re: #242 Walter L. Newton

The world is going fucking crazy…

U.S. officials want ‘swine’ out of flu name

At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the “H1N1 virus.”

“This is not a food-borne illness, virus. It is not correct to refer to it as swine flu because really that’s not what this is about,” Vilsack said. Israel has already rejected the name swine flu, and opted to call it “Mexico flu.” Jewish dietary laws forbid eating pork.

The Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health also objected to the name, saying the virus contains avian and human components and no pig so far has been found ill with the disease.

[Link: www.alertnet.org…]

Ha, pork, the other viral meat.

I love that, “no pig so far”, I think that will be the title of my next novel, the story of a modern man, trapped in a city he never made, and the happy pigs who say it isn’t their fault.

So, why isn’t there a Jewish law forbidding the flu? Wouldn’t that solve a lot of problems? I mean, sheesh.