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            <title>Comment #1 by enviroperk</title>
			<link>http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-30-cdc-swine-strain/</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:20:17 -0700</pubDate>
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				<p>Hi Tom,</p><p>I am not sure where you are going with this. I have carefully read what you have posted but I can't find your conclusion anywhere but the possibly in the headlines.Â </p><p>I think your first post on this indicated that the company (SmithField) Â that 50% owns and effectively controls the swine cluster of big stinky swine factories around the first confirmed case was responsible for this Swine Flu Â outbreak and new strain. Further, that blowflies were transmitting the virus from infected hogs in the farm. (I disagreed strongly about a blowfly vector of Influenza)</p><p>Your second post appears to provide mostly information about the evils of Smithfield and good points about just how nasty the operations are. Not sure at this point if you are still blaming the Mexican Smithfield operation for the new Swine Flu or not. ( I agreed that type of swine production should be banned, but NOT for the influenza evidence you present )</p><p>The last couple of posts do not really say what the point is, but do say that the Swine Flu is coming from swine (not a big surprise here) and that swine farms are to blame for the 1998 US outbreak, which is genetically linked to this outbreak. So I think you are saying that infected US swine (from 1998 ooutbreak?) was shipped to Mexico by Smithfield and those hogs incubated the current H1N1 in the horrendous conditions of the hog farms?</p><p>Is your point now that the Swine Flu comes from only corporate swine farms?</p><p>Or swine farms in general?</p><p>Or does it just come from swine?Â </p><p>To state your conclusion(s) based on the information you presented would help me better understand the point you Â are trying to illustrate.</p><p>Though I have a problem with Â picking and choosing information that fits a predetermined conclusion and calling it investigation or research, I can see you have put a lot of effort into these posts to make a point. It will help us poor readers if you spell out the point</p><p>Thanks Tom.</p>
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				<p>Hi Tom,</p><p>I am not sure where you are going with this. I have carefully read what you have posted but I can't find your conclusion anywhere but the possibly in the headlines.Â </p><p>I think your first post on this indicated that the company (SmithField) Â that 50% owns and effectively controls the swine cluster of big stinky swine factories around the first confirmed case was responsible for this Swine Flu Â outbreak and new strain. Further, that blowflies were transmitting the virus from infected hogs in the farm. (I disagreed strongly about a blowfly vector of Influenza)</p><p>Your second post appears to provide mostly information about the evils of Smithfield and good points about just how nasty the operations are. Not sure at this point if you are still blaming the Mexican Smithfield operation for the new Swine Flu or not. ( I agreed that type of swine production should be banned, but NOT for the influenza evidence you present )</p><p>The last couple of posts do not really say what the point is, but do say that the Swine Flu is coming from swine (not a big surprise here) and that swine farms are to blame for the 1998 US outbreak, which is genetically linked to this outbreak. So I think you are saying that infected US swine (from 1998 ooutbreak?) was shipped to Mexico by Smithfield and those hogs incubated the current H1N1 in the horrendous conditions of the hog farms?</p><p>Is your point now that the Swine Flu comes from only corporate swine farms?</p><p>Or swine farms in general?</p><p>Or does it just come from swine?Â </p><p>To state your conclusion(s) based on the information you presented would help me better understand the point you Â are trying to illustrate.</p><p>Though I have a problem with Â picking and choosing information that fits a predetermined conclusion and calling it investigation or research, I can see you have put a lot of effort into these posts to make a point. It will help us poor readers if you spell out the point</p><p>Thanks Tom.</p>
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