawsuit and 10. “Is the US Ready for an Avian Flu Pandemic?", updates", http://www.examiner.com/x-9303-Miami- interview with Mike Leavitt by Brit Hume on 1 Health-Care-Examiner~y2009m5d20-Swine-flu-related- November |, 2005, Fox News, http://origin.foxnews.com/ —_ lawsuit-and-updates 14 ¢ NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2009